Thursday night was fun with Leslie. I got WAY hyper. Good time.
Friday I went to see HP with my mom in the IMAX. It was actually my first time there. I think my dad's theater is only 1/16 its size.
I'm glad we went early. I week into the movie being out, and the show was still sold out. And my dad thought we were crazy for going early...Ha! He was wrong.
I saw Shrek 2. I want a huge poster of Puss in Boots making his pitiful-cute-kitty face.
I was angry at my mom this morning. She read a book throughout the church service. I didn't say anything during...just silently sat and stewed. But, in the end, as always, I couldn't hold my tongue. At the restaurant afterwards I informed her my views on her behavior:
She was setting a bad example for the children that sat next to her (She responded with the fact that they were drawing. I reminded her of the fact that the children were under the age of 10 and she was not)
I also threw around the word "hypocritical" since when I was young, I was never allowed to read when she took me to mass.
The only thing I didn't include, was the fact that I felt she was being disrespectful.
My dad informed me that I was in the right. He was amused because during my speech the waitress came and took our orders and after she left I said "I have more to say" and continued on my rampage. He said I should write letters. He wants me to write a letter to the Governor for him. *Rolls eyes*
Anyway, my mom never actually apologized, but she did buy me stuff at Urban Outfitters. Strangely enough, my dad had suggested that my mom and I go in. I was very surprised since my mom had bought stuff for me about a month ago.
Ohhh, also, I attempted to get some GRE math help from my dad over the weekend. He's the kind of teacher that says "This stuff is easy. You'd be an idiot not to get it. Any questions?" Thereby making you an idiot if you do have a question.
Now on to ignorable GRE stuff:
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (1818, a year after death)
-Role of parent (tyranny, (dis)obedience)
-"every(woman)"
-irony
-(dis)regard for novels
-gender roles and roles in marriage
-marriage for $/property
-knowledge of narrator
-narrator's occasional use of first person
-intertextuality (Mrs. Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray (1751)
-Gray believed that "the language of the age is never the language of poetry". He often uses archaic diction and distorted syntax.
-approximately 10 syllables/line. ABAB CDCD...consonant
-Poem begins at dusk.
-Lots of nature is mentioned
-Portrays the death of the poor and implies that everyone dies, there is no point in seeking glory.
-Cromwell, Milton, and Hampden are mentioned
-"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen // And waste its sweetness on the desert air"
-Much of the last 1/3 of the poem is a quote of a friend of a dead poor person.
-The dead long for a friend to register their work and note their absence.
Friday I went to see HP with my mom in the IMAX. It was actually my first time there. I think my dad's theater is only 1/16 its size.
I'm glad we went early. I week into the movie being out, and the show was still sold out. And my dad thought we were crazy for going early...Ha! He was wrong.
I saw Shrek 2. I want a huge poster of Puss in Boots making his pitiful-cute-kitty face.
I was angry at my mom this morning. She read a book throughout the church service. I didn't say anything during...just silently sat and stewed. But, in the end, as always, I couldn't hold my tongue. At the restaurant afterwards I informed her my views on her behavior:
She was setting a bad example for the children that sat next to her (She responded with the fact that they were drawing. I reminded her of the fact that the children were under the age of 10 and she was not)
I also threw around the word "hypocritical" since when I was young, I was never allowed to read when she took me to mass.
The only thing I didn't include, was the fact that I felt she was being disrespectful.
My dad informed me that I was in the right. He was amused because during my speech the waitress came and took our orders and after she left I said "I have more to say" and continued on my rampage. He said I should write letters. He wants me to write a letter to the Governor for him. *Rolls eyes*
Anyway, my mom never actually apologized, but she did buy me stuff at Urban Outfitters. Strangely enough, my dad had suggested that my mom and I go in. I was very surprised since my mom had bought stuff for me about a month ago.
Ohhh, also, I attempted to get some GRE math help from my dad over the weekend. He's the kind of teacher that says "This stuff is easy. You'd be an idiot not to get it. Any questions?" Thereby making you an idiot if you do have a question.
Now on to ignorable GRE stuff:
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (1818, a year after death)
-Role of parent (tyranny, (dis)obedience)
-"every(woman)"
-irony
-(dis)regard for novels
-gender roles and roles in marriage
-marriage for $/property
-knowledge of narrator
-narrator's occasional use of first person
-intertextuality (Mrs. Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray (1751)
-Gray believed that "the language of the age is never the language of poetry". He often uses archaic diction and distorted syntax.
-approximately 10 syllables/line. ABAB CDCD...consonant
-Poem begins at dusk.
-Lots of nature is mentioned
-Portrays the death of the poor and implies that everyone dies, there is no point in seeking glory.
-Cromwell, Milton, and Hampden are mentioned
-"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen // And waste its sweetness on the desert air"
-Much of the last 1/3 of the poem is a quote of a friend of a dead poor person.
-The dead long for a friend to register their work and note their absence.
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