Zoe’s Journal

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One of the questions on my English literature test is this:

“Analyze the themes of superstition versus religion in ‘Silas Marner’. How does Silas reject one and embrace the other? (25 points)”

Ummm… how can one both embrace and reject the SAME FRICKIN’ THING?

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Oh, don’t worry. I realize what they’re asking. But they should know better than that.

I took this Friday off of work, expecting that I would finish my homework early and start studying for my test and working on the essay due for my other class. So much for grand ambitions! I went shopping, sunbathing, had a nice bath, cooked a nice dinner and mixed a few good drinks… played games, and did about everything required for a relaxing weekend - no homework allowed.

So this morning I woke around 9:30 or so. The LotR and I hiked up Squaw Peak and then went to the grocery store. When we got home around 1, I made some tomato soup for lunch and went out again to sunbathe. But this time I took my homework outside with me, and finished the part that was due this evening. Now all that’s left is to transcribe it into an electronic version and submit it online.

Then, of course, by Monday, I have an essay and test due. No problem - the test is open-book, and essays are usually fun to write (I would say always, but my last essay was the horrendous assignment to analyze ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’!) After submitting my homework, I am going to take a shower and relax some more. Maybe I’ll fish in the World of Warcraft while musing over the essay in my head. We’ll see.

For now, that’s all.

Romeo:
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Romeo And Juliet Act 2, scene 2, 2–6

I need to read more.

Better yet, I want to connect my brain to a vast store of classical literature and simply download it all into storage for analyzing and debating at later times. I have so many books to read! Soooo many. Here’s a partial list:

Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Marquez
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Bronte
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Mill on the Floss- George Eliot
War of Flowers - Tad Williams
Restoration - Carol Berg
The Dragon Nimbus - Irene Radford
The Elenium - David Eddings
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
The entire Memory, Shadow & Thorn trilogy
about 6 Shannara books by Terry Brooks

… and those are only SOME of the books on my shelf that I’ve yet to read! Not to mention all of the electronic books on my wonderful Sony Reader.

My, I do love to read. Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough time in the world. What with working 40+ hours a week, working out after works, catching American Idol on Tuesdays, doing something or other on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, cramming for homework on Friday, shopping and cramming more on Saturday, ‘chilaxxing’ on Sundays, and cramming for another class on Mondays. And blogging about it all. I mean, seriously.

Okay, so maybe I read on Sundays sometimes. I try to read only on weekends because if I start a good book I WON’T put it down until it’s done. I mean, CAN’T. yeah. But anyway, I was thinking about this yesterday. The past couple of weeks I’ve really had to get a lot done at work. And more the work I have to do, the more I get done! And it doesn’t usually involve working late (since, you know, I have to go to the gym after work), but it gets done. So I thought, “Maybe I should start up another college course! Maybe it would inspire me to spread out my studying so that I don’t cram so much when it’s due!” Nice idea, huh?

I’m still thinking about it. I do have an unopened LOMA book sitting on top of my filing cabinet at work. Perhaps I should get started on that, instead, and get it out of the way.

This is some weird mood afflicting me tonight. I should go sleep it off.