Entries tagged with "charles dickens"
I'm just a girl who cain't say no
posted by srah on November 17, 2007 4:14 PM
Tags: charles dickens, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, quantum leap, readers' choice, tv, writers' strike
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...
'Gin toddies - large measures/ No skimpin' if you please'
posted by srah on November 15, 2005 12:27 PM
Tags: charles dickens, fashion, hats
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...
Great Expectations in education
posted by srah on March 30, 2003 3:50 AM
Tags: books, charles dickens, education, high school, jane austen
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...
Literary confusion
posted by srah on March 29, 2003 11:45 AM
Tags: books, charles dickens
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....
