Wicked tickets ... And those crazy pracs
Oh ... L also got our tickets to see Wicked! The only time left that still had four tickets availablewhen we could go is for the Thursday. Mind you we had to be split two and two - but that's okay. We're in the same row and whatever. It's not as though it matters because it is a show. I am so excited about it though !!!
*yawn* It's 9am and I am just ... I really don't feel up to anything today. But I feel kind of ... somewhat ... like I actually want to work on that 621 assignment. I should get a move on that anyways seeing as I also have the one for 630 due in two weeks. And another 630 assignment and stupid assignment for literacy plus whatever 621 thing due the week after.
I also want to get stuck into one of the two books I haven't started reading yet ... I have "Mirror, Mirror" by Gregory Maguire (which came with me all the way from Canada back at the end of January but have yet to crack open) and "Divisadero" by Michael Ondaatje (which I got in a package last month) to choose from. I don't know. I tried the first few pages of the latter sometime last week and haven't been able to get into it yet (some authors have that affect - like Dickens' "Great Expectations" - who could possibly get into a book that starts off "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of..."??? but they are still really great books to read). I also heard good reviews on it. And maybe I should save "Mirror, Mirror" because I am almost certain I will enjoy it. It's really funny, the first book I read by him was not "Wicked" but "The Ugly Stepsister". Both of them are awesome - but I am a bigger fan of "The Ugly Stepsister". I love "Wicked", don't get me wrong, but it felt like it took a bit for me to get into it. However, I love it because of how it so much epitomizes Nazi Germany and how perfectly you could look at it in a socio-histo-cultural perspective. The sequal to "Wicked" ("Son of A Witch") I still have in Canada and have been unable to finish it along with many other great books.
Books I have started but not finished (but am completely meaning to):
"The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
"Madame Bovary" by Gustauve Flaubert
"Son of a Witch" by Gregory Maguire
For whatever reason I just have not finished reading these books. The top two are ones I never finished because of work - too tired to continue. I worked full time at various jobs for a year and a half full time and different hours (some involved 6am-5pm shifts, others when the regular 9-5, another was 8-4). Although I enjoy these books - sometimes it is hard to read anything that does not move beyond academia or work because it drains you so much. It is really too bad, too, because I love literature.
But oh man! So excited! I am finding out my placement next week! Yay! I cannot wait ... But I'll have to. I had just better have got a placement in history. I don't care where I am as long as I get my major - as last time I only had my minor teaching area and another area which I have zero background in (as in I never ever took a class or had a lesson of it in my life - which was weird unto itself). I guess it is one thing to have a course where you haven't taken a class since high school and you are not that good at it - but completely another to have zero experience. I don't know, it was just crazy to be given a unit to teach and them doing a research project (you know ... because then they would ask so many questions and seeing as these were year 11s it is a high enough grade which I just couldn't).
Oh! Next week I am going to go whale watching in Hervey Bay! So excited!
And ... according to a paper from back home the PM is going to dissolve Parlaiment and call an election for October 14 - it is funny to think that we would have campaigning and an election in less then a month - compared to the Americans who have been already campaigning for about 19 months and won't have their election until November. It drives me crazy - and we get at least some coverage each day in Australia. I cannot imagine what it must be like for the Americans. It would drive me absolutely crazy. A "come on, let's get it over with - I can't handle it anymore!".
I am getting this sinking feeling that he has all ready left ... and has not called or anything. Then again, I have done a really really great job convincing myself ... I don't know what.
He isn't J ... He isn't J ... He isn't J. That would be cruel. And yet if he did call ... I would ask him why he's calling - but if I hear from him before, then it won't be for another few days. And I just don't want to give in. Everything is freaking me out ... And I just need to slow down.
PS I created a new community which is specifically for Shakespeare ... if anyone is interested in joining you can find it at ye_bard
*yawn* It's 9am and I am just ... I really don't feel up to anything today. But I feel kind of ... somewhat ... like I actually want to work on that 621 assignment. I should get a move on that anyways seeing as I also have the one for 630 due in two weeks. And another 630 assignment and stupid assignment for literacy plus whatever 621 thing due the week after.
I also want to get stuck into one of the two books I haven't started reading yet ... I have "Mirror, Mirror" by Gregory Maguire (which came with me all the way from Canada back at the end of January but have yet to crack open) and "Divisadero" by Michael Ondaatje (which I got in a package last month) to choose from. I don't know. I tried the first few pages of the latter sometime last week and haven't been able to get into it yet (some authors have that affect - like Dickens' "Great Expectations" - who could possibly get into a book that starts off "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of..."??? but they are still really great books to read). I also heard good reviews on it. And maybe I should save "Mirror, Mirror" because I am almost certain I will enjoy it. It's really funny, the first book I read by him was not "Wicked" but "The Ugly Stepsister". Both of them are awesome - but I am a bigger fan of "The Ugly Stepsister". I love "Wicked", don't get me wrong, but it felt like it took a bit for me to get into it. However, I love it because of how it so much epitomizes Nazi Germany and how perfectly you could look at it in a socio-histo-cultural perspective. The sequal to "Wicked" ("Son of A Witch") I still have in Canada and have been unable to finish it along with many other great books.
Books I have started but not finished (but am completely meaning to):
"The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky
"Madame Bovary" by Gustauve Flaubert
"Son of a Witch" by Gregory Maguire
For whatever reason I just have not finished reading these books. The top two are ones I never finished because of work - too tired to continue. I worked full time at various jobs for a year and a half full time and different hours (some involved 6am-5pm shifts, others when the regular 9-5, another was 8-4). Although I enjoy these books - sometimes it is hard to read anything that does not move beyond academia or work because it drains you so much. It is really too bad, too, because I love literature.
But oh man! So excited! I am finding out my placement next week! Yay! I cannot wait ... But I'll have to. I had just better have got a placement in history. I don't care where I am as long as I get my major - as last time I only had my minor teaching area and another area which I have zero background in (as in I never ever took a class or had a lesson of it in my life - which was weird unto itself). I guess it is one thing to have a course where you haven't taken a class since high school and you are not that good at it - but completely another to have zero experience. I don't know, it was just crazy to be given a unit to teach and them doing a research project (you know ... because then they would ask so many questions and seeing as these were year 11s it is a high enough grade which I just couldn't).
Oh! Next week I am going to go whale watching in Hervey Bay! So excited!
And ... according to a paper from back home the PM is going to dissolve Parlaiment and call an election for October 14 - it is funny to think that we would have campaigning and an election in less then a month - compared to the Americans who have been already campaigning for about 19 months and won't have their election until November. It drives me crazy - and we get at least some coverage each day in Australia. I cannot imagine what it must be like for the Americans. It would drive me absolutely crazy. A "come on, let's get it over with - I can't handle it anymore!".
I am getting this sinking feeling that he has all ready left ... and has not called or anything. Then again, I have done a really really great job convincing myself ... I don't know what.
He isn't J ... He isn't J ... He isn't J. That would be cruel. And yet if he did call ... I would ask him why he's calling - but if I hear from him before, then it won't be for another few days. And I just don't want to give in. Everything is freaking me out ... And I just need to slow down.
PS I created a new community which is specifically for Shakespeare ... if anyone is interested in joining you can find it at ye_bard