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[19 Sep 2007|12:14pm] |
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Nearly two years later, am finally reading Sophocles' original Greek Oedipus for my Intro to Theatre Studies class. I'm about two pages in, and already somewhat astonished by how heavy-handed Sophocles is with the foreshadowing:
"I'll do anything. I would be blind to misery not to pity my people kneeling at my feet." - Oedipus, Line 14
"Look around you, see with your own eyes" - Priest, Line 28
"I see - how could I fail to see what longings bring you here?" - Oedipus, Line 70
I'm amused.
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| A year in (Princeton) review. |
[09 May 2007|07:28pm] |
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This time last year, studying my ass off for APUSH, I thought that, besides for one glaring factual inaccuracy [having to do with Carnegie making up the idea of Social Darwinism and someone else making up the Gospel of Wealth - WHY THE HELL DO I REMEMBER THAT?], the Princeton Review was largely helpful in synthesizing an entire year's worth of information into slightly less than 2 weeks of easy reading. Additionally, I believed it's quirks - the little coloquialisms, the bad jokes it made, the points of addressing the reader - were entertaining, and made my studying easier and more memorable.
This year, when I read things like "You write essays for teachers who know you and (we hope) care about you. [...] They even know that there's a kid a few rows over with a hopeless crush on you and they wonder why you haven't noticed yet (why haven't you noticed?)," I'm still mildly entertained, but now believe that these quirks are insulting to my intelligence and am a little alarmed that the leading test-prep source includes these things in it's prep books. WTF.
The fact, however, that I am compelled to write this ought to prove an additional point, that I was highly motivated to study for APUSH, as I was then young and silly enough to still believe it mattered... Conversely, today is basically the first time I've cracked this book for English Literature and Composition (shame there's no nice acronym for that...).
I'm a winner.
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| A resolution |
[08 May 2007|08:34pm] |
Now that I am flush with - no, that's not even accurate, now that I am DROWNING IN - free time, I will read more.
There are many, many books I want to start. Or want to check out. Or buy (actually, not buy, but that I do lust after in bookstores). And yet I never do, and then I feel bad for saying I don't have enough time, but until recently, it was true.
Well, no more. Resolved that I will read more.
[PS Looking through my journal on calendar view, I found a post I made about senior showcase our freshman year. Still seems a little surreal that we're now done with ours... time flies.]
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| Jumping on the Bandwagon (part 2) |
[17 Mar 2007|01:45pm] |
1. A color i like seeing you wear
2. A memory or in-joke (probably the former) i have with you
3. Something I hope you always retain
4. A memory of you in freshman year
5. If you were a photograph, what I think it would be of
6. Food I associate with you
7. Question I want to ask you
8. If i ever have to bail you out of jail, it will be for...
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[15 Mar 2007|10:12pm] |
1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
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[27 Feb 2007|07:13pm] |
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RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs.
1. One summer when I went to Toronto, Lyd and I went through a small pyromaniac phase. We'd light candles and were fascinated with how different stuff burned and reacted to the fire and the wax and stuff. We could kill hours doing this.
2. Moreso when I was younger, but I still have a really bad habit of saying "Christmas" when I mean "Halloween." I have absolutely no idea why, but I used to constantly say "I'm being ______ for Christmas" and get the strangest looks.
3. There is a tiny little part of me that still thinks that if there was a way to get back into competitive skating, I would do it in a heartbeat. [But not at the expense of theatre, which is why this part of me is so small.]
4. Even though I love traveling, one of my least favorite smells in the entire world is the smell of airplane air and it really grosses me out when sometimes car air-conditioning smells this way.
5. I really enjoy typing things up; I find it incredibly satisfying.
6. I'm really, really good at Donkey Kong Country for Super Nintendo.
7. When I was younger, I had a really strange recurring nightmare where all I could see was white and it was just this noise that got louder and louder and louder; that's all that happened.
8. I have a weird magpie tendency when I'm in shows, I do my very best to take something from every show I'm in that somebody won't notice I've absconded with.
9. I love playing with makeup, browsing in stores like Sephora, and buying new makeup to try out because it's a fun color or it looks cool, but then everytime I have to actually wear makeup (beyond just eyeliner and powder or something equally simple) I remember how much I hate it.
10. I'm an absolute hopeless romantic.
Tagging everybody!
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| iTunes makes me laugh |
[13 Feb 2007|05:09pm] |
As I often do so as to not get bored, I have my iTunes on random. It just went from "Finale A" from Rent into "Desperado" by The Eagles.
I frankly find this HILARIOUS. Because it's so, so wrong, but sort of appropriate. And all sorts of hilarious to go from a musical to The Eagles and have it make a little bit of sense.
Observe:
Finale A, final lyrics - "Hold on there's something you should hear, it isn't much, but it took all year"
Desperado, opening lyrics - "Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You've been out riding fences for so long now... Oh you're a hard one - I know that you got your reasons - these things that are pleasin' you have hurt you somehow."
Okay maybe I'm just a huge nerd, but I somehow find that really, really funny.
Oh, that, and the introduction to "Your Eyes" does sound a touch like the intro to "Desperado."
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| An odd thought when I ought to be reading about sex |
[31 Jan 2007|09:54pm] |
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No joke. It's for psych. But now on to the odd thought:
I'm in a Facebook group (yes, I realize how lame it is that I'm talking about Facebook on LJ of all things) called "my name is Siobhan and I am well aware it is spelled weird." And I was looking at my profile - email told me Esther had written on my wall - and so I randomly clicked on it, and I was reading through a thread on common misspellings and nicknames.
And so everybody's listing the ones I've detailed for people my ENTIRE life - from all the S-io-ba-hans to Chevrons to Cinnabons and every other normal misprounciation/misspelling in the entire world, up to and including Soybean (!) and I kept having this really strong urge to be like Oh man me too! And then I remember that this entire group of 100 some girls have my name.
I guess it's because I never even heard of another Siobhan until... probably 5th grade, but it was SO WEIRD to see this - this stuff always seemed so strange and unique to me and all of a sudden it's like oh. People have my name. That's so different...
Point being, I guess, that I'm still not used to the idea that other people have my name. Oh, and you know how when you stare at a word long enough or you say one aloud over and over again it stops seeming like a real world? It occurred to me that my name is like that... Siobhan after Siobhan after Siobhan and I sort of stopped being aware of it being my name. That concludes this evening's episode of absolute pointlessness.
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[29 Jan 2007|11:05pm] |
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I'm having some kind of odd senioritis malfunction.
I have two tests tomorrow, and I don't care that much, but I can't bring myself to go "to hell with it, I know I know the material as well as I'm going to, I'm going to bed" - the rational part of my brain keeps saying that, and then I keep studying.
Hey wait, I remember this, it's called work ethic... so why does it choose to kick in when I'd rather go to sleep?
What the hell kind of second semester senior am I?
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[16 Jan 2007|10:07pm] |
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Stop - Spice Girls |
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It occurs to me that probably at least half of my irrational love for the Spice Girls is less about the music than it is about how unbelievably much it makes me think of Toronto. And Downbeat, I guess, but even before that it's always been about Toronto; watching Spice World with Lyd and Ruth and Emma and making ASSES of ourselves dancing along or trying to choreograph a dance when I was like eight years old to "Stop" at a surprise birthday party for my mom... stuff like that.
Yes. I'm waxing nostaligic instead of reading Anna Karenina. I'm a second semester senior, who cares?
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| Tee Hee |
[14 Jan 2007|12:38pm] |
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Psych book, module 14, a caption under a picture: "The pain in sprain is mainly in the brain."
I am such a nerd.
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[13 Jan 2007|11:36am] |
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Finals completed this year: 4
Finals completed ever at Harker: 30 (I'm not going to bother doing the math to include 7th/8th grade)
Finals remaining at Harker: NONE
Semester completed this year: 1
Semesters completed ever at Harker: 19
Semesters remaining at Harker: ONE.
What semester is that? SECOND, BITCH.
Damn it feels good to be a second semester senior.
Realistically i know it won't be all that different, but it's a nice thought, isn't it?
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[11 Jan 2007|09:18pm] |
I know it's petty, but you know, it is infinitely frustrating that I stooped so low as to actually CALL Cingular customer service and be like "Why can't I download the Sex and the City ringtone" and STILL no result. Booo.
BUT! New Grey's, peanut butter cookies, and am reasonably prepared for theory final. Life is good.
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| You learn something new everyday... |
[07 Jan 2007|03:17pm] |
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Today I learned that Eva Cassidy was white; for whatever reason, I always assumed she was black. Huh.
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[07 Jan 2007|12:06pm] |
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It has finally occurred to me that there's no real need to keep music in my iTunes that I don't like. Ergo, I just deleted more than half the Dashboard Confessional songs in my library. I probably would've done more, but it would've disrupted existing playlists.
Also, does anybody know if Billy Joel actually ever recorded Walking in Memphis? The more I listen to my favorite version of this song, that supposedly is recorded by Billy Joel (the one that I've sent/given to most of you, I'd imagine), the less and less I find that it sounds like Billy Joel. Especially the guy's speaking voice at the end.
And yes. The entire point of this was to avoid studying.
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| P.S. |
[04 Jan 2007|05:05pm] |
Second semester schedule -
1. Psych
2. Adv. Math
3. Ethics
4. Theory
5. Lunch
6. Free
7. English
8. Downbeat
Classes with me?
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| New Year's Resolutions |
[04 Jan 2007|04:49pm] |
1. Eat healthier; just be generally more in shape. It's not like an, "OMFG I'm so fat!!!1one" type thing, but it's more of a general, I'm not as in shape as I have been, I'm not eating as well, and I have gained a little weight so I'd like to change that. So please, no comments about how I'm anorexic please :0).
2. Read more! Goal: 2 new books a month, starting with the Great Novels books (I dropped it)
3. Go skate. Public ice sessions are like $8-9, so when I have the time, I want to go more this year.
4. Dance classssss
5. Not slack off just because I'm a second semester senior
6. Learn to cook something! And have a dinner party. Seriously how fun would that be?
7. Go to the beach! I did not make it to the beach ONE TIME in 2006. This must change in 2007.
8. Get a job, hopefully after Urinetown ends.
9. Write a song! I'll write a little lick of music or a little quartet of lyrics I like and then abandon it. So I want to try writing a song. Maybe for Global Grooves? We'll see...
10. Teach myself more things on piano; be more diligent about memorizing the things I do learn/already know.
11. Re-learn guitar. SERIOUSLY.
12. Procrastinate less and waste less time. I resolved this last year, and I go through phases, but overall I just do a lot of stuff with my time during which I could be being productive, not even necessarily in an academic way but just a life way as opposed to like, watching tv or being on Facebook.
13. Brush up my Spanish! It's getting ridiculous, actually.
14. Adjust well to college; learn a sense of direction so I don't get hopelessly lost on the subway.
We'll see.
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