Currently Playing: “The One” by Kylie Minogue
So lately things have been crazy, which resulted in a complete lack of updates on my part. Not that it particularly matters, but still. Anyways…
I’ve been revisiting all of my interests and paraphernalia thereof that have accumulated over the past year, what with end-of-semester packing going on for everyone, and I found some really cool stuff. I must say, I’ve become a pretty interesting person over the past year. Not that I’m trying to be egotistical or anything. I’m just saying.
First and foremost among my new interests is world mythology. Though I was quite the Greek mythology buff from fifth grade well into twelfth, my interest in it kind of tapered off once I came to college and became a psychology major. Huzzah for the transition back into a literary field! I’ve picked up a few library books regarding mythology, one of the most notable being Thomas D. Worthens’s The Myth of Replacement: Stars, Gods, and Order in the Universe. While I don’t profess to being an expert in the field of comparative mythology (heavens, no), I must say that this book has, so far, been easy to follow with a few exceptions regarding academic allusions to expert mythologists.
Following along the same lines, I picked up a book by Northrop Frye and Jay Macpherson entitled Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture. I am currently enjoying the first section, which addresses biblical mythology, and I look forward to the Classical section, seeing as the biblical section brought to light a lot of stuff that I had never really considered. I really liked the casual banter characteristic of this book, and the establishment of theoretical archetypes is really cool (check out the section on “parody demonic” and “manifest demonic,” especially). If you go to UGA, though, please don’t request either of these books because I’m still only halfway through them.
As for ballet…well, I regretfully haven’t had time to practice at all because I kind of have a boyfriend now. Yeah, it’s sudden. He’s a really sweet guy, but I’ll spare details for now because I’ve basically been telling a lot of my friends about him, and I don’t really feel like giving the same explanation for the umpteenth time. Ump. Hump. Hump-catty. Go see the “powerthirst” video on youtube right now if you haven’t already. Suffice it to say that we have a LOT in common, and he’s cute as hell.
Oh, and if anyone cares to contact me regarding pokemon teams and such, feel free. At the moment, I’m making a (hopefully) balanced team that will inevitably be ignored in metagame due to its heavily UU members. They are:
Ninetales (duh)
Leafeon
Gardevoir
Mismagius
Vespiquen
Blastoise
Movesets to follow if any interest is shown.