Have laptop, will travel
Friday night again. To cap it all off, it's Halloween weekend. My roommate is carving pumpkins in our room with her friends, and so I no longer have a nice, quiet place to unwind and do work, or even a chair for that matter. I am definitely going to get a single room for myself next year.
Friday night has got so exciting that I have removed myself - together with my beloved laptop, my Six Feet Under DVD from Netflix, assorted computing paraphernalia, Japanese textbook, notebook and homework - from the room that is not quite mine, and set off on a quest for the perfect Friday night refuge.
And I have found it. Keeney Quadrangle has a study room with carrels on the top floor of Mead House, which is completely deserted most of the time and according to my roomie, is 'creepy at night'. Oh, not at all. I think it's perfect. It's well-lit and comfortable, there are Ethernet ports and power outlets, the clean and efficient decor, the privacy of the carrels and the lack of noisy company all agree with me. As a bonus, I do not have to put a single foot out of Keeney and brave the 4degC autumnal chill just to find a decent place to study.
It's so cold that I've taken to putting tubs of yoghurt or bottles of milk out on the window ledge (in front of the storm window, behind the mosquito screen) at night. In the absence of luxury household appliances, one has to improvise. Besides, it's helpful to think of the freezing cold as a resource instead of my nemesis.
words were spilled on Friday, October 28, 2005
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tsk. and here i thought you were going to try to be social.
incidentally, i have watched casablanca. it is so moving pictures it is utterly terrible. and humphrey bogart elopes with captain renault at the end, very romantic.
incidentally, i have watched casablanca. it is so moving pictures it is utterly terrible. and humphrey bogart elopes with captain renault at the end, very romantic.
# posted by 
: 11:28 AM
: 11:28 AM
Is that why you haven't been online? Is is ever going to be cold enough to have ice outside? You'll have a freezer! :)
# posted by : 1:54 PM
: 1:54 PM
jy: a beautiful _friendship_ does not an elopement make. still, your interpretation holds a certain attraction.
amanda: oh yes, it's definitely going to get cold enough to serve as a freezer. brrrr.
amanda: oh yes, it's definitely going to get cold enough to serve as a freezer. brrrr.
they'd have to call it a friendship, of course. but they were making eyes at each other and everything.
the trailers are hilarious. i am utterly mortified to find that dibbler so was not making any of it up.
(HUMPHREY BOGART - AS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE MOST DANGEROUS CITY! INGRID BERGMAN - FIGHTING THE STRANGE ATTRACTION THAT BRINGS HER CLOSER AND CLOSER TO HIM!)
... i don't understand why everyone thinks the quote is 'play it again, sam'. nobody says that in the show.
tell me, brenda, you know these things. why is this movie supposed to be the greatest thing hollywood ever made?
love, and take care.
the trailers are hilarious. i am utterly mortified to find that dibbler so was not making any of it up.
(HUMPHREY BOGART - AS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE MOST DANGEROUS CITY! INGRID BERGMAN - FIGHTING THE STRANGE ATTRACTION THAT BRINGS HER CLOSER AND CLOSER TO HIM!)
... i don't understand why everyone thinks the quote is 'play it again, sam'. nobody says that in the show.
tell me, brenda, you know these things. why is this movie supposed to be the greatest thing hollywood ever made?
love, and take care.
# posted by : 9:34 PM
: 9:34 PM
yeah, the actual quote is 'play it, sam'. well, quotes do get distorted sometimes when they pass into popular culture.
i like the song, though. and sentimentality works for me sometimes, and it worked for me in casablanca.
it is? i thought the greatest thing that hollywood ever made was 'the godfather'.
casablanca scores on being romantic, overblown and cliched/ archetypal. there's a certain attraction in that. which is why i suppose it's considered a classic. there's probably a ton of essays out there analysing why.
oh, and supposedly it didn't have a proper script. they just made it up as they went along.
did you watch it for your 4D class?
i like the song, though. and sentimentality works for me sometimes, and it worked for me in casablanca.
it is? i thought the greatest thing that hollywood ever made was 'the godfather'.
casablanca scores on being romantic, overblown and cliched/ archetypal. there's a certain attraction in that. which is why i suppose it's considered a classic. there's probably a ton of essays out there analysing why.
oh, and supposedly it didn't have a proper script. they just made it up as they went along.
did you watch it for your 4D class?
i dunno, the dvd box said it was. i couldn't say. i found it... terribly funny. i'm sure i'm not supposed to respond that way.
no, my brother borrowed it from the esplanade. maybe we should watch gone with the wind next.
(it appears that i will probably end up majoring in film. this makes me slightly uneasy.)
i watch a lot of weird stuff for 4d. i watched sin city because my teacher is too new in the country to realise that it's technically illegal for some of us to watch it; we watched tim burton's mars attacks. we watched dr. strangelove, and a mexican thing called amor perros. uh, yeah. and some weird experimental stuff by man ray.
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no, my brother borrowed it from the esplanade. maybe we should watch gone with the wind next.
(it appears that i will probably end up majoring in film. this makes me slightly uneasy.)
i watch a lot of weird stuff for 4d. i watched sin city because my teacher is too new in the country to realise that it's technically illegal for some of us to watch it; we watched tim burton's mars attacks. we watched dr. strangelove, and a mexican thing called amor perros. uh, yeah. and some weird experimental stuff by man ray.
# posted by : 8:40 PM
: 8:40 PM