Spare Time is a beautiful thing

I've so much time on my hands now that I don't have to spend it all constantly working on/worrying about schoolwork. College is so much unnecessary stress and I'm more than half tempted to just drop out. I'm kidding. Unfortunately, I can't drop out of college. Yes, I said unfortunately. Don't get me started.

Getting back to my main point, the semester's over and now I have time to actually do things that I enjoy, including (but not limited to):

-Spending time with family and friends
-Sleeping enough
-Playing the sims
-Reading things that I want to read (as opposed to what I have to read)
-Writing (unrelated to academics)
-Feeling happy, optimistic and upbeat


Today I hung (horrible diction. So sorry) out with Jenni, saw Avatar with my dad and brother, ate Qdoba and watched a movie in my bed while I played the Sims. I love days like these and they really don't happen during the semester. On the off chance that it does, I can't enjoy it much because I'm too busy worrying about when I'm going to make up the work that I was supposed to be doing instead of enjoying life. For this, I blame DePauw. Gah, there I go again with the negativity.

OKAY. Seriously, I made this post to say that I'm feeling happy (save for one incident today, which I'd rather not bring up) and tomorrow is looking good too. I'm hanging out with Hayley, which is always a treat. I want popcorn.

Avatar was so much better than I thought it was going to be. Going in, I had no clue what the movie was even about. Not only was Avatar just BEAUTIFUL to watch, but the plot was just wonderful. Aside from the fact that it made the military look evil (which, I do not believe the military as a whole is) I really appreciated the fact that the perspective was changed. Normally, hostile aliens are colonizing earth for no real reason. In Avatar, humans were colonizing the aliens' planet. Sort of makes you think twice. This was set in the future (2152 I believe... why do i use so many parentheses???) but it is also true for the past. You know that little rhyme: "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue". Then the Europeans proceeded to steal the land from the "hostile savage natives" and cultivate it for their own purposes. What am I talking about??

What I'm trying to say is that Avatar is both visually and conceptually engaging. It's wonderful to watch, and it makes me think. That's all I wanted to say. Sometimes, I am a bit wordy. Forgive me.

Ok, I'm tired of writing, and since I'm not scrambling to have something due, I can just stop! How glorious. Oh btw, I had a nightmare that I was at the playboy mansion (???RANDOM???) writing a paper for a Lit class that I had two semesters ago. It was 4am, and I had to have the 8 page paper done by class at 2:20pm. I had three paragraphs. I was so relieved to wake up and find that I did not, in fact, have a paper to write!

Ok, seriously I'm done. I'm going to eat popcorn and probably start another movie. YES.

Nerd Alert. All hands on deck.

The phrase "See into the life of things" has been buzzing around in my head all day. I remembered it from a Wordsworth poem, but I couldn't remember which one. Don't worry, I found it.

From Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey:

Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.



Also, I just recently finished reading the most depressing/haunting/disturbing book I have ever read in all my life. This spot was previously held by George Orwell's 1984. Not anymore. Cormac McCarthy's The Road is now the winner. Then I saw the movie... Bad bad bad idea.

In the midst of the bleakness of The Road, I found this excerpt really beautiful. I can't get over it.

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."

Blowing my mind right now.

The fish swims in the sea while the sea is (in a certain sense) contained within the fish. Oh, what I am to think of what the writings of a thousand lifetimes could not explain if all the forest trees were pens and all the oceans ink?

-MewithoutYou

UGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. VAS-TU!

Snoop Dog was on Conan O' Brien last night. Apparently, he's started a football related after school program for middle and high school students. In an effort to promote learning off the field, participants are required to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA.

Wow, don't hurt your brains kids. A 2.0 GPA in middle or high school is so unbelievably hard to achieve *sarcasm*. Way to set the bar high.

And since when is Snoop Dog a positive role model for anyone, especially kids?

I'm very worried about the upcoming generation.

Every time I watch the NBC channel 13 11:00 news, they're ALWAYS talking about facebook. What gives? When did facebook become newsworthy?

Also,
Dr. Lincoln's Simulated Plastic Conspiracy is probably the worst band name ever.

And,
I'm sooo glad to be done with American National Government. That class was a disastrous waste of my time and money. I'd better get an A.

Oh how I miss the days of book reports in elementary and middle school. What's easier than reading a book and then just rewriting what happened. Deep, perceptive analyzation? What is that?


On the upside, I'm feeling more posi today. Heck yes. It may not seem like it, but I am. I am also craving subway and soup. I'm clocking out of working on my paper to take a much needed/deserved lunch.

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IT'S NOT WORKING!!

I feel compelled to run around my room with post-its and a sharpie and label everything in French.