"but sometimes i long to be landlocked and to work in a bakery."
yay! no more presentations of dramatic, hair-tearing DOOM! they're over! finished!... at least for now...
so, as a reward, i splurged on a tall mocha frappuccino (or whatever they call those things) from starbucks. it made me slightly insalubrious when i got home... but that's neither here nor there.
anyways, a---l, j---e and i sauntered around in the mall for a while with my backpack (more precisely the two dvds k-- let me borrow) that kept making all of the security gates in the stores go off. how embarrassing! ah well, i'm wired right now even though i only got about 4 or 5 hours of sleep last night. being giddy is a heck of a lot better than the wretched, griping mood i was in the past couple of weeks (my apologies to anyone who got in the way of my homework-induced wrath).
later on we progressed to the jewish public library to scope out their cd collection (for our subject analysis project...errr... yay?). there was a book cart with a bundle of donated books that didn't follow the collection policy of the library, so we browsed through those. i was delighted to discover a book called the victorian mind for a mere $2. it has essays by major victorians (dickens, hardy, arnold, eliot, thackeray, ruskin, morris, tennyson, rossetti, wilde and many more) on education, social welfare, religion, science and art. sure, the book is from 1969 but i daresay the writing style hasn't changed that much from then to now ;). i can't wait until i'll have time to read it!
speaking of cheap books... i'm getting very excited about going to the vpl book sale on friday after finishing two grueling midterms. i'm looking for peter s. beagle's the last unicorn, any books of poetry by archibald lampman and one of those huge dictionaries with nearly every word in the english language.
reminder to self: bring a couple heavy duty tote bags.
i just hope i don't bump into creepy phil there like i did last year *shudders*
anyways! happy thoughts! i'd better get to studying. but first:
so yeah, e---- is in the class where we had to do our presentations today. the presentations were supposed to be no more than 15 minutes long. she was working with two other people.
anyways, her part ended up being 15 minutes (the whole presentation was 25 minutes in total). her part of the powerpoint presentation was all small writing crammed onto slides in point form although each point was about a paragraph long. she just read from the slides, her back turned to the audience, and had no eye contact with anybody except maybe a quick glance at the teacher. she was supposed to be talking about dvds but went off on a tangent about microfiche and the bpl's special collection. it was terribly irrelevant to what she was supposed to be talking about.
she totally contradicted herself as well. two memorable points being that she said they were going to acquire the passion of the christ on dvd for the library and later she said that they wouldn't get anything rated higher than pg-13... hmmm... what's the passion rated then? general? i think not! her second contradiction was that she said they would obtain historically accurate videos like a knight's tale and ever after... i really had to make a conscious effort to bite my tongue there.
i try not to whisper cheeky comments to my friends when she's up there. it's rather difficult not to, i know, but i find it's quite rude and possibly distracting to her if i do - no matter how horrible a presentation it is. i shall make a conscious effort from now on not to whisper during other people's presentations. heaven knows everybody else in the room has already picked up on the blatant errors that have been spoken. i shall only vent out my frustrations here in this convenient little lj cut! really, don't mind me... i did warn you!
that's all for now.
cheers and goodwill!