The Clash of Poetry and Lord of the Rings

So...yes, it does sound interesting, doesn't it?
This week I wrote my pantoun, which I thought was somehow supposed to be an "obsession" of mine. So, being the overachiever that I am, I took it one step further: three obsessions (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter). Now, they can all be easily related, because that's what Wikipedia is for. So this is what I came up with- and this is the short version: The guy who plays Saruman in LOTR (Christopher Lee) also plays Count Dooku in Star Wars. And the guy who did the music for Star Wars, John Williams, also composed the music for the first Harry Potter movie, setting the stage with the internationally famous Hedwig's Theme. (Click here to listen to Harry Potter if you've been deaf for the last ten years) John Williams also did the equally famous Star Wars theme, as mentioned above, which makes him an overall famous guy. (Click here to listen to Star Wars if you haven't been well educated in late-70s early-80s really-late-90s or early-00s American culture as a child)

And then we come to Lord of the Rings, which has started to pick up once again (what is this, the fiftieth time or something?) So Faramir has come and gone-- well, technically, Frodo has come and gone. And Faramir is, as Wikipedia said, more like the opposite of his brother than the twin of his brother when it comes to the ring-- Faramir is the nerd, Boromir is the jock. And Gondor likes jocks more than nerds right now. So that explains well why Boromir was the prized son to Denathor.

The quote for this week comes with some help from a friend of mine. The quote comes from her favourite movie, Titanic.
Male Passenger: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...
Jack: You want to walk a little faster through that valley there?

-Jenni

Poetry and Reading For This Week

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Poetry this week has been fun. Especialy today's poem from Poem-A-Day because it's about love and science. I thoght it had some really great comparisons.

 My love is as a fever, longing still
 by Christopher Bursk

It didn't take a Harvard Medical School degree
to detect you and I were not lovers destined to wed
but two viruses doing their best to infect each other,
two fevers that'd spread, different symptoms of the same
sickness. Past cure I am, now reason is past care.
Did I really wish to die? The doctor dismissed me
with the professional ease with which one might swat a fly,
as if for the fly's own good. So what
if you loved me more intimately than anyone ever would?
A cancer cell could say that of any body
it refused to let go. Once the heart was infected,
how could it be corrected? So what was I waiting for?
The truth is, the doctor smiled,
the microbe adores the flesh it's dating.

Not to mention the fact that I want to go to a college similar to Harvard..... I guess it wouldn't be as much fun if you didn't know what they were talking about with the science. But since I do, I really like it.

Now...this week's reading....Um, there's not much left to say, other than that of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit.

This week's quote is from Lord of the Rings, Part Two: The Two Towers (the movie)
Sam: What we needs is a few good taters,
Smeagol/Gollum: What's taters, precious, what's taters, eh?
Sam: PO-TA-TOES, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew....

Ah, classic.

-Jenni

Spring Break, Part Two

Part One: Trend Analysis Essay
It's coming along well (like all the other weeks) and I found some data (yay) but it's a chart, not a graph. Which is unfortunate. But I'd like to give CDC a BIG thank you because they gave me some really good information. And then I got my list of the top 50 most popular TV shows- three of which involve teenage mothers (Glee, Teen Mom, and the Secret Life of the American Teenager). 

Part Two: Poetry
I'm really excited for poetry because somehow (and this never fails) spring is always the busiest time of the year for me, academically. So, since poetry comes pretty easily to me, it'll be nice to have a little break. I found this really cool poem on poem-a-day that was about these tiny little details to remember someone by, from memories that you'd had together (the random yellow circles on the hotel carpet where you stayed once.)

Part Three: This Week's Reading
I have offically dropped Scarlett and re-started Lord of the Rings. And even though I'm in with the Hobbits, Gollum has decided to drop in, making a much better conflict. And soon, Faramir is going to enter the picture, which will be lots of fun with the conflict. >:) And then we end this book and go back to Rohan, and then to Gondor (to Minas Tirith, city of kings). And that means that characters return like: Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Eowyn, King Theoden, Eomer, and Legolas! ^^,

Part Four: Quotes :)
So, this week's quote comes from Star Wars (again ^^,), but this time it's Episode II: Attack of the Clones
"Why do I have the feeling you're going to be the death of me?" -Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor)
Hahahaha, so true, so true.

-Jenni ^^,

This Week's Reading and Trend Essay

I think I'll start with trend essay first. It's coming aong very well, and I'm still hoping to find some sort of chart or graph to use. I think I'll try some sort of government agency...they usually have things like that on every topic you could imagine. One of the reasons we have a government, so that kids looking for answers for their trend analysis essays can get them.

Next on the que is this week's reading. I am getting so sick of Scarlett I could scream. No, I don't care anymore, Ms. Ripley. You have failed to keep my attention by being boring and making Scarlett so un-Scarlettish that I have decided to stop reading. The novel will be returned to the library following the exodus of spring break.  That means that Lord of the Rings might be making a return...watch my Facebook for further updates.

And, after those two very short entries, comes our final segment, my personal favourite, this week's quotes.
"So this is how liberty dies... in thunderous applause."-Padme (Star Wars, Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith [bum bum bum])
*sigh* What a pity. She really would have been an interesting asset to the rebels in the later episodes.

-Jenni