saturday at home

[clarinelf]

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Has anyone ever had the Sun-Ripened Tomato and Basil variety of Wheat Thins? My mom bought some today and I must say they are fan-bloody-tastic.

I just discovered I can record myself playing for more than a minute via some software that came with my iAudio. That'll be good for practicing for making real audition tapes at school.

I've decided that I need to relax and take things as they come, otherwise I'll never have time for the moment and lose lots of opportunities for fun.

Things to do this weekend:
- Start Sara's birthday present
- Rough draft of Gatsby essay
- First complete draft of Wooster College Scholar essay
- Chemistry homework (lab write-up, packet, and those problems for Tuesday)
- Make a decent recording of Rose etude #17
- Make that majors-degrees-careers chart thingy for parents

ETA: Gah, gah. Wooster essay turning out very strangely - mix of seriousness and sarcasm. Hard to straighten out. Sarcasm could come off as sardonic, cynical, etc. College books say "avoid humor and sarcasm unless you can pull it off effectively." How does one know if it's effective? Oh, frick on a stick.

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[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

Gatsby!!!

[clarinelf.livejournal.com]

Indeed! For the third time in a year!

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's like a lot of Gatsby.

[clarinelf.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's a "hey! could this word be symbolic??" overload, to tell the truth.

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

You know, though, with a lot of books, when people do that I feel like they're just reaching really far, but with Gatsby, I can actually imagine him putting in symbols like that.

But still, I can imagine there is such a thing as an overload. That's why I like Hamlet. Create your own symbolism!

[clarinelf.livejournal.com]

but with Gatsby, I can actually imagine him putting in symbols like that.
Definitely. I have nothing against in-depth analysis of literature, but I grow weary of Fitzgerald. Weary! Anyway . . .

Create your own symbolism, eh? I'll have to look into that.

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

The wonderful thing about putting on a play is that it is pretty easy to just throw stuff in that isn't written in, so you can add some element to it that wouldn't be possible if you were just reading a book, because it's there or it isn't, you know?

Why so much Gatsby analysis?

[clarinelf.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I've never actually been in a real play - the things in kindergarten about like the pilgrims don't really count, I don't think. But your description makes me wish I had . . . Maybe in college!

I read Gatsby last year for English, and then had to read it over the summer for an AP Language assignment . . . and now my whacko teacher is haking us read it again, from a "different perspective" and rewrite our essays.

[doubtful-salmon.livejournal.com]

Well, it could be worse. You could have been forced to read something you didn't like the first time more than once.

This is largely how I feel about Much Ado About Nothing (although funnily, I absolutely love the movie).

[clarinelf.livejournal.com]

True that.