| Dec. 18th, 2009 @ 02:19 am party like it's 1904 |
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Current Music: "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" by Tears For Fears
My "FUCK YEAH THIS SEMESTER IS OVER" anthem. 90's dance music is the best, guys. The best. EVERYBODY EVERYBODY EVERYBODY EVERYBODY EVERYBODY EVERYBODY EVERYBODY EVERYBODY
( an overview of my classes. I didn't really want this to be long enough for a cut but it totally is so oh well here you go )
tl;dr, that was my worst semester at this school yet, which is disappointing but I still learned a lot, academically and personally speaking, and already feel confident about next semester (I know I always say this, but hey maybe this will actually be the semester where my confidence does not end up getting shot).
( next semester's tentative schedule )
I'm really relieved and so glad it's over, so much so that I'm not (at the moment) even feeling any guilt for what could be some pretty bad grades. For one month I can relax and renew myself for 2010.
As for everything else in my life, well there's Christmas coming up. Unfortunately this year I'm not really feeling it. Not disliking it, just not all ~*omg holiday spirit*~. Perhaps it just needs some time to sink in since I've been focusing so much on school. Tonight I was admiring my mother's Christmas village while it was all lit up in a dark room and that was very pleasant. She keeps a church on another table that's about 4 feet from the one with the rest of the village on it and I like to pretend it's the church of that village, that is for some reason far away from everything else. Perhaps it's situated in the woods, and the people get to admire the beauty of nature and freshly fallen snow while they make their way to Christmas Mass.
My father purchased the special edition Blu-Ray of Inglourious Basterds a couple days ago and I have already fangirled hardcore. Can't deny I'm kinda disappointed by the extras, especially since either our player or the disc is an ass and makes it very hard to play them properly. But they were a bit lacking, too. Spotted some brief shots of scenes that could be from this prequel I keep hearing about, like Donny sitting in some fancy living room sipping a cup of tea, or Landa and Goebbels sitting in the cinemaaaaah smoking together. God I hope we can see those, because they were definitely NOT in the deleted scenes. I rather like the "Hi Sallys," especially "Hi Sally, I'm not actually dead, I'm just pretending, and soon I'm going to get up and kick his Nazi balls!" (apparently the phrase "Nazi balls" caught on after what happened in the tavern scene). Also "Inglourious Basterds: even history gets 'Basterd'-ized" THANK YOU BRAD PITT, you are so very right about that.
Watched another beautiful movie tonight called The Brothers Bloom. Had it sitting around for awhile, the impending doom of school work kept me from it until now. Glad I put it off actually since I was truly able to enjoy it, no pressure to do homework. If you haven't seen it, do. That's all I can say. It has Adrien Brody in it. Who doesn't love Adrien Brody?
And with that, I leave you with this quote from the movie, said by a character who is now one of my favorites in... anything, really, not just live action movies. It isn't often that I truly admire a character outside of anime, but this one is truly incredible. Watch the scene this is from if you'd like a taste of the movie before seeing all of it.
The trick to not feeling cheated is to learn how to cheat. So, I decided this wasn't a story about a miserable girl trapped in a house that smelled like medical supplies, wasting her life on a dying person she sometimes hated. No, this was a story about a girl who could find infinite beauty in anything. Any little thing. And even love the person she was trapped with. And I told myself this story until it became true. Now, did doing this help me escape a wasted life? Or, did it blind me to where I wouldn't want to escape it? I dunno. But either way, I was the one telling my own story, so, no, I don't feel cheated. At all.
- Penelope Stamp, played by Rachel Weisz, from The Brothers Bloom |
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