I don't really know what to write today. My muse appears absent. Maybe it's because I didn't finish my last post until Thursday. Maybe it's because I have totally wrecked any semblance of a sleep schedule playing video games and hanging out with people. Maybe its because I'm wiped out at the halfway point of the quarter, but at the same time motivated to really get ahead. I dunno! But I'm going to do the writer's technique we learned in sophomore English class where you just write until you know what you're writing. This'll be a trip...
The first thought that came to mind is my reading about this new movie, Anonymous. I keep thinking its a documentary about the internet group Anonymous, which if you haven't heard of them, they do kinda serious kinda funny hacker pranks on various groups, organizations and people. For example, they will spam a website of a company they don't like until it crashes, or release personal information about a person the web. Interesting group. Don't wanna get on their bad side.
Anyway! The movie is actually about the purported REAL writer of the Shakespeare plays, Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who some theorists claim is the actual author. This, of course, is generally denounced as imaginative by critics and scholars, especially since the main rationale is that someone uneducated at a university couldn't possibly have written so well. Yes, education is important but you don't think an actor could learn the art of writing plays? Silly. Some people just trying to make money off conspiracies. It sounds like the movie wasn't terribly good but a nice period set. I bring it up because I saw a few ads for it and it makes me sad that people don't believe in Shakespeare, but also hopeful that even a negative portrayal of him would get more students interested in reading his plays, which are among my favorites. "Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day" and Shakespeare shall remain one of the greatest writers. period.
My friend Little Joyful, who lives here in Columbus with me, has recently become engaged. I've met her fiance just once, but he seems pretty nice an I'm really excited for them. That makes three people I know who are engaged, a good handful of people on facebook who suddenly pop up as married, and two weddings that I've already gone to THIS MONTH. I know it comes in waves starting at about this age, but its kinda trippy nonetheless. I had a conversation about marriage with Dungeon Daddy, who has had several friends of his get married recently too. He was just in New Orleans for a wedding himself. In our talk, we both agreed that all these weddings make you think about your own. But not in the plan your own wedding sort of way. In the "I am in no freaking way ready to get married" sort of way. It is an interesting thought. I wonder if anyone is ever really READY to get married? I think I'll just worry about keeping my own life in order for now. It crazy enough as it is. "The course of true love never did run smooth..."
In hearing about the rolling blackouts and snowfall on the east coast (poor Micki Granger, she's basically a popsicle already), I am reminded of the new adage "Winter is coming". My goal this week: purchase warmer clothes. I think I have enough to survive until the first snow fall. But that's it. I've already been freezing walking outside in my warmest coat twice. Both of those days were sunny, but here, the sun is a lie. Someone mentioned that when the snow and ice start falling here, the only time people go out is to get alcohol. Scary. "Blow blow thou winter wind"!
Speaking of alcohol, I was at a tailgate yesterday. Put a bunch of new friends in a room all of whom have been in frats, sororities and just drank a lot in college, and you get drunken debauchery. I've never actually been at a party where people shotgunned a beer before, so that as interesting. Maybe it's because I can't drink beer, but I have managed to avoid most drinking games, which if I do play, I play for the game, not the drinking. I do like a mean game of quarters. As I may have said before, I'm glad that they have cider. A nice equivalent to beer for those of us who cannot take in the hops. Thanks to Spam Boa, I discovered a new Torched Cherry Bacardi Rum. Add that to coke and you are drinking a cherry coke. Take it straight and its like a cherry lollipop. Very Dangerous. I brought a bottle to the tailgate. It was gone by the end of the night. Those kids were nice and warm at the game that's for sure. "O God, that men/ should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away / their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance /revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"
I think that's enough wandering for one day. At least I didn't talk about theory, which I have been reading on and off all day. Until next time, onto "Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day til the last syllable of recorded time."
Quotes from Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Othello and Macbeth. Can you tell which was my favorite?
-JTY
Listening to: Nostrand by Ratatat which is the song used in the first Summercamp staff video and reminds me of my old staffs. Awww good times.
Reading: Student Development in College- It's kinda funny how much of this I remember from undergrad, when I taught the RA and College Survival classes. I'm gunna be a theory expert by the time I'm done here (suddenly there was a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of RAs suddenly cried out in terror...)
Playing: Beat Fallout New Vegas today instead of working. Add that to my League of Legends night on Friday with Spam Boa, Dungeon Daddy and Heavy Spy and I had a nice video game weekend. Too bad I didn't get enough work done...
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