Gearing up for school. I want to buy my books early. I basically know what classes (two) I’m taking but I wish I had the 3:30 class because it would mean there was only 45 minutes rather than nearly two hours between classes.
I finally finished Atonement by Ian McEwan. I enjoyed the read far more than I expected to, this was sort of a snap judgment based on the reception of the movie by people I respect. Good to know that it’s almost always true that the book is better than the movie. I really enjoyed how Briony, though older and wiser, never really lets go of her need to atone. She may be dead by the time it happens but she won’t give up on it even though it would not have made a bit of difference in anybody’s life. The images, especially in the first part of the novel, are beautiful. A languorous life upset.
I think I need to get back into working on phpFan, revamping the scripts for my artwork and writing sub-sites has taught me more, it’s given me a different idea for templating, at the very least. That’s always been my stumbling block, unfortunately. I still need to work on the Gallery of Pain (yeah, the name, wince) members database/submission system.
I haven’t been writing much, the last of any good was a short story/fanfiction. Here is a poem I wrote that sort of calls attention to my annoyance with making glamorous and sophisticated speakers in poetry.
sophisticate
