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Sep. 17th, 2009 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keykRelative visited, we ate out. at a sit-down restaurant. Whoo. Two tests tomorrow (both memorization based, too) and bunches of homework. Just my luck. :/ I'm gonna post some thoughts about some things around here. Can't let my writing go rusty while I don't have a formal English class to keep me sharp.
I've been reading a book by Annie Dillard (An American Childhood) for my "pseudo" English class, and well......well, I have to admit, she is an AMAZING writer. Her descriptions are among the best I've ever read. They really stand out and you can feel, hear, see, know...know it all--it's so clear and vivid. But the book's a tad bland. Much of it is probably because I cannot really connect to her? I like my books best if I can really connect to something in the book. I can't with this even though that was the reason why we were asked to read it in the first place. I just feel different. Then again, I think a lot of people are in the same boat as me.
It's the 1950's. Streets were safer. People were more free to go out and do things. I find myself being pretty jealous of her parents though, always telling her not to conform and all that (just to clarify, this book is the author's own memoir). I'm a bit jealous of just how free this girl often is. She does experience the same things many girls her age go through, including things that I go through, but even still, I simply cannot connect with her like I'm supposed to. She's so confident. I once had confidence. It slipped through my hands and eludes me. The author is an amazing girl though--a genius--and, boy, can she be eccentric. Still, even though I'm reading it, I do not feel the need to reminisce or am capable of relating to the main character.
I feel like I'm the only one who isn't entirely fond of Sound Horizon's newer albums. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of Aramary's vocals (I love her narration and voice acting though!), but it's the albums where she's the main vocalist that I like best. The Thanatos and Lost albums are my favorites, (Elysion's all right and kinda up there, too, but mostly because that was the album that introduced me to them) which I guess are the more...reserved of SH's works. It's not as if I dislike the newer ones; they're just not music I can stand to listen to for hours on end. I love how Thanatos and Lost were put together. And I've got a better grasp on Lost with translations (Thanatos is hard to find; :( ), which only made me love it more.
Ugh, it's only been a few weeks in, and I've already lost more than 10% of my grade in calc. D: I'd better do well on the next quiz! Gotta keep my GPA up and all.
I've been reading a book by Annie Dillard (An American Childhood) for my "pseudo" English class, and well......well, I have to admit, she is an AMAZING writer. Her descriptions are among the best I've ever read. They really stand out and you can feel, hear, see, know...know it all--it's so clear and vivid. But the book's a tad bland. Much of it is probably because I cannot really connect to her? I like my books best if I can really connect to something in the book. I can't with this even though that was the reason why we were asked to read it in the first place. I just feel different. Then again, I think a lot of people are in the same boat as me.
It's the 1950's. Streets were safer. People were more free to go out and do things. I find myself being pretty jealous of her parents though, always telling her not to conform and all that (just to clarify, this book is the author's own memoir). I'm a bit jealous of just how free this girl often is. She does experience the same things many girls her age go through, including things that I go through, but even still, I simply cannot connect with her like I'm supposed to. She's so confident. I once had confidence. It slipped through my hands and eludes me. The author is an amazing girl though--a genius--and, boy, can she be eccentric. Still, even though I'm reading it, I do not feel the need to reminisce or am capable of relating to the main character.
I feel like I'm the only one who isn't entirely fond of Sound Horizon's newer albums. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of Aramary's vocals (I love her narration and voice acting though!), but it's the albums where she's the main vocalist that I like best. The Thanatos and Lost albums are my favorites, (Elysion's all right and kinda up there, too, but mostly because that was the album that introduced me to them) which I guess are the more...reserved of SH's works. It's not as if I dislike the newer ones; they're just not music I can stand to listen to for hours on end. I love how Thanatos and Lost were put together. And I've got a better grasp on Lost with translations (Thanatos is hard to find; :( ), which only made me love it more.
Ugh, it's only been a few weeks in, and I've already lost more than 10% of my grade in calc. D: I'd better do well on the next quiz! Gotta keep my GPA up and all.
