Auditions and Funny English Teachers

[Cloud]

Because today was interesting and exciting, I have decided to tell you all about it.

1. First day after a four day weekend! The four day weekend was fun. I went to a movie (movie stunk), a concert (concert was good), a play (play was amazing) and it was my dad's birthday during it as well. Okay so that's not today, but oh well. Movie was so bad I don't want to say its name, the concert was by a neat group called Libana (it involved music from all over the world), and the play was A Comedy of Errors, and it was utterly hilarious.
Silly romance scenes + all-girl actors = funny.

2. Today was the auditions for the musical! Whee! Which involved hanging around, talking, talking some more, singing, acting a bit, and going out and talking more and doing homework. Which is more fun than it sounds. On the down side, the musical is a romantic comedy called The Boy Friend which is my favorite kind of play (sarcasm flag waving) but I'm going to make the best of it. At least it's set in the Roaring 20's so my short hair will be period-accurate. Whee!

3. Also the phone-a-thon, which is where people call people who donate money to my school and thank them. I was asked to do some calls, but I ended up only doing one because of my massive homework load. Oh well. I got a free turkey and lettuce sandwich, so it was all right.

-bores everyone to death-

Oh right, my English teacher. Well, in English we're finishing up Macbeth, and today in class we were asked to write an alternate ending to the play (changing only the last few scenes in Act 5, the last act) to make it a comedy. I think you'd have to change the whole play to make it a comedy, but that's just me. Still don't think that play is funny whatever way you spin it, unless your sense of humor is seriously twisted.

Still, I amused myself by making it so that Macbeth was allowed to live (spoiler: he dies) but had to spend his life as a servant to pay for his crimes. But I added that Macduff was so angry at him that he poisoned him and Macbeth died anyway, and no one blamed Macduff because Macbeth was such a jerkface.

Makes no sense, but neither do I.

When it was time to share, we went around the room and when I shared mine I read what I wrote, and added my thoughts about how it still wouldn't be a comedy. Some people said my version was more tragic because in a comedy people are supposed to live. I said it was comedic for the other people in the play that Macbeth died because he was so freaking insane and that if it were me I'd declare a holiday on his dying day because he did such evil things. This is what happened after I said that:

English teacher: -slides way to the other direction on the desks she's sitting on- (My English teacher is a very small woman; I mistook her for a student the first time I saw her) -while giving me a "insane much?" look-

Me: -grins happily- Well, I would!

Everyone: -busts out laughing-

Oh the craziness of my days.

[Ten]

"Movie was so bad I don't want to say its name"
--
Should've gone to see Megamind.



I haven't read Macbeth, but sounds like you had an adverse reaction to the main character, much like this one chick in my English class is having to the MC of our current novel. I dislike the guy too, but she's had some serious difficulty stomaching it all, and in group discussions all she ever talks about is how he thinks of women as lesser creatures and it's awful that he's always wishing his daughter were a boy and (she used over-exaggerated sarcasm on this next bit) maybe, just maybe, in her personal opinion it might make him a little bit uncivilized that he beats his wives for no good reason.

Over-exaggerated sarcasm bugs me, for the record.
But wife-beating is bad too. Of course.
Also, wives being plural up there -- that's on purpose.

Anyway, the whole feminism thing, I agree with some of it, but the whole rant and rage thing... it's like I'm tired of it. And that's why she keeps on bringing it up: she says people think sexism is a thing of the past and people don't make a big enough deal about it and no one's really concerned about it. And for me at least, people like her are why people like me don't care. So I guess that's the vicious cycle of issue advocacy.

Kind of a depressing note to end on. um.

In other news, a guy gave me a cookie the other day.

[Cloud]

...It actually /was/ Megamind that I saw. xD Although, when I say stunk, I'm referring to the parts of the movie that made me want to kill things slowly with time to yell and stab them. A lot.

In other words, it was half awesome, and half utter crap because the directors decided to torture me with unspeakably bad romantic scenes. My eyes burned from the ones I was forced to watch by my dad. e.e

ANYWAY, nuff said there.

Your classmate sounds a little over the top. Just a tad. -waves sarcasm flag-

Not that I don't think trying to overcome sexism isn't important - of course it is when it's a problem. But when and where it's not, there's no need to rant about it unless you're referring to a specific case (like all the mistreated women in Afghanistan; I'm currently reading a book called A Woman Among Warlords and I'm learning a lot about the situation over there) or you just sound silly and without direction or purpose.

The obsessives of any cause, I've noticed, can be the people who change things. But the ones who do the most good for their causes are the ones who know how to speak without sounding irritating or making people think "meh. Blah blah blah. I wonder what's for lunch?"

I do care, but only if someone tells me the why, where, when, how, and who. And if it's significant at all.

You make a good point about issue advocacy. Planning before anything, I say, which is why the environmental club hasn't done much yet, but that's because we're still discussing what would be the best use of our time, effort, and/or cooperation with other groups. It wouldn't do much good if we just charged out saying "WE NEED TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT! etc. etc. etc."

As well-intended as that would be, it would get us precisely nowhere.

[Ten]

"...It actually /was/ Megamind that I saw. xD"
--
Is that so?
mm. There was something... strange, I guess, about the writing (the whole movie felt like an introduction, and I'm not sure why that is) but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

"There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no Queen of England!" = one of my favorite lines.


"Although, when I say stunk, I'm referring to the parts of the movie that made me want to kill things slowly with time to yell and stab them. A lot."
--
Which would these be?


"and half utter crap because the directors decided to torture me with unspeakably bad romantic scenes. My eyes burned from the ones I was forced to watch by my dad."
--
aha.


...Wait, that movie had romantic scenes? o.o I thought it was just dating montages of Roxy and fake!Bernard. By the way, I was disappointed that we didn't get to see more of real!Bernard. With that monotone line about not being allowed to insult people directly, he seemed like he'd be an entertaining character.

Also, I enjoyed this exchange:

Roxanne: (to Metro Man) You left us in the hands of HIM! (to Megamind) No offense.
Megamind: No, I'm with you!


"Your classmate sounds a little over the top. Just a tad."
--
mm. She's right about most of it, it's just... she beats a horse to which I've already given a certificate of death, but she swears it's still breathing.


"As well-intended as that would be, it would get us precisely nowhere."
--
You could annoy some folks into creating an anti-environment group to be your rival?

/nothelping.

[Cloud]

"Is that so?
mm. There was something... strange, I guess, about the writing (the whole movie felt like an introduction, and I'm not sure why that is) but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

"There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no Queen of England!" = one of my favorite lines."

It definitely had its good moments, I won't deny it. "Did you ever think this day would come?!" "No, sir, never in a million years!" "-glare-" "I mean, yes, certainly!"

"...Wait, that movie had romantic scenes? o.o I thought it was just dating montages of Roxy and fake!Bernard. By the way, I was disappointed that we didn't get to see more of real!Bernard. With that monotone line about not being allowed to insult people directly, he seemed like he'd be an entertaining character.

Also, I enjoyed this exchange:

Roxanne: (to Metro Man) You left us in the hands of HIM! (to Megamind) No offense.
Megamind: No, I'm with you!"

I'm fairly certain it did...but you know what, I'm going to go with your train of thought and believe there weren't any, which makes me a lot happier.

"mm. She's right about most of it, it's just... she beats a horse to which I've already given a certificate of death, but she swears it's still breathing."

OHNOES IT'S A ZOMBIE HORSE, IT MUST BE FIREFAIL'S COUSIN. DESTROY!

"You could annoy some folks into creating an anti-environment group to be your rival?

/nothelping."

I see what you're referencing there. xD

[Ten]

x.x Cloud, it's becoming harder for me to tell where the quoting ends and you speaking begins.


"DESTROY!"
--
AIMING THE NUKES, CAPTAIN.


"I see what you're referencing there."
--
Actually, you don't, since I wasn't intending to reference anything. What was--

OH. ohwowi'mlame. aha.

So um. I just watched some awesome vlogbrothers videos.
One day I need to read a John Green book.
Oh speaking of books. Most recent non-assignment thing I read: You.
Odd name for a book. Kind of awkward.

"Hey, watcha readin'?"
"You."

And it was written in second person, which at times makes sense and at times feels as jarring as seeing my math teacher in the library ("Good morning, Ten." "You're a math teacher! What are you doing in the library?" "The class is using insert name of mathy computer program available on the library's computers." Yeah, right).

Anyway. The main character is a terrible loser. I mean it. Not like loser like it's kind of sweet. No. He's pathetic. He's made of human and not cardboard, though, and the writer seemed like he knew what he was doing. He (still talking about the author, Charles Benoit) gets a gold star for the excellence that is the beginning, too.

I hate when authors start off a book talking about what the weather is like that day and how the sunlight reflects off the hillsides. Unless the weather at that precise moment consists of five tornadoes, that's a terrible way to convince a reader that this book is worth their time.

Now go find out the first sentence of You and see how it compares.