Plant Something Day/Circus Day
2005-05-19 @ 10:08 p.m.

Happy belated birthday, Vaish. I confess that I did forget the exact date! Terribly sorry, it was just inexcusable. Spent close to $200 on books yesterday at Borders and Kinokuniya. Having an ATM card is very liberating, as I've mentioned before. My spending habits are becoming more screwed up than ever. I feel cheated, because I bought a book at Borders for $10 more than what it costs at Kinokuniya, but picking up Jude The Obscure has somewhat pacified me. Am now reading The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, and it's refreshing. (Is it just me, or have I started saying that about every new book I read?) Anyway, Heart Of Darkness isn't bad really, not what I expected at all. All this just from five pages' worth of reading. Still prefer Hardy though. Thinking of exploring the poetry of Dylan Thomas and Wallace Stevens, if I can find them in a library. I have Anatomy Of Criticism! Pause here for happy grin...

Reading Educating Alex has inspired me to start writing stories of my own. Whatever happened to Humbert Square? I think I'll kickstart it on my LJ. Was texting Eugene about Educating Alex, which is good writing, along the lines of Cunningham. If Hollinghurst can win the Booker Prize for In The Line Of Beauty, Educating Alex at least deserves to be published. Anyway, we had an interesting discussion about the whole thing, while I was busy watching CSI. So I finished my case study late, and I couldn't start on the Frost essay, which I'm trying to finish by tonight. I'm giving myself strictly one hour to do the whole thing, which isn't too ambitious since I won't have to analyse The Wood-Pile, thanks to my A-grade essay last term. Speaking of essays, something's always missing these days in the work I do for Mr Purvis. I got back an essay with not a few ticks, but I still omitted some important points about Mrs Yeobright. Will find out what they are tomorrow, but I still hate essay questions anyway.