Monday, December 25, 2006
Christmas!!!
Well, Tenth's Christmas Eve is over, and it was so fun. I was in the choir, as you most likely know, and my favorite piece to sing was "Masters in this Hall" which has such a lively tune that it made me smile. Second in my favorites came "Comfort, Comfort," and then "for Unto us a child is Born". Oh, and then "Ding, Dong, Merrily on High!". Oh, they were all fun to sing, and despite being SO hot in the choir-loft. And I think I most likely over-sang on the hymns. But who cares....
Friday, December 22, 2006
"Time! Time!"
However! I lost my "bet" that Sarah Em and I would finish editing The List of Names by Christmas. Given that we are 24 letters into a 71 letter editing process I have rather given up home... Oh, well! It's not like I want to be done with The List of Names, but I desperately want to move on to writing The Room of Darkness (the sequel). Oh well...
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Harry Potter Title!!!!!!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I shall ask yet again, what do you think? I think it is a bit corny to have the word deathly in the title but I suppose that it will grow on me, and after all it isn't really what I think that matters. And as J.K. Rowling knows what is going to happen I am sure that it seems like the best title to her.....
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Eragon!
And they did some things really, really well. The Sephira was really good (so cute when she was born, and then really impressive grown.) Brom was exquisitely well done by Jeremy Irons and was sarcastic and jumpy and all that he was supposed to be. Ed Speelers played Eragon very well, making him strong headed and slightly arrogant when it comes to his skills. I don't know HOW they found someone to play Roren who looked so much like Eragon. The Shade, Durza was satisfyingly creepy and mad looking and i really liked how they showed how powerful he was. Because in the final battle he actually made a dragon-sized creature of Dark magic to ride and fight Eragon and Sephira. My favorite character, Murtag(sp?) was also well done.
The only problem that I really found was that sometimes the way the people said things didn't really match the era that the movie is set in. But all in all I really liked it and it is the first move I have seen in a long time that Daddy said the he really liked.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Break!...... and things.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
I Don't like coming up with titles... my blogs always ramble anyway
And speaking of movies, Eragon is coming out on Friday. It is rather convenient as I will have finished an Exam on Thursday. A movie I want to see always seem to be coming out just as I finish my first semester at Westminster. Narnia came out the day after my last exam last year... How odd... I sort of think its cool.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Argggggggg.... School
And yet, I think it is important to be able to stop at 10:00 and answer the phone when my best friend calls, and to be able to laugh and giggle with her about the most random things. About how we really do need to finish editing W.O.M. (Short for Worker of Magic, which was a sort of working title for our novel The List of Names) and that we really do need to start T.R.O.D. (Short for The Room of Darkness (Which, yes, is just as ominous as it sounds)). And guess what, I think I feel the better for having laughed at the antics of the Blancon(is that how you spell their name?) boys and at the ridiculous letters Sarah and I wrote to each other, and the Diary entries that we sometimes keep merely for the purpose of going back and laughing at ourselves. I realize that it is good to have a friend like her even if there are bumpy moments when we don't agree...
Sunday, December 10, 2006
"Children's Book"
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Melted marshmallows...
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
New thing....
Thursday, November 30, 2006
A suggestion
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
On editing
Sarah Em and I have now been editing The List of Names for quite some time. I just finished the first editing of the 20th letter (my tenth). Awhile ago I changed Sarah for us to get the first editing of The List of Names done by Christmas. If we work really hard we should be able to do it, but we still have 52 letters to do. However, the farther we get into the story the faster it should go since we will have less we have to change (since we had more of an idea as to what we were doing) that is until Sarah's second to last letter(i think) where two people die who we later decided had to live...
I shall be sure to keep you posted.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Lincoln Drive
Willows weep the tears of the world,
Along a winding avenue of fire.
Diamonds sparkle on the river,
Passing glades glow with golden light.
Huge gray-stone arches span the drive,
A tree with leaves like chocolate.
Can we make time for nature?
Can we make time for God?
Glowing trees and fiery reflections
Water rushing form the hillside,
Trees like burning brands,
Bushes green, but touched with crimson,
Stone arches skip across the river.
A gushing river, a crashing waterfall.
Can we make time for nature?
Can we make time for God?
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Grant, Send, and Aid
Grant me passion,
Grant me suffering,
Grant me joy
And grant me pain.
Send me forth,
Send me to you,
Send me searching,
And send me help.
Aid me to know,
Aid me to laugh,
Aid me to cry,
And aid me to find you.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Opera!
I went to see the Last Dress Rehearsal of La Boheme (the first 'e' is supposed to have a little thingummy above it.) It was quiet good despite several drawbacks. One was that Sarah Em and I were sitting directly in front of a very badly behaved set of school children, but we were sitting only about five rows from the stage so it sort of equaled out.
The other major problem was the Sarah Em and I had a tendency to laugh (mostly silently) through all the love scenes. Indeed, if it had been a real performance I think that Sarah Em and I would have (at Dorothy Sayers puts it) "disgraced ourselves very badly." The problem that Sarah and I were having was that though the lines sounded great in Italian the English translations were phrased in such a way that it sounded very much like something one of our worst characters would say. It really didn't help that the singer looked quite a lot like Sylvester as well. Now, Sylvester Chesterton is not a good person to the connected to or with. He writes a good amount of what Sarah Em calls "drivel". Since the Opera was slightly better than what Sylvester writes we decided to give it the title "Passionate drivel."So, overall it was very good. Despite having to yell during all the breaks because every one else was....
Monday, October 16, 2006
Wildlife... and the not so lively wild
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Ramblings
Well, I am back. I wasn't really gone, just really busy. I learned this weekend that I share my Birthday with Camille Saint-Saens (a Composer) and John Lennon (Beatles (is that spelled right?)), as well as with three people at Tenth. it was very odd.
Did you know that music can be inductive to creativity? While at a concert I wrote five pages of my story in about two hours.
On the way to the said concert we saw a football teem, all between 9-12 (about) standing in the downpour. It was so sad...
And now, I have rambled for a bit and I am going now, this is the end, I'm leaving, Goodbye...So sorry, I got pulled into a quote...
Thursday, October 5, 2006
And I hope that it will make you laugh as well. Tenth's Choir Directer sometimes writes poetry other than Hymns. He wrote one for Christmas, which I will undoubtedly post nearer to that time. But now he has graced us with yet another of his poems.
Written by Paul Jones to honor Bruce McDowell and Phil Ryken on reaching their 50th and 40th birthdays.
A rumor's been heard in our halls
And through Tenth's innermost walls-
It seems that among us,
With no lack of ruckus,
"Birthdays 'r Us"-hit the malls!
Forty years old now is Phil.
He's officially "over the hill."
But few have writ' more
Than he in two score
With so much panache and great skill.
With six parishes under his care
And pastoral needs everywhere
'Twixt time on his knees
He's still able to squeeze, in
Some board games and Cardinals' fare.
At fifty is our good friend Bruce,
He's older than Bullwinkle Moose.
With five decades done
He's still on the run
And often seen bounding up Spruce.
Among his most obvious features
A moustache that may hide small creatures,
But everyone knows
That wherever Bruce goes
He's loved by both converts and preachers.
The two men oft' travel the earth
From pulpit to living room hearth
Turkey, Columbia,The cape of South Africa,
Of teaching and missions, no dearth.
The "Birthday song" seems a bit trite,
(The short version's also not right);
This requires a toast
In which we can boast
Of the grace God bestows 'midst the fight.
Therefore, today from Tenth's tribe,
To God, our due thanks we ascribe,
For brothers now older,
Whose service is bolder,
And so "to their health," we imbibe!
Semper reformanda!