A new blog... not mine.....

And now Hannah has a blog. She has ventured into the realm of cyberspace one step more. Please feel free to click on the new link and say "hi" to her and her new blog. We are so proud of them. As Fred or George Weasley put it we "might seriously consider admitting that we are related", or something like that.

Monstrosities

I know two posts in a day is a bit much. But I have pictures of what they are putting in the stairs.

One: The first half in the stairs:
The support is the large, ugly, metal thing that has rust on it. Running horizontally to the bottom of the picture.

Two: The second half in the stairs:

It is the slightly smaller, ugly, metal thing that has rust on it. This piece too is running horizontally to the bottom of the picture.

Three:

What appears to be the next, slightly smaller monstrosity. Not yet inserted into the stairs.

Four:

A nice close up of Fairmont Park's wonderful welding job

Wuthering Heights...

Did you know that the word "Wuthering" is not in Word's Dictionary. It means "wind-blown" or "windy", but Word doesn't have it.
Oh, well, I didn't log in to tell you of the faults of Microsoft (although there are many).
Have any of you read Wuthering Heights? I would highly recommend it if you have. I have finished it, but unlike Jane Eyre, which I also haven't finished, I and connected to the Characters in Heights.
I don't know. Perhaps it was just my general disinclination towards main characters , but I didn't like the character of Jane at all. Like, I want her to marry Rochester so that Rochester will be happy. But I do like Heathcliff, although I don't think I would be very keen to meet him.
Perhaps the difference for me is how i started reading them. I have to read Wuthering Heights for Writing Class but I only started Jane Eyre because I had read Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair which piqued my interest because I wanted to know if what happened in the Thursday Next book, really happened in Jane Eyre.
Whatever caused the difference I an determined to finish both of them, for I really want to know how Rochester's first wife dies(Eyre) and what happened to Catherine(Heights) that made Heathcliff go sort of all mad and vindictive.

Grandmama...

My dear Grandma is back from a month-long stint in Florida with my Uncle Bob. She is really tired and glad to be back.

A thought...

IT'S SNOWING!

So sorry, that was not the thought. and it is really more a delima than a thought. I have thought of a phrase that I want to use but I already have two blogs (one that I don't use much) and I don't know what I would do with another email address.... If I come of with something I will be sure to post it.

OH, a thought!

Do you like the name of the other blog or should I change it?

A book...

I have just read for the second time what I think is the only book to have made me cry. I remember crying last time i read it as well. What is funny is that I end up crying over a character who we only met at the beginning and isn't really that important.
If you should care to read the said book it is called Gregor and the Marks of Secret. However, I would suggest that you read the three books that come before it first. Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, and Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods. They are all very good and I am eagerly awaiting the fifth and last book (coming on May?) Gregor and the Code of Claw.

Yaaaaaa!

Quite by accident I managed to talk myself out of reading The Master and Margareta and into Wuthering Heights. Miss Fletcher asked me to pick a section from a book of essays and such and I picked the first chapter of Wuthering Heights and she was like "would you prefer to read that rather than the Master and Margareta?" So now it is much more better (as Jack would say) because I have a copy of Wuthering Heights.

Less than Panic

Well, I have moved away from the edge of the edge of panic to just being busy...

• I finished the outline and rough draft only to get an email an hour later telling me that the teacher had moved it to only being due by Monday the 22nd. I sent it to him anyway.
• I have gotten to the 19th chapter of Luke looking for historical references
• I still have no idea where to start with the Historical-Proofs-of-Christ Paper
• I got Bible done yesterday
• I didn't get German done
• I calculated that I need five hours of math a week in order to get a credit of math for tenth grade
• I just finished the writing assignment
• Miss Fletcher says I don't need to get The Master and Margareta this week
• I finished the Antigone Questions today
• I did do a lesson of math today, and will be going over it with Daddy this evening

"Can we panic now?"

Alright, let me explain why I am on the edge of being on the edge of panic. Here is what I have to do:

1. A outline and rough draft of a 2-4 page essay on comparing Esther and Antigone for Literature class. Due Tuesday at noon. I started working on it this morning.
2. I have to go through one of the gospels and write down the historical references for History class. Due the 18th.
3. I have to start work on a paper for History class about historical proof (Bible doesn't count) that Jesus was real, and why it is important that he was indeed a real person. Due on the first of February.
4. Work on Bible Memory every day except Thursday.
5. Do a lesson of German every day except Thursday.
6. Do a lesson of Algebra every day except Thursday.
7. Do Science Monday and Wednesday.
8. Do a writing exercise for my Writing Class about the kitchen.
9. Try and figure out how to get my hands on a Russian novel by the name of The Master and Margareta. And no that is not necessarily how you spell it. But I don't have time to look it up right now.
10. I should do the study questions for Antigone for Literature class.
11. I need to edit a letter for The List of Names
12. I technically should be going to choir this evening but I think that I am going to give it up this semester.
13. I have to do more math...

Does that scare anyone? It sure does me!

Bellaire Update

Well, the Fairmount Park men have been here. They are trying to fix the stairs (which, for those of you who don't know, were coming down).
We learned that the stairs were apparently built away from the sight of the real building. There must have been a misunderstanding because apparently the stairs were too small. So they (the original builders that is) decided to put in a second beam next to the main beam so that they didn't have to rebuild the stairs.
Well, that was all very well 300 years ago but now apparently some of the "summer beams" have slipped off of the second beam and are just floating. And, no, I have no more idea what a "summer beam" is than you do. If any of you have ever heard of them please, please comment and tell me what they are.
So, the huge piece of metal that they were supposed to be putting into the stairs on Thursday is not in and who knows when it will. Or the three of four that will be following it. Did I mention that the "steel rods" that they are using weigh twenty pounds per foot?
I will try and keep you updated on the house...

Winter

Apparently the long term forecast says that winter will really make and appearance this winter. (Wow! that WAS a confusing sentence if I ever heard one. Sorry.) But it says that this year will be as bad as some of the other winters that seemed like they would be mild.
Well, I certainly hope it happened...

Oh, on a completely different note the men from Fairmount(sp?) Park have been floating around and they are coming tomorrow to put a piece of metal in that is supposed to hold the stairs up. The metal weighs twenty pounds per foot, it must be about seven feet long, and these men are going to raise it above their heads and try and insert it into our stairs. Oh, Joy and delight! I am almost glad that I'm not going to be here.

Bellaire Manor

Down the stairs I run,
Past the two small white-walled rooms.
One, two, three,
Past the two high-ceilinged rooms.
Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty,
Past the two large state-rooms now,
Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three,
And into the warm inviting seventh room.
Forty seven, forty-eight, forty-nine.
And now as I sit,
I have to think,
“What do these seven rooms know?”
How long they’ve stood?
Two hundred and ninety two years it’s been
And known a many thing.
It’s last through three wars at home,
And many more abroad.
It’s older than the country in
Which it now does stand.
It has seen things as a colony,
As a nation torn apart, And now at last as a united land.

School

So, here I am... Working on finishing a short story for Writing class tomorrow. It doesn't need to be done by then but as I have something else that does I might as well write the short story in order to avoid writing the thing that needs to be written. Given that it is due tomorrow I suppose I really should get a move on. Perhaps I shall post the short story on one of my blogs. Then I could see what other people think of it.
I just finished reading Oedipus Rex on Monday. It was very odd because, in case you don't know, it is all about a man who have had a prophecy mad about him to his parents ends up killing his father and marrying his mother. He tries to escape the prophecy but of course it doesn't work. How odd.

Sheer Randomness

1. Tenth Church Choir is singing Brahms's Requiem in German
2. Today is Snape's (from Harry Potter) birthday.
3. I didn't have a History class on Thursday (therefore I don't have homework for it) and yet I still feel rather on the edge of panic about school... (I am SO behind on Math...)
4. Is it impossible to convince someone that Homeschooling has it's merits?
5. ..............................
6. How has all the water managed to seep out of Hannah's homemade snow globe?

And I'm back....

... to school that is.
And very happy I am to be so. I had my first day back to Westminster yesterday what is a nice way to get back into the swing of things. Because my History Class wasn't meeting I had an 8:30 Writing one-on-one class and then a 2:00 Literature class. After that Mom and I went to join Hannah, Neal, Jonathan, Breanne, Nathan, and Jesse(sp?) at Neal's house. We played Munchkin and Once Upon a Time until about 9:40 at which time Mom picked up up.
It was a really nice day and a good start to the 2007 school semester.

Ahoy! A New Year!

Jolly frightfully ho! (As Lord Peter Wimsey himself says...)
It's a new year and I didn't really make any resolutions, because they never work for me anyhow. I know that that isn't really any reason to break with tradition but I'm just like that. I do things because it is not the norm.
I am looking forward to going back to Westminster tomorrow, which some of you may see as soon severe type of damaging syndrome but I assure you that it is usual for me. It will be nice to get back into the swing of having a schedule and seeing people and have deadlines...