AP tests. Calculus BC was rough, Computer Science A had a fun free-response section, English Literature was fine (and required almost no knowledge of the subject). Environmental Science is tomorrow, Latin: Vergil on Friday.
I went to the library Friday before last -- the first time in months -- and since then I've been finishing a book every few days. It's good to read again, though I thought the last installment of Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy failed to evoke as deep a sense of wonder as did the first two. Hominid speculations are okay as tangents, but not as premises; and alternate-reality conjectures were long ago worn thin with overuse.
Speaking of alternate realities -- while other classes are gearing down to end the year at a sedate pace, America at War has become bothersomely bullshit-bloated. Ours is, to tastelessly reference pop media, the Terry Schiavo of history classes -- incapacitated, vegitative and kept living only by the most artifical means.
I picked up Max Payne for $2 yesterday and have been playing it extensively and exclusively. My favorite line so far: "The cops arrived, sirens screaming in the off-key harmony of a manic-depressive choir." The bullet-time is so amazingly stylish that I keep wanting to re-do each fight over and over.
Taking Back Sunday's most recent album has been the only one in my player for a while now. When I first listened to it, skipping from song to song, looking for a good hook, I thought I'd made a mistake in buying the CD. A few days later, when I actually listened to all the songs, I found they were almost all excellent.
Oh, and life? Well, that can probably wait until the next update.
posted on Monday, May 09, 2005
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