4 entries from srah blah blah tagged with 'charles dickens':
I'm just a girl who cain't say no
One really exciting thing about the writers' strike is that I will be freed from my enslavement to the TV. Once they run out of new episodes, I won't have to worry about what to watch and what to tape and what to watch or not watch online. I started to think, at first, that this would be a really exciting time for me, so that instead of this¹: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 8 Shouty Man Shouting Into a Megaphone Shoutily (ABC) The Barney and Marshall Show, Also With Other Characters (CBS) A Very Special "Social...
srah - Saturday, 17 November 2007 - 4:14 PM
Tags: charles dickens, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, quantum leap, readers' choice, tv, writers' strike
'Gin toddies - large measures/ No skimpin' if you please'
Is there a hat that's appropriate for wearing indoors at work? I'm concerned about the amount of heat I'm losing through my head. I'm concerned about the amount of heat I'm losing through all of my extremities, for that matter, as well as the total surface area of my skin. I'm starting to wonder where I should be investing my time, money and effort: into figuring out how to put heavy velvet curtains up on the windows to insulate them (putting the screws directly into the concrete walls?); into shopping for fingerless gloves to type with; into shopping for little...
srah - Tuesday, 15 November 2005 - 12:27 PM
Tags: charles dickens, fashion, hats
Great Expectations in education
Reading Great Expectations for the first time, I am inspired to question the value of my education. I took advanced English classes in one of the best public schools systems in Michigan, but I don't remember ever reading Charles Dickens in school. I don't even recall any excerpts from A Christmas Carol in my textbooks. What is going on here? I read Oliver Twist on my own a few summers ago and found it very clever and funny. I've tried A Tale of Two Cities twice but I've never been able to get into it, which turned me off from...
srah - Sunday, 30 March 2003 - 3:50 AM
Tags: books, charles dickens, education, high school, jane austen
Literary confusion
I am simultaneously reading Contact, The Best of Roald Dahl, and Great Expectations. So far, my favorite parts are when Pip is contacted by space aliens and when Miss Havisham is shipped off to the meat-packing factory....
srah - Saturday, 29 March 2003 - 11:45 AM
Tags: books, charles dickens
