8:30 AM
So begins my final
AP test.
AP Literature and Composition, 45 minute
multiple choice section, followed by a 2 hour, 3
essay section.
This year's selection:
Wordsworth ("
London, 1802") and
Dunbar ("
Douglass") poems, on people in the past, and how they would improve the author's time if brought foward. Had to
compare and contrast, then point out what they have in common.
My answer in one line: "
Every man's glorious past is another man's decrepit present" Something tells me
Frederick Douglas would no doubt have agreed.
Following that, a section from
Tom Jones, when tom finds the
baby in his bed and his
woman-servant respectfully suggests to put it in a basket outside the church. The nurse, in a few words: "If it does, so what. It'll die innocent, or become like it's mother"
Nice lady.
The third one dealt with
irrationality,
rational and
reasonable actions, and the like.
Fun stuff. Had to pick a character whose actions were seemingly irrational, but why this delusion made sense and their actions were reasonable. I went after
Edward Albee's
The Zoo Story.
Good choice, you say.
Jerry is quite a loon, and his suicide at the end puts thoughts in *what'shisname's* head about things. Not so,
I say. It's *what'shishname* that's acting
delusional (to think there is actually rationality and true order in life), and his irrational
responses to Jerry (whom, after realizing there is no such thing as a rational and sane world chooses to inflict this on *what'shisname*), while reasonable (everyone wants to maintain their idea of reality, no matter how disrupted it is), are the true act of
insanity in the story.
Longest essay was the first, covering a page and a half. I'm not much for long essays. Let's hope I get a 3, as that'll likely get me
college credit.
After which I headed to the
EAST Lab, where I fought for a few minutes with
Softimage|3D and attempting to get
Mental Ray to render using the network (but to no
avail). But you know what? I said to myself "
fuck it." I was tired, so I sat with my friends for a little while at lunch, then left.
SOMEONE PLEASE BUY ME
ANIME DVDS!!!
I need:
Trigun DVDs 1-8
Rurouni Kenshin TV disc 6
BGC2040 Discs 5&6
Gasaraki Disc 4
Escaflowne
Blue Seed and
Sorceror Hunters/
Bakaretsu Hunters
(by no means is this
request to be
taken seriously, but if you would like to send me some, feel free to /msg me!)