onomatoblog

I suppose a few months is rather a long pause, in this thing? And to be honest, I am never entirely sure what I ought to write. I have a protected-entries ElJay where personal things go, so this sort of becomes a place to give brief reports on general progress, and rate movies. Which I shall. Almost spoiler free!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
Many of my friends loved this movie, some hated it. Personally, I feel torn. On the one hand, it is the best in the movie series, and it does an even better job than the books at communicating the terrible angst of being fourteen and at odds with both love and friendship. On the other, it handles the book canon extraordinarily bad at times, in the portrayal of female characters most prominently. It missed points from the books, and exaggerated others, for most irrelevant, ones for no good reason. Newell is excellent at communicating English-ness (without forced tea sessions, this time) but perhaps the shortening down should have been in the script-writing, not in the cutting room. The whole film has a rushed feel, and no scene is longer than a few minutes. And lets give a big WTF for the other schools’ entrance. But there were pretty boys aplenty – always something.

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Now, on a more personal note, I am doing rather good. Today is my name’s day, I shall be twenty-two in less than a week, and Lucas is arriving the 20th, to celebrate Christmas with me and my family (he’ll be off to London in January, for his internship.) I am rejoicing and holiday baking in a jumbled mess. I do love December.

On an academic note, I turned in the first draft to my D-paper (equiv. of Master’s Thesis) this last Monday, and will meet with my adviser again next week. I also start two new lecture classes that week, Philosophy of the Emotions and Feminist Philosophy, the latter I think I’ll have no problems with. Aside from the fact that I am terrified about the meeting with my adviser, it’s all good. I promise I’ll keep everyone posted about the MT, alright?