The first two episodes of the new season of The Tudors have appeared online and I, being the good student that I am, watched them. I don’t have the time now to do a proper review, so here are my thoughts:
-Charles Brandon/Duke of Suffolk is so sad. The first picture is his only happy moment. What a change from season 1.
-Catherine Howard giggles so much it’s hilarious.
-I’m afraid the actress of Elizabeth isn’t very good. I hope she improves.
-The scene with Mary and Chapuys made me ;_; (second last picture) It’s even sadder to me because Mary I wanted so badly to marry and have children and, although she married, her husband was always away and she never had children.
-Joss Stone is baaaack as Anne of Cleves (fourth picture)!
-Henry is the only character who’s “aged” believably. They’ve tried to age Henry Cavill, but Charles still looks young, even with the beard.
-Puppies!
-Thomas Culpepper is a jerk. I thought he would just be a pretty boy who’d get to romance Catherine, but he’s evil.
What else? I am listening to the audiobook of The Picture of Dorian Gray. So far it’s a confusion of morals and art. I need to read more Rose Turquand tonight.
Thymaster
Posted by Sarks on March 09, 2010 • General
My sister showing me how to use her thymaster thighmaster and not knowing I was recording. Yeah. I’m immature.
Essays
Posted by Sarks on March 08, 2010 • School
I want to write these down here while I am in the mood for thinking about it. Dawn reminded me to get ordering books so I don’t leave it too late. I also went to the library and found a bunch. I feel very scholarly now that I will have a giant row of library books on my floor- I still have books out from before. Oh my. Which reminds me… my room needs its weekly cleaning. I also need to stop being so tired so I can do it… Anyways, essays…
Stuart England: Women and witchcraft and how it relates to the Civil War or Puritanism or Protestantism in general. I have no idea what the main argument will be. Does the rise of more radical Protestantism have anything to do with witchcraft trials’ being the way they were in the sixteenth century? NO IDEA.
Victorian Novel: The “fallen woman” in Victorian literature. I forget what books those are. I ordered a few books via DocDel. Whew.
Restoration Comedy: NO IDEA.
Canadian Lit: Women in DeNiro’s Game. No idea what else.
Renaissance: Pandosto. All’s I know is that I read it. What am I going to write about it? NO IDEA.
I still need to look up my precis assignment topic. Whoops. If I don’t get the rest of my little assignments done this week I’m in trouble!
I’m lurking in the hallway in front of Reeves’ classroom. I hope my group shows up early like they said. I don’t really know if they had a set place or if we were going to meet early. I said here when we were talking about it. Ah, well. I’m scared to read this thing in front of class. I say read because I can’t present.
Was… was that a dog? ANYWAYS. I’m so sorry for being so boring. Well, I mean… Sorry, Dawn, for being so dull.
[6:30 pm]
I got When the Elephants Dance in the mail! It was $8… so I was surprised that a hardcover in relatively good condition showed up. The cover is pretty. Anyway, I was thinking about that book since reading Japanese/Chinese-Canadian literature in Canadian Lit. Whenever Asian lit is studied, it seems to always be either Japanese or Chinese (and I really wanted to read something I could relate to a tiny bit). I remembered WtED because it takes place in the Philippines. I accidentally picked it up at Boucherie once and never got to read it all.
I have a cat sitting job this week. I have a love-hate relationship with that annoying siamese cat. He’s adorable because of how irritating he is.
You are the moon that breaks the night
Posted by Sarks on March 08, 2010 • School
I know it’s late, but I feel like posting my poast of end-of-assignment triumph. I am done my seminar work. All’s I gotta do now is read it in front of the class. I don’t really want to do that. Firstly, I think I wrote too much on travel literature (sixteenth-century England) and too little on tragedy. But I had to divide my four minutes of talking between those two topics and had little to say for tragedy. I think I did it wrong, too. Now I have to check…
Checked. I have no idea what she means by “detailed presentation notes, point form preferred.” I have my write-up of what I am going to read. Does that count? It isn’t point form. Ugh, I don’t know! I am going crazy. I can’t present if I can’t read what I’ve written.
Currently obsessed with “Howl” by Florence + The Machine. I downloaded the CD tonight to listen to while writing.
I think awards shows bring out the worst in some people. Simmer down, people. No need to trash every dress you hate and every actor you dislike. Jeez.
Dear Diary
Posted by Sarks on March 07, 2010 • General
Today I was super exhausted. I had a full night’s sleep and yet I woke up feeling like crap. Good story.
I tried to read Rose Turquand. I read only the beginning and I like it so far. I gave up on finishing Hard Times (if I’m not done now then what’s the point?). I put off my seminar points and will work on it before and after work tomorrow. My group person said she could compile the presentation Monday morning, so I will get it done Sunday night.
Dawn and I went on a rather satisfying Timmy’s run.
Yay Tyler’s at work tomorrow. That’s the only good thing about working tomorrow. Even though I haven’t worked in two weeks >_<
I capped Spartacus 1.5. I hadn’t finished the episode so I downloaded an HD version. The show’s gotten better, I guess. Not good, but better. I’m pretty sure I’ll watch any historical show that’s on these days even if it sucks. I dislike it when shows have characters that are only there for shock value. Like, give characters a story, will ya?
I finished capping while watching Gladiator as well. It was gladiator overload. The end of Gladiator has got to be one of my favorites.
I’m also going to try and write stuff down for my story tonight. I have three characters and I love their names. I just… don’t have the time to write these days. I haven’t since first year =(.
Night.
Updates
Posted by Sarks on March 06, 2010 • General, School
-I spent the last two days working on my annotation assignment and freaking out over my group project. My group changed proposals (and forwarded me e-mails in the morning so I had no idea “tomorrow” meant that day and missed another meeting). The bad thing was that I worked at reading for the first proposal when I could have spent that time on the Restoration thing. The good thing is that I got more reading out of the way and can use Pandosto, which I liked, for my essay. I don’t think I did my annotation assignment right. Eggleston is grading the introduction and annotations equally even though the latter took hours longer to finish.
-I was relieved to be finished the assignment and could barely bring myself to do even more reading on the bus this morning. It wasn’t that long, but I was tired and grumpy. When I got to school, I seriously nearly gagged trying to sign in at the Collegium. B.O. man at the desk had strange cheese in his lunch. It was so gross. I did not want to breathe.
-The Room is delightfully awful. It was nice not forcing myself to do anything important tonight.
-I no longer want to be in school. I want to quit. Like right now.
-Ancient Greece project with Henry Cavill a little closer to being made. OH HENRY. Filming begins April 7.
-Thank you, Dagung, for ENDORPHINS.
-Happy Sabbath, me. I’m glad for one day to catch up- sleep, read, and so on.
-A thought this week about certain posters at school: Why can’t we promote the stopping of violence against all people?
Nocturne
Posted by Sarks on March 03, 2010 • General
Hi. Just wanted to come on here and complain. I finished The Unfortunate Traveller and Pandosto this afternoon. I tried to start Urania, but I was lost and confused twenty [computer] pages into it. So now I am starting The London Cuckholds for Friday’s assignment in Restoration Comedy. I am so overwhelmed with readings right now. A new wave of anxiety hit me and I was afraid I would feel like I did last week. Ah, well. The first two stories were interesting. Pandosto was actually really romantic in a fluffy, simple kind of way. I liked it. I have a summary of The Old Arcadia to read and apparently Urania is based on it. That should be it for my Renaissance readings for now. I am more angry at the fact I waited so long to print the entirety of Urania. I should have had a side prepared for our Charles I debate tomorrow in history, but I don’t have time. I also would like to finally finish Hard Times.
I’m also anxious about meeting with my group for Renaissance. I e-mailed to ask if certain days were good. I never heard back from that person. The other two group members haven’t tried to contact me. I know they’re busy, too, but I’m only free Thursday during my break (or after class) and Saturday. Our seminar is on Monday.
Good news! Game of Thrones was greenlit today for an entire season! This makes me so happy and excited.
Carrier of a Secret
Posted by Sarks on March 02, 2010 • General
Last night my sister watched The Crazies, got freaked out, and came to my room at around 12:30 with her blanket. So I let her sleep in my bed. We ended up talking until 2:45 or something. It was really late when I fell asleep. It was a surprisingly good sisterly chat. Listening to her impressions of her silly friends makes me laugh.
I’ve decided to only get L coffees from now on. Thas’right.
Some people are dumb. See… eh ummmmmm. Yeah.
I had more to say! Um, group projects suck. I feel bad for skipping class because my group never e-mailed me and did the proposal without me… even though I tried to contact both of them Saturday. Whatever. They said they would send me the proposal but it’s midnight and I haven’t received it yet. I sent out another e-mail, so I hope they respond to that one. I am more than half-finished the book. I still don’t understand it. I only understand the Tudor history.
I am brrrrrr. Cold.
Poor thing.
Oh! A new behind-the-scenes featurette for The Tudors came out. My Tamzin does NOT look like a ghoul (stupid Tyler). She looks awesome as Catherine Howard.
Chino was acting strange
Posted by Sarks on March 01, 2010 • General
The first 15 seconds is really all this video is good for =\.
New Layout
Posted by Sarks on February 28, 2010 • General
I stole the template from the layout Amanda made me and I forget where I found the pretty picture. I am so glad the weekend is here. I also have no work again this week. Woot and boo at the same time.
Today is dedicated to reading, websites, and watching The Big Theory. I’m not sure if I like it yet, but I’m downloading season one.
[3:12 pm]
Canada won gold! I have never heard the national anthem so many times in a span of two weeks.