Mrs. GH's 2nd Period AP Lit Class

Deandre Lefonze is here and at this point nearly a month old. He's pretty cute, looks just like his sister, but with a hint of "old man" about him. He's been a pretty mellow kid until this week when all he seems to do is cry and pass gas--nice, huh? He was having a hard time gaining weight, but that seems to have passed as well. I'm fairly tired getting up twice a night, but am dealing with it better during the day. I've heard that Mr. Wargo is teaching you now--lucky kids! He'll bootcamp you into the AP exam...

I hope all is well and that you are cruising well into spring break. I'll get in touch with Mr. Wargo to see when we can come visit (I'll wait until after the AP exam so as not to steal valuable discussion time) but hopefully early May? I'll also be in the building after school tomorrow (Tuesday March 21)in case anyone is reading the blog and wants to come by the art room for a visit.

Thinking of you all,
Mrs. GH and Charlie

by Elliott Smith

I’m in love with the world,
Through the eyes of a girl,
Who’s still around the morning after.

We broke up a month ago,
When I grew up, I didn’t know
It’d be around the morning after.

It’s always been wait and see,
A happy day didn’t pay
Feel like shit the morning after.

But now I feel changed around,
And instead falling down,
I’m standing up the morning after.

Situations get fucked up
Turned around sooner or later

I could be another fool,
Or an exception top the rule
You tell me the morning after.

Crooked spin can’t come to rest
I’m damaged bad at best
She’ll decide what she wants
I’ll probably be the last to know
No one says until it shows
See how it is they want you or they don’t

I’m in love with the world,
Through the eyes of a girl,
Who’s still around the morning after.


Elliott Smith's "Say Yes" tells a story very similar to that of the narrator of "The Sun Also Rises," Jake. Jake, prior to the relay of his story, fought in the first World War, when he fell in love with a woman, Brett. The two have an apparent attraction and arguable love throughout the entire book--however, Brett feels she cannot be with Jake due to his impotency. Despite this, they still live around each other, and have frequent visitations.

The character in Elliott's song is in love with a girl, and after having made love to her one evening, she wants to break things off. He still loves her, unfortunately, and she is still around him. This is the same situation for Jake, in many ways.

Jake's love for Brett is apparent throughout the story, but Brett's relations with various other men (mostly friends and acquaintances of Jake's) don't allow them to act upon the torrid passion that emanates between the two.

proceed to explain the ties between other characters. cut and add as you need to, that's just a basis.

...since someone posted.

So I'm posting this, to ask someone besides me to resurrect this blog.

I'll be posting something phenomenal in the near future. Anticipate it, but until then, someone post something even more phenomenal.

Egocentric?

A smidgeon.

Love to you all,
Alexander "X" Catchings I

...since someone posted.

So I'm posting this, to ask someone besides me to resurrect this blog.

I'll be posting something phenomenal in the near future. Anticipate it, but until then, someone post something even more phenomenal.

Egocentric?

A smidgeon.

Love to you all,
Alexander "X" Catchings I

OK guys, isn't being a student in the age of technology cool? I can sit here on the couch watching Nemo with my three year old and still send you homework. I love this stuff!
Conrad article

Your Brunette Ocean
X

Tickling hands
1
of aweing embracement
2
ruffle through manila thoughts.
3


I only envisioned us
4
doing those meager things
5
people let wiggle by
6
in this time of rushed recreation.
7


Sharing sips of frosted lemonade
8
on the warmest noon the sun can spare
9
while Canon in D Major lulls our love
10
to a peaceful standstill.
11


All we need to do is savor each other--
12
warm and damp,
13
fleshy and pressing.
14


Hair astray,
15
it brings out the toffee in your eyes.
16
Through an adoring gaze, I take my fill like a child.
17
Your hair's stirring cinnamon swirls
18
and glinting gold-kissed waves
19
paint my world of inspiration--
20
dictates my words for you.
21


Piano notes and guitar plucks
22
can't vibrate notes enough to challenge the music
23
we create in our silence.
24


Your presence
25
is my present.
26


You're nestled against my chest
27
on a grassy bed that's ours for the rolling.
28
Fitted airily inside my arm,
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I press my hand against your lovely fluttering torso
30
while that lovely strawberry eloquence drifts
31
from the nape of your neck
32
challenging oxygen
33
and caressing my senses.
34


Sententious sailing
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is all we do as I run my fingers through your strands of brunette ocean.
36


We're painting honey, we're painting
37


and this is a masterpiece.
38

That's touching Rebecca... but that's not the issue at hand in this post.

The issue at hand is...

bread

Research on bread indicates that:

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!

6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

In light of these frightening statistics, it has been proposed that the following bread restrictions be made:

1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.

This article was written by B.S. Wheatberry in a desert after consuming mass quantities of yeast bread then realizing his canteen was empty. (seriously =P )

-X-

APers,

I made a big mistake! If you plan to see "The Importance of Being Earnest" this weekend, it ends on Saturday night NOT Sunday. I misread the email and it started on Thursday and goes through Saturday. The matinee is 2 PM Saturday, NOT Sunday. If you guys planned to go Sunday, know that it's not an option. If you know of other students who planned to go on Sunday, please let them know of the change.

I feel bad.

Mrs. GH

There hasn't been a post for a while so i figured i would let you in on some more music that will get you into the music that X and I listen too instead of the mtv, vhi, radio garbage that consists of slow jams and gangsta rap, or your standard, everything sounds the same pop punk. And if you are thinking now "Ok they listen to things like Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, or Simple Plan. They Rock!!!" Your dead wrong...so here it goes.

1. When They Really Get To Know You, They Will Run- Pedro The Lion
2. First Day of My Life- Bright Eyes
3. Televators- The Mars Volta
4. Njosnavelin (Nothing Song)- Sigur Ros
5. Let Go- Frou Frou
6. The Only Living Boy In New York- Simon and Garfunkel (Old School)
7. Like Eating Glass- Bloc Party
8. The Recluse- Cursive
9. If I Live Or If I Die- John Vanderslice
10. Club Foot- Kasabian
11. Penelope- Of Montreal
12. Penelope- Pinback (Weird Huh)
13. Light and Day- The Polyphonic Spree
14. Hold Me Now- The Polyphonic Spree
15. July, July!- The Decemberists

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