Papers!
(4:07 P.M. – 4:29 P.M. US Central Time/Saturday/Downtown library)
[imood mood at the time of entry: anxious]
Well, I don’t have much time to write this and I have pretty much forgotten everything that I have been wanting to write here over the past week or so. Darn switch over! Grrrr!! But I understand, so no big.
It’s nice and cold here in Houston and I hate that I need gloves. This is Texas for goodness sakes! We shouldn’t need gloves!!! Nor scarves or thick coats or any other yucky cold weather type clothing. Where’s our eternal Summer at??? I guess that we are having a bit of a nip and then it will go back to be nice and hot and sunny the way I like it.
School’s OK. I got my Science paper finished even though I had to skip school Thursday (December 11, 2003) in order to type it up at the library and it was due that day. It took me all freaking day to do it! I had about three pages done when I started on the rest of it at like 10 something Thursday morning. I had to push to get to school before my teacher left. School had been over for about ten minutes when I finally got there.
My English teacher, Mrs. Rose was seating primly at the table in The Office smiling at me and then proceed to let me (and everyone else in The Office) know several times that her paper was due Monday (December 15, 2003). As if I didn’t know nor heard her the first time. Sheesh! All these danged papers! So I am here trying to write on it. I have to write a paper on how Lennie relates to the title Of Mice and Men when I don’t even fully understand it myself. 5 pages of bullcrap coming up! I am sort of starting to understand it in my own way since I am being forced to examine the book closer.
I saw the movie in 7th grade on my second try around. (Yes, I had a second go with 7th grade since I was a wild girl trouble maker who skipped more than half the year the first time around and talked back to her teachers and made a couple of them cry. I must say that I was mucho, mucho popular with the student population though. *lol*) Well, I couldn’t stomach it that time and I am not looking forward to the end of the book this time because I can see myself in George’s place. Todd, my brother, tends to get into trouble too. I would hate to have to shoot my own brother in the back of the head.
In the crush area of my life things are wierd. I have this strange situation with Jason. I don’t quite know what to make of it. It’s like Does he like me? Do I like him? yadda yadda yadda. Only time will tell I suppose. Mom thinks it’s really out there that I could possibly like my younger brother’s friend. Hey! He’s 17. I’m 18. I don’t mind dating a younger man. As long as we click then everything’s OK.
I just want to go home and get out these hot clothes and go to sleep even though I have to write that paper for English and the History one too. The one which explains how the food I plan to serve up to Mr Lee (my History teacher) relates to history. I plan to make nachos as my third thing. Ole!
Danielle
I finally have time to just sit and read diaries. My life is truly that pathetic. I’m feeling you with that paper thing. I just did a 16 page dealy for my bio class. Bullshit my way through that one. I’m having to do 3 pages of opinion for my psych class every time there is class. That’s a little frustrating.
Anyhow, in highschool (which is a really foggy memory) I was a steinbeck fan. Didn’t have to do any papers on it (I had a new agey english teacher). But from what I remember of your book and from subsequent discussions is that Lennie relates to the title in the fact he’s oblivious to all the harm that could come to him through humans natural tendancy to be predatory. Lennie, despite his own strength, is weak like the mice in the story.