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drownedinlight today, I had something of an epiphany about the project. The reading part of it at least. What I had been trying to do so far was alternate fiction and non-fiction books, but what I realized was that my college library has a lot of books that do studies of things (a variety of subjects really, but the ones I have now are mostly about film and literature) and that's one of the reasons I picked them up, they are about subjects I'm interested in and the authors' findings, opservations and sometimes even personal beliefs. Which is really interesting. And this I would imagine is something common at a college library, seeing as people at colleges like to study stuff (somewhere out there, if anyone ever reads this, I have just made many academics cry).
But the thing I noticed about my local library, when I logged on and poked around the website is this: there are not a lot of these kinds of non-fiction books around. A lot of the non-fiction books tell more of a story about people (autobiographies) or tell you how to loose ten pounds (...which I might check out...and I might stop eating poptarts and easter candy, 'cause that would probably help more than a book). And those aren't really the kind of non-fiction books I am interested in.
So, then I got to thinking about maybe changing my goal for summer, and then going back to alternating fiction and non-fiction when I get back to Hollins in the fall (if I keep talking about it like this, it will happen). But over the summer, I think I want to commit to alternating classics (like something off of my three hundred book long books to read before you die list) with more popular, science fiction/fantasy reads. Not that much of this really matters, because I don't think I put this down in my official goals and rules anyway.
Have I mentioned that I'm keeping an official soundtrack too? I don't think I have, but it's kind of fragmented, and something I've learned about myself from this is that I don't like to listen to music when I write. It's a very strange notion, maybe because I wrote a lot of song fics when I was in middle school, but really, I've gone back each time I've finished a piece and recorded the music I listened to during writing that piece (and for some reason, I want to write writing as righting....stupid homophones). The most common artist on there so far is my newest obsession, Florence + the Machine, if you are interested in learning.
Anyway, back to the books. I also am going to have to read this pile of non-fiction books (plus one translated fiction), in order so that I can return them all to the school library before I go back home. They are a pretty interesting bunch, so I shouldn't have much trouble reading through them, and most of them are two hundred pages or less, so they'll be about four day books.
AND also speaking of books: I'm going to finish the Diving Comedy tomorrow! YAY! I'll explain more on why I am happy about this tomorrow.
Now on a completely different, non-project related note....oh hold on, just had a thought about a project related note.
It was my one month anniversary on Friday and I completely forgot! okay, now back to the non-project related note.
Easter is coming up, and I bought candy and cute containers for my friends. I was just going to do eggs, but then I saw these adorable pales and take out cartons at Target and my inner shopper was a little too stoked. I think I might go take a shower after this and then put everyone's little thing together, so I will only eat my candy and not theirs too. This is an especially good idea seeing as I bought five pounds of it.
Speaking of shopping (I am one, long tangent today, aren't I?) when I went to the mall yesterday, I walked to the AT&T story, and it started raining (and snowing for about thirty seconds) as I did. I ammend that statement, it started pouring as I walked to the AT&T store. And wouldn't you know it, it stopped when I got there. Thankfully, what had been draining my battery and causing my phone not to work was my sim card, which was free to replace. So then I walked back to the Walmart and there was a Target along the way where I found the cute pales and take out boxes (for a dollar each), and I got one for three of my close friends, Friend J and my roommate.
When I got to Walmart (which was just a walk around the corner from Target), I took out my grocery list and bought the stuff I need, along with some fudge poptarts, easter eggs, that five pounds of candy I mentioned, cheeze its, cool aid, a pitcher for the Kool-aid (my electrolites were feeling a little low again, so I thought I would make some salty Kool-Aid), and yeah I think that was it. I tried to stay under thiry, but I did not quite make it.
Anyway, so I get finished at Wal-Mart and I finished just about ten minutes after the pevious shuttle had gone back to Hollins. So i take my bags and go to sit out on the curb and wait for the next shuttle, which would be in about another thirty minutes. I could have gone across the street to the mall, but I didn't want to walk around with five bags of stuff...heavy stuff at that. So I just sat down on the curb, and I opened my box of pop-tarts and took one out, 'cause I was kind of hungry and cheeze-its always taste better with kool-aid.
So I'm sitting there, munching on a poptart, and this woamn walks toward the shuttle stop, and shouts, "HEY!"
And I look at her blinking, chewing my poptart, wondering if she was really talking to me. So I swallowed, and said, "Hello."
ANd then she said, "What are you doing?"
"Waiting for the Hollins shuttle," I said.
"Oh, okay," she replied, and walked into the garden section of walmart. I cannot figure out what she thought I was doing. If she thought I was just hanging around with my Walmart bags, if I stole something, or if I was hitch hicking or suicidal or something it was weird.
SO I sit there for a little while, and it's blustery, and I eventually (the shuttle had to go down town for a while, before coming back to the Walmart Mall area). And, naturally, after I get back the dining hall is closed, because it's the weekend. So I get back to my room and make some ramen and some Kool-aid and eat up before it's time to go to the weekend movie.
This week end Tangled was playing, and it was amazing. Actually, Disney movies are usually quite superior when watched with a large crowd of Hollins women, because some of us tend to shout what everyone is thinking at the screen. And we all tend to emote the same way (the phrase "awwwwwwwwwwww" comes to mind). Plus I really liked the way they changed the Rapunzel story line to really make it their own.
I actually got into a discussion about Disney movies on Friday night due to the Tangled poster that's hanging in the cafeteria, because it reminded me about a video the Nostalgia Chick did concerning the dueling (/dualing) that Dreamworks (SKG) and Disney do, and that because Dreamworks has stolen a lot of ideas off of Disney, Disney stole a major ad marketing campaign off of Dreamworks, in the the posters, billboards and even the trailers for Tangeled kept things very vague. It's an interesting idea about the Dreamworks and Disney rivalry (which has to do with Jeffery Katzenberg and the lot). For more reference, there's a part of Waking Sleeping Beauty that talks about why Katzenberg leaves Disney, and the Nostalgia Chick video can be found at thatguywiththeglasses.com .
But the sort of reason I bring all of that up, is because we then started talking about the Disney Renaissance, and where it technically begins. Wikipedia (and most people) says that the Disney renaissance began with The Little Mermaid, and that is kind of true, but ever since watching Waking Sleeping Beauty, I tend to start it with Oliver and Company, which is the movie where they made the promise to put out one animated feature a year, although Little Mermaid was really their first sucessful one, so I don't really contest it.But we got to trying to remember which movies came out in which year. Collectively, we had 1989 (The Little Mermaid), 1991 (Beauty and the Beast), 1995 (Pocahontas), 1998 (Mulan), 1999 (Tarzan), and 2000 (fantasia 2000). But we could not figure out what the other years were, even though we knew a good number of the movies released during that time (considering they were the movies we grew up on).
So finally, Friend R gave me a way around the no laptops at the dinner table rule, and I looked it up and read the list off to everyone at the table. Wikipedia has the answers, but I will say I did not know that the Rescuers Down Under was a part of the Disney Renaissance, but it was. But while I was there, I saw some inproduction things that I find might be really interesting when they come out. King of the Elves is one, based off a short story, about a boy who gets named king of a group of magical creatuers (more than just elves, there were some goblins and others in there too) after he saves them from some trolls, which looks like it will be really interesting when it comes out.
There's also a film Pixar is releasing in 2012 called Brave. And guess what? Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, it's going to be a PRINCESS movie. Yes, even after Disney said they weren't going to do it, they decided to. And she's even going to join the official line up of princesses used for marketing purposes. I'm pretty sure they decided to let it happen though, because she's going to be an action princess. But it looks really cool, so I am okay with this.
And now comes the time in the journal when I really start struggling to think of what to say, because I'm probably about two hundred words away from completing my two thousand, and I've already told you tons of stuff about my past few days. I will say that I did get more homework done than I thought I did, so that's good, in face I'm not really missing much, considering that most of my scholarships aren't due until June, so I'm putting some of them on the back burner for now, and I'm going to focus on my Thoreau essay, which is probably going to be about Jesus and Matthew 6:25-36 now, where as I was going to have a writing them before.
Um, I also got some fondation, just in case I feel like wearing make up for this one scholarship thing. It's worth ten thousand dollars, which is one of the only reasons why I'm entering because it's based on two pictures of yourself, and only a thousand characters (yes, characters, not words) about yourself, and I never really thought I would enter something like that, but I'm hard up for cash. And I figure it can't be all bad, and I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover and everything. So I'm just going to try and go for it, and maybe infuse some of my personality into these photos and send some good vibes toward the way of the people judging this thing so that maybe I can get that ten grand. Because I really need it.
Also, I'm probably going to be an RA!
Also: finding a job is hard when you are 1500 miles away from where you are going to be working.
But the thing I noticed about my local library, when I logged on and poked around the website is this: there are not a lot of these kinds of non-fiction books around. A lot of the non-fiction books tell more of a story about people (autobiographies) or tell you how to loose ten pounds (...which I might check out...and I might stop eating poptarts and easter candy, 'cause that would probably help more than a book). And those aren't really the kind of non-fiction books I am interested in.
So, then I got to thinking about maybe changing my goal for summer, and then going back to alternating fiction and non-fiction when I get back to Hollins in the fall (if I keep talking about it like this, it will happen). But over the summer, I think I want to commit to alternating classics (like something off of my three hundred book long books to read before you die list) with more popular, science fiction/fantasy reads. Not that much of this really matters, because I don't think I put this down in my official goals and rules anyway.
Have I mentioned that I'm keeping an official soundtrack too? I don't think I have, but it's kind of fragmented, and something I've learned about myself from this is that I don't like to listen to music when I write. It's a very strange notion, maybe because I wrote a lot of song fics when I was in middle school, but really, I've gone back each time I've finished a piece and recorded the music I listened to during writing that piece (and for some reason, I want to write writing as righting....stupid homophones). The most common artist on there so far is my newest obsession, Florence + the Machine, if you are interested in learning.
Anyway, back to the books. I also am going to have to read this pile of non-fiction books (plus one translated fiction), in order so that I can return them all to the school library before I go back home. They are a pretty interesting bunch, so I shouldn't have much trouble reading through them, and most of them are two hundred pages or less, so they'll be about four day books.
AND also speaking of books: I'm going to finish the Diving Comedy tomorrow! YAY! I'll explain more on why I am happy about this tomorrow.
Now on a completely different, non-project related note....oh hold on, just had a thought about a project related note.
It was my one month anniversary on Friday and I completely forgot! okay, now back to the non-project related note.
Easter is coming up, and I bought candy and cute containers for my friends. I was just going to do eggs, but then I saw these adorable pales and take out cartons at Target and my inner shopper was a little too stoked. I think I might go take a shower after this and then put everyone's little thing together, so I will only eat my candy and not theirs too. This is an especially good idea seeing as I bought five pounds of it.
Speaking of shopping (I am one, long tangent today, aren't I?) when I went to the mall yesterday, I walked to the AT&T story, and it started raining (and snowing for about thirty seconds) as I did. I ammend that statement, it started pouring as I walked to the AT&T store. And wouldn't you know it, it stopped when I got there. Thankfully, what had been draining my battery and causing my phone not to work was my sim card, which was free to replace. So then I walked back to the Walmart and there was a Target along the way where I found the cute pales and take out boxes (for a dollar each), and I got one for three of my close friends, Friend J and my roommate.
When I got to Walmart (which was just a walk around the corner from Target), I took out my grocery list and bought the stuff I need, along with some fudge poptarts, easter eggs, that five pounds of candy I mentioned, cheeze its, cool aid, a pitcher for the Kool-aid (my electrolites were feeling a little low again, so I thought I would make some salty Kool-Aid), and yeah I think that was it. I tried to stay under thiry, but I did not quite make it.
Anyway, so I get finished at Wal-Mart and I finished just about ten minutes after the pevious shuttle had gone back to Hollins. So i take my bags and go to sit out on the curb and wait for the next shuttle, which would be in about another thirty minutes. I could have gone across the street to the mall, but I didn't want to walk around with five bags of stuff...heavy stuff at that. So I just sat down on the curb, and I opened my box of pop-tarts and took one out, 'cause I was kind of hungry and cheeze-its always taste better with kool-aid.
So I'm sitting there, munching on a poptart, and this woamn walks toward the shuttle stop, and shouts, "HEY!"
And I look at her blinking, chewing my poptart, wondering if she was really talking to me. So I swallowed, and said, "Hello."
ANd then she said, "What are you doing?"
"Waiting for the Hollins shuttle," I said.
"Oh, okay," she replied, and walked into the garden section of walmart. I cannot figure out what she thought I was doing. If she thought I was just hanging around with my Walmart bags, if I stole something, or if I was hitch hicking or suicidal or something it was weird.
SO I sit there for a little while, and it's blustery, and I eventually (the shuttle had to go down town for a while, before coming back to the Walmart Mall area). And, naturally, after I get back the dining hall is closed, because it's the weekend. So I get back to my room and make some ramen and some Kool-aid and eat up before it's time to go to the weekend movie.
This week end Tangled was playing, and it was amazing. Actually, Disney movies are usually quite superior when watched with a large crowd of Hollins women, because some of us tend to shout what everyone is thinking at the screen. And we all tend to emote the same way (the phrase "awwwwwwwwwwww" comes to mind). Plus I really liked the way they changed the Rapunzel story line to really make it their own.
I actually got into a discussion about Disney movies on Friday night due to the Tangled poster that's hanging in the cafeteria, because it reminded me about a video the Nostalgia Chick did concerning the dueling (/dualing) that Dreamworks (SKG) and Disney do, and that because Dreamworks has stolen a lot of ideas off of Disney, Disney stole a major ad marketing campaign off of Dreamworks, in the the posters, billboards and even the trailers for Tangeled kept things very vague. It's an interesting idea about the Dreamworks and Disney rivalry (which has to do with Jeffery Katzenberg and the lot). For more reference, there's a part of Waking Sleeping Beauty that talks about why Katzenberg leaves Disney, and the Nostalgia Chick video can be found at thatguywiththeglasses.com .
But the sort of reason I bring all of that up, is because we then started talking about the Disney Renaissance, and where it technically begins. Wikipedia (and most people) says that the Disney renaissance began with The Little Mermaid, and that is kind of true, but ever since watching Waking Sleeping Beauty, I tend to start it with Oliver and Company, which is the movie where they made the promise to put out one animated feature a year, although Little Mermaid was really their first sucessful one, so I don't really contest it.But we got to trying to remember which movies came out in which year. Collectively, we had 1989 (The Little Mermaid), 1991 (Beauty and the Beast), 1995 (Pocahontas), 1998 (Mulan), 1999 (Tarzan), and 2000 (fantasia 2000). But we could not figure out what the other years were, even though we knew a good number of the movies released during that time (considering they were the movies we grew up on).
So finally, Friend R gave me a way around the no laptops at the dinner table rule, and I looked it up and read the list off to everyone at the table. Wikipedia has the answers, but I will say I did not know that the Rescuers Down Under was a part of the Disney Renaissance, but it was. But while I was there, I saw some inproduction things that I find might be really interesting when they come out. King of the Elves is one, based off a short story, about a boy who gets named king of a group of magical creatuers (more than just elves, there were some goblins and others in there too) after he saves them from some trolls, which looks like it will be really interesting when it comes out.
There's also a film Pixar is releasing in 2012 called Brave. And guess what? Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, it's going to be a PRINCESS movie. Yes, even after Disney said they weren't going to do it, they decided to. And she's even going to join the official line up of princesses used for marketing purposes. I'm pretty sure they decided to let it happen though, because she's going to be an action princess. But it looks really cool, so I am okay with this.
And now comes the time in the journal when I really start struggling to think of what to say, because I'm probably about two hundred words away from completing my two thousand, and I've already told you tons of stuff about my past few days. I will say that I did get more homework done than I thought I did, so that's good, in face I'm not really missing much, considering that most of my scholarships aren't due until June, so I'm putting some of them on the back burner for now, and I'm going to focus on my Thoreau essay, which is probably going to be about Jesus and Matthew 6:25-36 now, where as I was going to have a writing them before.
Um, I also got some fondation, just in case I feel like wearing make up for this one scholarship thing. It's worth ten thousand dollars, which is one of the only reasons why I'm entering because it's based on two pictures of yourself, and only a thousand characters (yes, characters, not words) about yourself, and I never really thought I would enter something like that, but I'm hard up for cash. And I figure it can't be all bad, and I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover and everything. So I'm just going to try and go for it, and maybe infuse some of my personality into these photos and send some good vibes toward the way of the people judging this thing so that maybe I can get that ten grand. Because I really need it.
Also, I'm probably going to be an RA!
Also: finding a job is hard when you are 1500 miles away from where you are going to be working.
