wasting another night on plannin' my revenge
All this time to make amends
What do you do when all your enemies are friends
Now and then I'll try to bend
Under pressure wind up snapping in the end
One in ten, One in ten, One in ten
Don't want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your monkey wrench
One last thing before I quit
I never wanted any more than I could fit
Into my head I still remember every single word
You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there's one thing that comforts me since I was
Always caged and now I'm free
----
I've always kinda thought that "Monkey Wrench" was the quintessential break-up song, in terms of "I am better off without you and you never deserved me anyway." But don't get any ideas about this being related to my personal life - Kev and I are great :P
I made straight As this semester, even in Japanese. Yay! The paper that I turned in late even got an A-. Now I'm doing research for the paper for China; I'm thinking of going to the library on campus tomorrow. I need some articles and a new stack of books, better focused on my topic.
Mom and Rachel are coming down here the weekend of the 21st, which is awesome. I'm very excited to get to show them our apartment and all, and Mom will get to meet Kevin's mom, which is good.
I bought Mists of Avalon this past weekend. I've read literally dozens of versions of the Arthurian mythos, but I've never read Marion Zimmer Bradley's. A lot of people are surprised to find that out, but honestly I don't care for religion to get mixed into my hero legends. Avalon and Morgan's appeal for me has always been based in magic, not Goddess worship, so Bradley's writing (based on what I've heard of it) has not really drawn me. So far, I'm about 30 pages into it, and I'm feeling very neutral. I've flat-out never read a version of King Arthur's story that I didn't enjoy at least a bit, because I love the story itself so much. So it's hard for me to say that I don't think a book or story is good if it incorporates that legend; I have to somehow separate the elements distinct to the author from the elements inherent to the mythos. So far, I am not very impressed with Bradley's elements. I am, however, just getting started, so I'm trying to keep an open mind. I'm fairly amused, too, that once again there's a version of Morgause who annoys the piss out of me. Morgause and Guenevere (or however we're spelling her name at any given moment) both irritate me, in every literary incarnation I've ever encountered. But Guenevere grates on me in a moral way - she screws over Camelot for what? For kicks? Lancelot annoys me for exactly the same reason, not to mention his smug, self-righteous son, Galahad the Snotty. Rar. Sometimes I think I'm too invested in these stories to read them properly, but I just can't stay away from Morgan, Merlin, Viviane, and Avalon. Not to mention Arthur himself, and lovely Bran in one of my favorite versions, Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series. I'm sure I'll have more to say about this once I get a bit further into it, so I'll go back to my reading now.
Oh! But before I do, I ran a mile in 10 minutes today. I think I'm going to try and do it again tomorrow. I worked an overnight last night, so I slept in crazy late today, and by the time I had gotten up and eaten and was ready to go running, it was 87 degrees outside. I just couldn't do three miles in that. I'm not entirely sure what kind of routine I'll be following for the rest of the summer, but I'll figure something out.
What do you do when all your enemies are friends
Now and then I'll try to bend
Under pressure wind up snapping in the end
One in ten, One in ten, One in ten
Don't want to be your monkey wrench
One more indecent accident
I'd rather leave than suffer this
I'll never be your monkey wrench
One last thing before I quit
I never wanted any more than I could fit
Into my head I still remember every single word
You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there's one thing that comforts me since I was
Always caged and now I'm free
----
I've always kinda thought that "Monkey Wrench" was the quintessential break-up song, in terms of "I am better off without you and you never deserved me anyway." But don't get any ideas about this being related to my personal life - Kev and I are great :P
I made straight As this semester, even in Japanese. Yay! The paper that I turned in late even got an A-. Now I'm doing research for the paper for China; I'm thinking of going to the library on campus tomorrow. I need some articles and a new stack of books, better focused on my topic.
Mom and Rachel are coming down here the weekend of the 21st, which is awesome. I'm very excited to get to show them our apartment and all, and Mom will get to meet Kevin's mom, which is good.
I bought Mists of Avalon this past weekend. I've read literally dozens of versions of the Arthurian mythos, but I've never read Marion Zimmer Bradley's. A lot of people are surprised to find that out, but honestly I don't care for religion to get mixed into my hero legends. Avalon and Morgan's appeal for me has always been based in magic, not Goddess worship, so Bradley's writing (based on what I've heard of it) has not really drawn me. So far, I'm about 30 pages into it, and I'm feeling very neutral. I've flat-out never read a version of King Arthur's story that I didn't enjoy at least a bit, because I love the story itself so much. So it's hard for me to say that I don't think a book or story is good if it incorporates that legend; I have to somehow separate the elements distinct to the author from the elements inherent to the mythos. So far, I am not very impressed with Bradley's elements. I am, however, just getting started, so I'm trying to keep an open mind. I'm fairly amused, too, that once again there's a version of Morgause who annoys the piss out of me. Morgause and Guenevere (or however we're spelling her name at any given moment) both irritate me, in every literary incarnation I've ever encountered. But Guenevere grates on me in a moral way - she screws over Camelot for what? For kicks? Lancelot annoys me for exactly the same reason, not to mention his smug, self-righteous son, Galahad the Snotty. Rar. Sometimes I think I'm too invested in these stories to read them properly, but I just can't stay away from Morgan, Merlin, Viviane, and Avalon. Not to mention Arthur himself, and lovely Bran in one of my favorite versions, Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series. I'm sure I'll have more to say about this once I get a bit further into it, so I'll go back to my reading now.
Oh! But before I do, I ran a mile in 10 minutes today. I think I'm going to try and do it again tomorrow. I worked an overnight last night, so I slept in crazy late today, and by the time I had gotten up and eaten and was ready to go running, it was 87 degrees outside. I just couldn't do three miles in that. I'm not entirely sure what kind of routine I'll be following for the rest of the summer, but I'll figure something out.