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ASK YOURSELF in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity..." - Rainer Maria Rilke
Watch it burn, let it die, because we are finally free
Today I woke up at noon.

Fooled around with Jenny, harassed the neighbors over IM, etc., etc.

Read and finished Impulse. Hopkin's books always end badly, don't they? But I think it just adds to their charm, if you know what I mean. smile

Then I walked around in a daze, my head swimming. That's the adjective that came to mind: swimming. Does everybody's head do that or is it just mine?

I also always find myself doing commentary like, "Oh, that's so epic" or "That description just pulled the entire plot into clarity". And usually, with Hopkin's books, I find myself debating the word "beautiful".

It's a very abject (*utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched*) word for me, and extremely abstract. To me, something ugly that can, with words, be seen as lovely is the essence of beauty.

...Well, at least that's what I decided today. I almost always reach the same conclusion each time I debate with myself, only in a different syntax. It varies.

Also, I was browsing one of my mangas and I came across a very interesting word: servile. So diligent word-loving me looked it up.

Servile: slavishly submissive

rofl

What you can do with words!

Oh! My grades. I'm sure you all are waiting with baited breath. rolleyes

Advisory: Pass

Science: Exam= B (without my extra credit! evil ), Final= B

PE 1: Exam= B-, Final= C-

Spanish: Exam= A ( eek ), Final= B

Geometry: Exam= A-, Final= B- (I think that's pretty good for not doing any homework. wink )

AWC: Exam= B+, Final= A-

English: Exam= A (expected), Final= B- (also expected)

My mom flipped when she saw my final mark for English. Apparently she doesn't get my way of veiwing things (that even though all my work is late and get automatic F's, it doesn't count since I got a perfect score before the lateness deduction was taken) and she said if I'm not getting AT LEAST an A in English II next year, she's going to beat me.

e_e

I sorry, mami. Don't beat me. emo

Quote of the (yester)day: "I s**t you not."






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ChristeneDaae
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commentCommented on: Wed Jun 25, 2008 @ 03:52am
I think Impulse was the happiest ending yet, all the others left me crumpled in a sobbing ball, but at leas tthis one has like, some good part to its ending as well


haha its a good thing you did track otherwise mrs. fournier might have failed you xD


commentCommented on: Wed Jun 25, 2008 @ 04:11am
Really? For Impulse? I suppose so, if you take into account Tony and Vanessa getting together and getting promised a happier future. But I liked Conner best, and seeing him starting at the top (seeming to be the one least messed up at Aspen Springs) and then slowly spiral downward really depressed me..

I think Hopkin's grim humor is so awesome. whee



bushy_haired_freak
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ChristeneDaae
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commentCommented on: Wed Jun 25, 2008 @ 04:44pm
wel i think it was happie than Burned where the guy left her and she ended up having a miscarrige
or crank where she ends up pregnant from the guy who raped her and pretty much dead from meth
and def better than glass, b ut idk if you've read that yet so i wont spoil the ending


commentCommented on: Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 02:30am
Yeah, but Burned was so fantasy-like (at least in the middle). I didn't like how she just happened to find her perfect love and every thing was perfectly perfect. I do like the religious tension and her suicide at the end tho..

And with Crank, even though all that s**t happened to her, most of it wouldn't have happened if she had stayed away from the monster in the first place. I kind of feel like she did it to herself.



bushy_haired_freak
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ChristeneDaae
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commentCommented on: Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 07:09pm
sure, burned might have been the happiest book, but impulse was th ehappiest ending


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