"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books"...a tribute to R&J in sonnet

Review: A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter (5 unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable, making a total of 10 syllables per line). In a sonnet, every other line rhymes, and the last two lines are a couplet.

It is also referred to (as per a quiz answer yesterday) as iambic petermeter. But, I am getting off subject. Here you go:

The yearly time hath come, when lovers swoon
And high school students giggle at the sound
Of Romeo dear and his spritely tune--
About his love for women, girls, and hounds.
On and on he goes of love that's stronger
Than a thousand arrows from Cupid's bow.
Girls' looks do baffle this heart-led monger
Who seems to eas'ly fall before he knows
A lick about the girl he sees so bright
That stars and moons and suns would scarcely see
Her face for fear of paling in her sight.
Alas!--it seems wise to from this rogue flee.
Yes, Romeo, I'll admit oft looks daft--
The constant victim of a blind bow-boy's butt shaft!

Facebook, the Revolution

Well, it's a good thing I took the day off from work today so that I could adequately address the mania that is Facebook. I have received about a million friend requests and confirmations--from people I haven't seen in years! It is crazy. I have accepted the concept of social networking, and watched a very helpful instructional tool on the internet. You can find it at: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc

Before you get all huffy and like, "wow, it sure would be nice to take a day off just to work on my Facebook account" you should know that I have also been cleaning up 2-year-old vomit all morning (the vomiter is 2-yrs-old, not the actual vomit; that would make me a really terrible housekeeper and I am only moderately terrible). Trust me, I would much rather be cleaning up the verbal vomit spewed forth by adolescents that is my usual day job. 

The expansion of the realm of literacy that has reached out across the world wide web has, indeed, changed the way we think about reading. Sometimes I forget this, but not for too long, as I often receive final draft essays with any combination of the following: "b/c"; "caus"; "OMG"; "BTW"; and "j/k" (really? yes). Maybe being a part of Facebook will help me to become more in tune with current trends in literacy and word de-coding. 

Facebook Freaks Me Out

A friend of mine recently sent me an invitation to join Facebook, so I signed up because I wanted to look at her pictures. You fill in your info, and all of a sudden--boom! It pops up with a list of people who I know suggesting that I may be interested in requesting their friendship (what a fascinating concept, when I was a kid we rarely formally requested people's friendship, we just made fun of them until they thought we were cool). We are talking like 100 people! That I know! How does Facebook know that I know these people?--they are from all walks of my life: high school, college, post-college. It completely freaked me out. It's like this weird voyeuristic universe where people can find out about other people's lives without actually having to talk to them. It makes me think about when you get your yearbook at the end of the school year, and you spend hours looking at every picture, trying desperately to identify flaws in people. 

I'm just not sure I'm ready for Facebook.

It's Twilight in Oak Harbor (SPOILER ALERT)

As the sun approaches the horizon of the new Twilight movie, let's take a moment to reflect on the series that has been giving nerdy teenage girls everywhere a new sense of hope. Now, I have not read Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final installment, but I have it in my possession and plan to start as soon as things wrap up with Jane Eyre. I read these books last Spring, so I am having to brush up a bit--I got totally sidetracked on Stephanie Meyer's website where she talks about her journey to Twilight. She is so normal-seeming, I kind of wanted her to be a bit more eccentric.

In the beginning we have Bella--an average high school girl who moves from Arizona to Forks, WA, to live with her dad. Now, if you have ever been to the Olympic Peninsula, you will know that this is quite a drastic move. Forks is a tiny town south of Port Townsend and isolated from the rest of the world. She makes friends easily, but is intrigued by a group of "siblings"--apparently foster children--who keep to themselves but are all excrutiatingly beautiful. These are the Cullens--a vampire family living in Forks--the rain forest creating the perfect abode for vampires who need to stay away from direct sunlight. Duh-duh-duh...

Edward finds he has an overwhelming attraction to Bella and has to distance himself from her for fear of hurting or killing things. Blah, blah, blah, they get together, fall in love, fight with werewolves and other vampires, and begin the journey to infinity together. Now, there is some serious sexual tension between our two mortally-crossed lovers because though they long for each other (drawing in every teenage girl in America) and Meyer does not spare the details of this longing--descriptions of it are in fact, just that--long, the clincher is that they can't have sex because he would kill her. How's that for adolescent birth control, huh? Yes ladies, he is so powerful that he would actually rip her apart.

I think I will stop there for now, and let you think about that for a while. Be careful this weekend, it's supposed to be overcast...

Part 2--the end

Don't forget the read the Pros and Cons at the bottom-- I think it might be my favorite part!

I love this--click to make it bigger

FW: How are you like Jane?

You know when you get those email forwards that ask you to fill in the answers to a bunch of really unoriginal questions and then forward it on to all of your friends? Well, I have gotten a lot of those lately and have decided to make one of my own that relates to Jane Eyre. Feel free to copy and paste it into an email and send it to all of your friends.

1. Which do you prefer, grey smocks or black? (If you have a hard time deciding between the two, you may be like Jane)

2. Do you believe in ghosts, spooks, haunts, or other apparitions? (If you do, you may be like Jane)

3. What is the largest age-span between you and someone your heart truly desired? (If it is more than 15 years, you may be like Jane)

4. Do you feel obligated to consistently mention the fact that you are plain or unhandsome, and that one would have little reason to take note of you based on your physicality? (If so, you could be like Jane or Mr. Rochester!)

5. Do you want love and independence--to a fault? (If so, you guessed it)

Keep checking your email, you never know when something good like this will pop in!