OK, people, this is how you know you've been thinking about your favorite fandoms way too much lately: you dream that you're friends with Jim and Pam (who are...both in college, for some reason), and you're going to see one of the free movies shown by various clubs with them. While you are busy admiring how adorable they are at all times, and perhaps just the tiniest bit annoyed that Jim forgot you were coming with them (although he does, at least, seem legitimately apologetic. That's...something), partway through you have to surreptitiously leave in order to go help Emerson & Ned solve a murder case on campus. (Chuck is nowhere in sight, perhaps proving how much she ticked you off in the premiere)
That's a very succinct version of what I can vaguely recall as being an exceedingly long and detailed dream last night of my adventures with the two parties
In unrelated news, we're nearing the end of the Jane Austen half of the course (*sniff*), which means I'm reading Emma, and holy God, words cannot express how much I constantly want to slap her across the face. I think that's how she's supposed to come across, and in all fairness it's less violent loathing than incredulous laughter at how consistently irritating she can be, but seriously. Seriously. If the charming Mr. Knightley weren't around to keep me sane, I'm not sure I could finish this novel. While to date he has not, unfortunately, slapped her across the face, he amuses me.
Also, yesterday in class, our prof started out reminding us that our paper was due Thursday, our midterm was next week, and we had to go see or listen to a recording of a speaker coming to campus as part of the midterm points. "And now that I've depressed your spirits by telling you all that, I have to brighten them by...showing you a scene from the movie!" Normally the film clips are a highlight of class, but I am not on board with this box-office version of Emma. Gwyenth Paltrow, what the hell? You are not Emma, and you look closer to 37 than 21 even way back in 1996. GTFO of my Austen fantasies, please. This is one time I'm in favor of following the picture on the cover. (plus Alan Cummings as Mr. Elton was...twitchy little ferret Alan Cummings is just always unpleasant)
That's a very succinct version of what I can vaguely recall as being an exceedingly long and detailed dream last night of my adventures with the two parties
In unrelated news, we're nearing the end of the Jane Austen half of the course (*sniff*), which means I'm reading Emma, and holy God, words cannot express how much I constantly want to slap her across the face. I think that's how she's supposed to come across, and in all fairness it's less violent loathing than incredulous laughter at how consistently irritating she can be, but seriously. Seriously. If the charming Mr. Knightley weren't around to keep me sane, I'm not sure I could finish this novel. While to date he has not, unfortunately, slapped her across the face, he amuses me.
Also, yesterday in class, our prof started out reminding us that our paper was due Thursday, our midterm was next week, and we had to go see or listen to a recording of a speaker coming to campus as part of the midterm points. "And now that I've depressed your spirits by telling you all that, I have to brighten them by...showing you a scene from the movie!" Normally the film clips are a highlight of class, but I am not on board with this box-office version of Emma. Gwyenth Paltrow, what the hell? You are not Emma, and you look closer to 37 than 21 even way back in 1996. GTFO of my Austen fantasies, please. This is one time I'm in favor of following the picture on the cover. (plus Alan Cummings as Mr. Elton was...twitchy little ferret Alan Cummings is just always unpleasant)
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Emma was the next Austen novel I was going to crack open, assuming I could dig out of the box in our basement where it was supposedly located. Should I not bother?
Wait, what were you doing in his bathroom in the first place?And I agree with your thoughts on Emma too. Emma herself gets really hard to take, and if someone, anyone would just slap her please, it'd really make the novel for me. :D Also, yes, Gwyenth Paltrow? She's just...Not. Emma.
Have you seen the other version of Emma from around the time of the movie? I prefer Jeremy Northam as Knightley, but the Frank Churchill in the other version was better than Ewan (it hurts me to say that, but Ewan's hair was atrocious!) Though the other Frank Churchill was a real asshole. Since you're reading it - was Frank a real asshole in the book as well, or was that an interpretation?