procrastinating work, as usual
I need to update more.French sucks. Duh. What else is new.
I like A Midsummer Night's Dream a lot more than I thought I would because I found some classic Shakespearean nihlism and have decided that this play should be categorized as a Tragedy rather than a comedy. You Langford alums should read it sometime with this in mind. It's deeper than it seems. Je l'aime.
We watched the Virgin Suicides last night. It was fabulous. It's been awhile since I watched it with someone who hasn't seen it before and it was so funny because the movie is really quite hilarious up to the last 10 minutes and then everyone's like oh. That's not funny. Which was funny (their reactions, not the movie, suicide is not funny).
We're going dancing at this normally 21+ club on Sunday which is 18+ on Sundays and we are uber excited. Which reminds me I need to call them back and double check. Because we all went club shirt shopping last night (mine was $15. I rule for sure) and it would super suck if they did were not though I called them yesterday (I think...I called one of two and I'm pretty sure it was this one) and I just got smart and looked up their number and checked my phone and it was them psha I rule.
We're starting Ragged Dick in American Dream class. Not too excited. But next week is Gatsby. woo hoo!
Six million pages to read. And laundry. And exercising. And maybe room cleaning. Maybe Bowling for Soup tonight but they are sold out. Perhaps there will be extra at the door, so we are going to check it out I think. I really wanted to go, but I have a lot of work to do and kind of want to do that as I am going out tomorrow night. You know, I think that's what I'm going to do. Sounds loserish, but I'd rather not be behind in my reading. Too early in the semester. blah.
OK, going to attack a mountain of reading and researching and running and laundry (oooo so much laundry...maybe tomorrow...msut stop procrastinating that...muuuuuussst). Blah.
To quote a Midsummer Night's Dream:
"Are you sure
That we are awake? It seems to me
That yet we sleep, we dream"
[IV.i.192-4].
Is love really an illusion that blinds you to someone's faults? Is it truly nothing more than a projection of a fantasy on to a person of choice? Nothing more than a superficial dream we create for ourselves?
posted by kellyisdelightful @ 9:59 AM
4 Comments:
Ditto.
If love is an illusion, that kind of sucks. But I can understand about the 'projection of fantasy' thing. Love is just complicated.
I suppose we're still too young.
I thought college was going to provide me with ample boyfriend opportunities. I was, sadly, proven horribly wrong.
Have fun at the Sunday night club.
Is this wierd that I'm commenting on your blog? I just wanted to say that my college Shakespeare professor always argued that the only real difference between Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies was the ending. I think I actually agree with him because there are always darker undercurrents in his comedies. That's all. I don't have anything to say about the love thing.
Not weird at all. Nobody really has an answer to love thing. We just roll that way.
My professor said that as well. He was going on about how the comedies were narrowly avoided tragedies and the tragedies were narrowly avoided comedies. Which I definitely see in certain cases, but not others. Hamlet, for example, I think lacks that comedic aspect. As with Macbeth. I haven't read very many Shakespearean comedies though. Speaking of Shakespeare, I have to go to that class now. Bleh.
uhhh Miss Eyer is my hero....lol
and I really like Midsummer Night's Dream. I like Shakespeare period. We are reading Hamlet in English right now and I dig hardcore. What's wrong with me?
AND THE VIRGIN SUICIDES RULES LIFE!!! That movie is an amazing piece of work; the soundtrack is awesome too. The whole thing is done by the band AIR, who are crazy badass! So listen or buy or whatever.
Have fun clubbing. A group of us Humanities gals are going to Le Bear this weekend I think.....ahahahahahah I miss eyer is reading this....I will know if she gives me "the look" tomorrow.hahahahah
I don't like Gatsby. sorry.
I have somewhat of a lot to read/research, but for the past three nights I've been at Bagheris..my lungs slowly are destroyed.....lol Good luck to you though, you are more responsible than I!
I am currently reading "The Essential Dalai Lama" which is incredible...I definitely am feeling the Buddhsm tug.
A quote from his holiness, The Dalai Lama:
"Modern industrial society often strikes me as being like a huge self- propelled machine. Instead of humans being in charge, each individual is a tiny, insignificant component with no choice but to move when the machine moves."
I know. amazing.
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