A lot of little things

[icepixie]

I have gone forth into battle with my scrapbook, and I have defeated the mighty beast! Well, mostly. We'll see how well it holds up. It uses these little steel spindle-looking things that are about a quarter of an inch long to hold the pages onto the binding. You expand it by adding more of them. If one of these things equals roughly twenty front and back pages, and I have a total of five...well, yeah. And I think I'll still have pictures left over. Ow. And no matter how many pages I put together (I'm at mid-March right now), the pile doesn't seem to get any smaller. Sisyphus, meet rock.

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I got Contact from Netflix a few days ago for want of anything better to rent. Seen it a couple times before, but I do love it. I remember the first time I saw it (in the theatre), I was thirteen or so, and I was all, "I'm gonna be Ellie someday!" However, that was the summer before I started Algebra. I mention that because that class that informed in no uncertain terms that I was never, ever, ever going to make it as an astrophysicist, whereas before I'd been the girl who read the entire physics/astronomy section at the library (skipping over the math, of course) at age twelve. Math and I do not get along AT ALL.

Now a very, very small part of me still wants to be Ellie, but I spent most of the movie this time ogling the camera work. Okay, the long pans and zooms could have been cut a bit and the movie made about half an hour shorter, but they're still preeeeetty. So very pretty.

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I made soda bread last night from a recipe here (scroll down until you get to "white soad bread"). Surprisingly enough, it tastes exactly like...buttermilk biscuits. Hmmm. That couldn't possibly be because they're made from the exact same ingredients. Never. But it's thick and crumbly instead of light and flaky, and at any rate it's very tasty, if not quite what I was expecting after having had the real thing in Ireland a few months ago. I'll have to try the brown bread sometime soon.

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And now, progress report on the

Summer Reading List from Hell

Beowulf
Paradise Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream
George Herbert - Various poems
A. Pope - The Rape of the Lock; An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Jane Austen - Persuasion (Only a little more than halfway, technically, but who's counting?)
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw (Finished last night, wheee!)
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
V.S. Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas (Ewwwww.)
Audre Lorde - Zami, A New Spelling of My Name
Eavan Boland - Various poems

Next up is Zami, then Paradise Lost, then finishing Persuasion. Then probably one of the Blakes and the Pope. So a text a week until I'm back at Kenyon, which leaves three more for Thanksgiving and Christmas, then all of spring break to review everything before the test.

Yes, Virginia, I am saving you for DEAD LAST. HA.

Comments

[vbrooksutk.livejournal.com]

Oh I for sure have a ton of scrapbook papers from my pre-summer school & job days, perhaps we can meet up sometime and I can bestow my paper happiness upon you... =)

[icepixie]

That would be AWESOME.

I'm so spending way too much money on this. But I'm not going back to Michael's, Hobby Lobby, or Joann's until this thing is DONE, so I can't spend any more money on papers or stickers or refill pages!