General update

We finally got our furniture. Yay! Unfortunately, sprained my finger lifting the TV, so is very difficult to type. Also botched my plans to finish my chapter last night, so I'm a little grumpy now.

Classes for today and tomorrow have been cancelled thanks to Katrina. I still have my doctor's appointment today, though, so at least there's still something to do for productivity's sake.

Today is my brother's birthday. He's 20.

ETA: Well, as Colonel Pickering would say, I'm dashed. My dad just called and told my mom to cancel my doctor's appointment: he didn't feel she was up to driving in the winds. So now this weekend that was supposed to be so productive is now down to nada. Harrumph.

Renae is now planning a Tropical Hurricane Party. We have friends who live in a mobile home, so we have a standing invitation for them to come over during any storm if they need to. So now Renae wants to buy a bunch of fruit and make it a day.

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from few and jimmyhk

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I went to the library yesterday and picked up a few books I haven't read from the banned books meme. (I also left the library wondering why in the world they didn't have a single copy of The Grapes of Wrath! Wha???) I started with Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. I'm having trouble getting into it, though. Why? Because of the insanely long sentences! It's as if he had only a short supply of periods and had to use them sparingly in order to be able to finish his book.

Still, I have to admit it's a pretty effective way of setting up the mood of the book. When the characters begin to pick up the narration, as in chapter 1, I could imagine Jessica Tandy speaking as she did in Fried Green Tomatoes, and I understood it much more easily than in the plain narration.

In other news, I'm still really annoyed that all my planned activities for tomorrow were cancelled because of this stupid hurricane. I was all geared up for work and school, and suddenly I have nothing to do. It leaves me feeling very antsy.

Also, today was my brother's birthday, so he made our parents sit down and watch The Two Towers. Phrases uttered in my house today during The March of the Ents:

Run, Forest, Run!
He's turning over a new leaf.
Gotta pack my trunk.
How do you kill a tree? Oh!