I enjoyed Harry Potter. I didn't think it was great, but it was fun. But the second book was always my least favourite.
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03:31:47 AM,Sunday 17 November 2002
It really is time for me to go to pottery now. I don't particularly want to leave my room. I'd rather curl back up in my bed and try to fall asleep again, cause I really don't think I got enough sleep last night, what with not being able to fall asleep cause the fucking Civ game I'd been playing kept coming to mind. But today is the last one, so I will get my Saturday mornings back for sleeping now!
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09:59:34 AM,Saturday 16 November 2002
I made salads one day at work with this other food runner (not our job, and the salad guys got paid signifigantly more than we did) and we were discussing the various things you put on salad. She was a bit confused, and thought capers were chick peas. The chick peas weren't out yet, so I was left trying to explain what a chick pea actually was. Meanwhile, she then started talking about "gorgonzola beans" and I got even more confused. There was gorgonzola out, so I pointed it out and said, that's gorgonzola. And then we found chick peas and I said these are chick peas, these are capers. I think the "gorgonzola bean" thing was confusion from "garbanzo beans."
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04:39:26 PM,Friday 15 November 2002
My air conditioner makes insane amounts of noise. I feel like I should call B&G and get them to come fix it, so it doesn't make so much noise, but if I do, I will have to admit to them that yes, in fact, I have been keeping my AC on, cause the heat gets to be too much, and there is no air circulation in the room if it isn't on. That yes, I know, it's cold outside, but they turned the heat on too high.
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04:23:44 PM,Friday 15 November 2002
One day early in the year, Christina was thinking about putting up Women's Interest posters, and was trying to think of misogynistic quotes from Program works to rile feminists up. She wanted to quote Hippolytus saying nasty stuff about women, but rather than putting the words in Hippolytus' mouth, she wanetd to attribute them to Euripides. Which is interesting, cause Euripides if nothing else writes strong women. I tried to point that out, and that Hippolytus is a character in a play, and his views are not neccessarily meant to demonstrate Euripides views of women, but she didn't want to listen. We got to talking about Euripides' strong women last night in my preceptorial, cause with only a few exceptions (Electra is a bit of a twit, and Hermione is only strong while her daddy is around to back her up) the women in Euripides are strong and stand up for themselves, and how impressive that is.
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12:49:35 PM,Friday 15 November 2002
I only have lab this morning, and we are starting Davisson, which means no more nasty equations, but all I want to do is hide in my bed.
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09:59:41 AM,Friday 15 November 2002
Euripides' plays are all full of anti-war propoganda. (Well, not all. There is no anti-war propoganda in rather a lot, but we've been reading plays that take place of the Trojan war, so they're all full of it.) It's really interesting. Hecuba, Andromache and The Trojan Women have been completely full of it, particularly Hecuba and The Trojan Women. Electra had it a bit less. Electra was rather like Aeschylus' Libation Bearers, but more bitter. He made fun of Aeschylus in the middle of the play, and we got a huge kick out of that in my preceptorial.
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07:50:27 PM,Thursday 14 November 2002
Loxias is Apollo. In case I forget, here it is.
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05:00:27 PM,Thursday 14 November 2002
We considered lynching a member of my French class this afternoon. He'd requested, demanded, whined, that we translate "The Seven Old Men" for at least a week, and we finally agreed to do it today, and he ran late enough that we weren't entirely sure he was coming to class.
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03:53:01 PM,Thursday 14 November 2002
My math class is currently doing the end of Lobochevski. For the past several weeks, our boards have been filled up with sines and cosines and pis of various things all multiplied and added and divided and doing all sorts of other things. We have this thought, in our clas, that we will really scare the sophomores who come in after us. (I think they are actually juniors, but I could be wrong.) But I think they probably just erase the board and move on.
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10:41:26 AM,Thursday 14 November 2002
I read to kids this afternoon. It was a crazy experience. There were far to many kids, and they were all off the wall, and none of them wanted to be there, as far as I could tell. Nerve wracking. Greg seemed to handle it well, but the kids with him were happy, whereas Libby and I got to deal with the girls who didn't want to be there and thought the room was too hot.
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11:35:42 PM,Wednesday 13 November 2002
Cassie and Ian Witney and I went to get tickets to see Harry Potter on Saturday, for the three of us as well as Brianne and Aidan. It's exciting. Yay, yay. And it appears Cassie and I will be able to Game as well on Saturday afternoon. And then we wandered into Borders, cause I wanted to get the new Tori Amos CD complete with bonus DVD and stickers and little plastic frogs. (And someone claims she isn't actually Del...), and Cassie got books, and I found out that there are new Griffin and Sabine books, which makes me excited. Not that I've bought any of them, but I will someday when I have money.
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09:05:26 PM,Tuesday 12 November 2002
There is a new Griffin and Sabine book, which I think could be very cool. Or it could be very cheesy, depending on why it was written.
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08:53:40 PM,Tuesday 12 November 2002
I think I need more lights in my room. I just turned them all on, and it's still not quite bright enough in here.
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12:38:20 PM,Tuesday 12 November 2002
Thunder would be nice. Thunder, weather, thunder.
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11:15:01 AM,Monday 11 November 2002
And once again I am unable to check my school email. Ah well. It isn't as though I'm actually expecting anything important there anytime soon.
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12:46:23 AM,Monday 11 November 2002
I think Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness would be very good for me right now. Unfortunately, I only have Siamese Dream.
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12:45:30 AM,Monday 11 November 2002
I wonder if the Baudelaire orphans are in fact getting older, and will the series eventually have an end?
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09:28:07 PM,Sunday 10 November 2002
I've been snacking on dried figs. I like dried figs, I have for a while. But this summer I ate a fresh fig for the first time, and when I remembered how wonderful I thought the fresh fig was, the dried fig I was eating wasn't nearly as appealing as it had been.
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08:24:34 PM,Sunday 10 November 2002