Sunday Feelings

Sundays are such a strange day. I love them because they seem to be the best day to catch up on sleep but it also means it's the beginning of a new week and that tomorrow is Monday and I have work to do. Blah. Well this weekend was absolutely insane. I went home for Shakori which is a grassroots festival and probably one of my favorite events of the year. It occurs twice near my hometown in Silk Hope. It's a really free-spirited place. Everyone out there is very earthy and usually a hippie and the music is amazing!! We went out there on Friday and Saturday night. You will see the strangest people and it makes me wonder what exactly they do for a living during the week. I had some guy come up to me as I was passing him and he looks at me and says, "It's all for shits and giggles, right?" Of course, I had no idea who he was and I just started laughing and said, "Hell yea it is buddy." We also had some girl come up to us, who we had no idea who she was but she had a 30 minute conversation with us and it took her all of those 30 minutes to try to remember our names, after she was laying her head all over the dirty picnic table that had pizza sauce all over it, haha. Hope she made it back to her tent okay. We decided this fall we are going to camp for the entire weekend. Usually I stay out there both nights, but this time we decided to go back home that night. It was an amazing time and I can not wait for this fall!

Easter Break

So I came home for Easter break and it has been the most relaxing time. I have done absolutely nothing but see friends that I don't get to see that often which is always a blast to sit down and catch up. I loved having a three-day week last week, and it's going to be horrible to go back to a full week, but we only have 3 weeks left of school so that isn't too bad. It's been a pretty weekend too. Today was gorgeous!! It felt so good outside, I actually wish I would've been back at the beach to go lay out on the beach. Hopefully it'll stay pretty this week so that I can make it there at least two days this week. I watched a new show this past Thursday. It's called Harper's Island. I am not quite sure what to think of it quite yet, but the first episode was definitely quite interesting. I am definitely going to watch it again this Thursday to find out more of what happens. Another new show, College Life, comes on this Monday on MTV. I think it'll be pretty good, but I also think it's kind of stupid that they are filming four freshman. I just wish they would film me so that I could show them what a real good time is like.

Crazy Weekend

So this weekend was quite out of control. Friday night there was some crazy partying going on so we went to all of them and got back real late. Saturday night I was excited about watching the UNC game but got rear ended on my way to a friends house and had to spend an hour giving out my information to different policemen and being accused of drinking and driving. I did get a breathalizer, which was pretty sweet cause I've always wanted to take a breathalizer sober, so that was a pretty cool thing I got to do this weekend. I have an inquiry project due today, which I am currently typing up at the moment and I also have a music test this week, which I have to do really well on. Thank gosh it's only a three day week though, that makes me more than excited. I'm gonna go home this weekend since it is Easter break and everyone else will be coming home too.

Friday

So today we didn't have class, which is the most amazing news that can possibly come right now because I have been so overwhelmed with tests and papers this week. I can't believe we only have a month of school left and then we're done. In a way I am glad because it means no more school, but jesus where did my freshman year go. I feel like I've barely gotten here and now it's time to become a sophomore and start taking upper level courses. Time sure does fly by fast. I am pretty excited about the weekend. Hopefully it is going to be beautiful and warm outside so that maybe I can make it to the beach. The Azaela Festival is this weekend, which is always a good time to go downtown and be near the waterfront and enjoy all the activities and concerts that are going on. I haven't been in like 2 years so it'll be nice to go back and have fun with that this weekend. Other than that, I am glad the week is coming to close. Next week will be a little hectic at the end but it's only a 3-day week which is amazing news! I do have a project due and a test and then I'm pretty much done until finals.

A Doll's House

My favorite character of the story has to be Dr. Rank. I think that it is very odd that he is so pessimistic on life. He wasn't too much of a main character in Act 1 but you do learn that he comes to visit them everyday and he is a dear friend of the family and obviously one of Nora's closest friends. In Act 2 though we learn that he has a secret love for Nora, which makes me like him because I did not like the always "down" side of him and it was nice to see that he wasn't so worried about his health. You would think that knowing about your death would prepare you more for it and you would enjoy life to the fullest, but he seems to take it the opposite way and constantly complains about how he will soon die. Knowing that he has a secret love to Nora, which I thought he did all along, makes me feel better about the story. Nora, I believe, used to be in love with her husband, but somewhere along the way it has become more of a childish love, where we would view Torvald as the father and her as the child. Dr. Rank seems to be the most probable person that she is in love with now because she seems to disclose her secrets with him and you would think she would not tell him more than she does her own husband.

Paper Outline

So I decided to switch my paper topic to number one which involves comparing and contrasting the two traditions from "In the Penal Colony" and "The Lottery".

Introduction:
First I want to inroduce the two stories and create a thesis pertaining to traditions in not just the stories but also in all societies around the world. I want to relate them vaguely to the differences in language and imagery in each story and discuss them further in detail with textual examples from the stories.

Body:
I want to have two or three paragraphs in my body. One would pertain to the comparison of the two tradition discussed and how they seem outrageous to us, as a civilized society, but if you had never known any different, would you have other feelings on the matter. I might even relate it to some tradition of our society or other societies that we think as normal, but are in fact a little strange to others. My second paragraph would be a contrasting one in which I would contrast the differences in the two traditions discussed. I would contrast them against the imagery each one portrays and the language the author used to write the story with.

Conclusion:
I would sum my body up and restate my thesis while providing a sound ending to my paper.

Illustration Meets Imagination

So as I was stumbling through the internet, I found this cool artist. His name is Tebe Interesno. Here is his website if you want to go check him out. His artwork is amazing. Each piece of work has a song that goes with it, so I assuming that the song relates to the artwork in some form or another. It would take some time to go through each piece but it is cool to listen to a little bit of it as you view the art. The website is done in another language so you can't really read any of it. His artwork is taken of real photos and he has put in graphics of other designs of his from a computer. It's really cool because they are so vivid and real, yet the characters all favor one another. He adds an element of magic to the pictures, even though it is an unusual magic. But they are nonetheless quite interesting.

Side Note
Haha I was reading my T.A.'s e-mail to me a minute ago about my lab report due tomorrow and he spelt section....sextion. Wonder what's on is mind.