homework break

Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Nearest book is The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin. Five sentence on page 23:

The old man kept looking at me inquisitively with his single eye.

I'm enjoying the Pushkin so far, actually -- the lecture on Wednesday was really interesting, and I'm digging the reading so far. I still have "The Queen of Spades" to read and a few poetry excerpts (though the translation is dubious quality for those). Sometime over the next week or two I need to write my critique of the movie Onegin, too. Which will probably some down to the fact that it really wasn't very good. I think the process of translating a classic piece of writing to screen must always be a hard task, but a classic novel in verse seems like an especially challenging thing. At any rate, the movie was very very slow and very very artistic -- the kind of artistic that's incredibly self-conscious about it, though, so it comes off as pretention more than anything else. It's all very meaningful, dammit! Appreciate my deep sense of artistry!

Also, I can't tell if I really dislike Ralph Fiennes or if I just really dislike him in this movie.

Hey! The cover of my copy of Pushkin's stories is designed by Edward Gorey! Nifty. My extra icons have run out, so I will stick with my "school" symbol rather than either of the "Gorey" ones, however.

buffy, yay; food, boo

Last night I figured out that the cords for my laptop are long enough to reach my bed. So last night I lay stretched out on my stomach and opened up my Buffy season one dvds for the first time.

Season one I'm still kind of sketchy on -- I mean, I've seen The Puppet Show five times if I've seen it once, but there are episodes I'd never seen at all before, and only know from being around people. So last night I watched The Witch and Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, and this morning I watched The Pack.

The first and the last of those were rather creepier than I expecting, actually. Especially the last shot in The Witch, because ... eep.

Also, Buffy was super hot first season. And Willow and Xander were both adorable. *heart*

I really need to go food shopping the next few days. There's probably eighty million tasty things to do with the small amount of food I've got left, but I'm having trouble finding what. I did finally make my cauliflower tonight, though, despite the lack of either a blender (I wanted cream of cauliflower soup, dammit!) or a steamer, and it turned out tasty. The experiment last night with the rice pilaf and bacon turned out horribly bland, though. Hmmm.

( contents of my pantry and fridge )