Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A Sonnet I've Written for Class
Not Really as Such
I’ve painted my fingernails multiple hues
With polka dots, triangles, squiggles and squares
In purples and pinks and in crystalline blues
It earned me some notice; it earned me some stares
And compliments came from the art-inclined kind
When I copied some painter with painstaking care
With miniscule pen and with pigment so fine
You could see every strand of the mother’s brown hair
As she carefully washed all the dirt off the feet
Of the child she held, so rotund and so pink
I also did still-life, a bowl filled with beets
Or a basket of raspberries washed in the sink
Though none of it mattered, not really as such,
‘Cause he didn’t act like he noticed them much
Monday, March 29, 2010
My Apologies for the Delay
Life, such as it is, has completely taken over.
The final semester is, to put it simply, BUSY. I am trying to pass all of my classes, as you saw in the previous post, with a goal of nothing less than two B's and my sights set on Summa. I also have applied for Grad school, am trying to get into the Alpha Chi group, and also trying to keep my job at the library while realizing that I may not make it through the summer unless I find another job as well, as I believe I will be earning only $70 per week... I am, in the words of Prince Humperdinck, swamped.
I must recognize, however, that I have been doing quite a few recreational activities lately. This last weekend, for example, I watched movies at my friend's new boyfriend's house on Friday, saw the Shriner Circus on Saturday, and went to Norman to the Medieval Fair yesterday. Today, also, I have agreed to meet up with another of my friends, whose wedding is a mere nineteen days away, to help her prepare bouquets of some sort. Then, of course, my school week begins, during which I must read a few hundred pages of accumulated prose and write a rhymed sonnet. I find that if I think about these things, I panic just a wee bit.
So... I will think only of what needs to be done today, and definitely take it easy with the hanging out with friends.
The final semester is, to put it simply, BUSY. I am trying to pass all of my classes, as you saw in the previous post, with a goal of nothing less than two B's and my sights set on Summa. I also have applied for Grad school, am trying to get into the Alpha Chi group, and also trying to keep my job at the library while realizing that I may not make it through the summer unless I find another job as well, as I believe I will be earning only $70 per week... I am, in the words of Prince Humperdinck, swamped.
I must recognize, however, that I have been doing quite a few recreational activities lately. This last weekend, for example, I watched movies at my friend's new boyfriend's house on Friday, saw the Shriner Circus on Saturday, and went to Norman to the Medieval Fair yesterday. Today, also, I have agreed to meet up with another of my friends, whose wedding is a mere nineteen days away, to help her prepare bouquets of some sort. Then, of course, my school week begins, during which I must read a few hundred pages of accumulated prose and write a rhymed sonnet. I find that if I think about these things, I panic just a wee bit.
So... I will think only of what needs to be done today, and definitely take it easy with the hanging out with friends.
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