stressssssssed

I am sooooooooooo stressed out and I can not take it anymore. Its absolutely dreadful. I am so tired and have only read about 100 pages of my book. >.< that is a lot less than normal. I can't wait for my week to end and it be Friday. When I am stressed I think of Russel. :) he is always so happy and care free. I always think of his first line in the movie. "good afternoon . My name is Russel." I can't help but smile.

"God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next."

Currently

Last Week: 427 pages
This week: 238 pages
Total for semester: 2762 pages

Sentences for last week:
1. It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.” -Crescendo
2. “Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.” -Crescendo
3. “You're mine, Angel,"-Crescendo

Sentences for this week:
2. “I love you.” His voice was straightforward, affectionate. “You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I’m yours, if you’ll have me.” -Silence
1. “How did you get in?"
"I move in mysterious ways."
"God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.” -Silence
3. “I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.” -Silence

I love the first quote from last week because I found it abosolutley hilarious, and I laughed for a good amount of time. I picked the first quote from this week because it is beautiful and I loved it. :)

Time for the Dawn to Break....

Well I finished reading what I had left of Silence to read. It was a spectacular book with a lot of twists and turns. I would recommend the Hush, Hush series to anyone. The book I'm reading now is kind of a forced thing. November 18th is the day that Breaking Dawn comes into theaters, and I have to read the 754 page by then. I have read it in a shorter time, but that was years ago, and I honestly don't remember too much. I started reading it last night. Now that I have started reading it, I have to finish it. That's the way I have always been. Once I start a book I have to finish it. My mom taught me that. :)

A Silence...

For the past two weeks or so I have been reading two of the Hush, Hush books. I had to reread Crescendo because I couldn't remember a darn thing that happened. I read that Nora finds out that Hank Millar, the leader of the Black Hand, is her biological father. This was all a crazy mess. Hank is a Nephillium (product of an angel and a human), and he had Nora's "father" killed. Harrison Grey was a decoy. Hank asked him to marry the woman that he fell in love with, and protect the girl she was pregnate with. She had to be protected from a fallen angel named Rixon. Rixon just happened to Patch's best friend, and Rixon had been after Nora for years. Finally in the end Rixon was supposed to hide Nora when really he was going to kill her. Patch figured that out, and ended him. Because Rixon is a fallen angel, and can not die, Patch sends him to hell. Patch was always a nickname. Nora never knew Patch's real name, until he told her. His real name is Jev. This is where Silence begins. Nora wakes up in a cemetary completely and utterly clueless. She has no memory of anything. It turns out when Nora finally returns home to her mother she had been gone all summer long, and she has no recollection of the past five months. Coincidentally, that means she doesn't remember Hank, she doesn't remember what he has done, who he is, and she doesn't remember being madly in love with Patch. So during this book Nora is on a quest to remember everything she has forgotten, and she does. But first she meets a beautiful guy named, Jev. She couldn't figure out how she knew him. She felt a deeper connection to him, but no one in her life recognized the name. Finally, Nora remembers everything after spending time with Jev/Patch. Hank during all of this was trying to get close to Nora to tell her something. So to do that he started to date Mrs. Grey, again. Eventually he gets Nora, and explains what has happened and why he had to give her up. Also, that he wants her to take over his Nephilium army when he dies. Nora of course hates the idea, but he uses Mrs. Grey to get to Nora. She has to promise him or he will kill both Nora and her mom. This is where I have left off, but I have about 30 pages left and I hope to finish it tonight. I will let you know about the ending... :) have a great week.

Close Reading Bingo

1. "He uses figurative language to describe a “steeper escalator of daylight". Weakness number 5. -http://contemplationsxjones.blogspot.com/
2. This person does not use any intext citations, and weakness 1. -http://bradey.blogspot.com/2011/10/practice-diction-analysis.html
3. "“They were the free-standing kind: a pair of integral sins swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight.”" Weakness 2. -http://thelostmessageofwords.blogspot.com/
4. "Baker draws a picture in your mind with his descriptions, "escalator of daylight" and "towering volumes."" Weakness 3. http://almostfacebook.blogspot.com/




The highly descriptive and scholarly diction, the almost philosophical and appreciative tone inserted into Nicholson Baker's connotation, and the harmonious flow ringing throughout the first page of his novel, instill dreamy, practically romantic admiration for the mezzanine Baker speaks of, as this first page is read. Define Mezzanine: [mez-uh-neen, mez-uh-neen] the lowest balcony or forward part of such a balcony in a theater, or in this case, an office building (perhaps, I have not read this book). Baker elaborates on the mezzanine, the centerpiece of his novel, with a subtle passion, as he begins his journey to his office. He observes a "needly area of shine . . . [fall] against their brushed-steel side-panels" and the "long gloss highlights" waver on the black rubber handrails-- and he is amazed.  He adores these simple flecks of beauty that he comes across in his office building (?) and he watches them with fanciful amusement, absorbing each simple elegance with the a happy heart.-http://inside-out-lily.blogspot.com/

Day Made. :)

This is how my week has been going. I am so tired, and I have had a long week. And I am really happy that the week is almost over. My classes have been stressing me out really bad, and I have basically just been getting by with sleep and working. 

Dicition Observation

Nicholson Baker's dull, clear, and low diction creates a common and dull tone. His words are very dull and almost common, "At almost one o'clock I entered the lobby of the building where I worked...". The most exotic thing mentioned in the excerpt something about carrying a Penguin paperback, "...Carrying a black Peguin paperback and a small white CVS bag...". He also mostly describes the how the elevator is working on that day, and how it works differently on other days. The passage's low and common diction make the excerpt actually kind of boring, and not extraordinary.