I saw BYU’s production of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale last night. Fabulous production, some great acting. Shakespeare’s tale itself is really odd.

The first act is a heart wrenching tragedy, with violently insane jealous madness from the king. The second act is a light comedy. The ending, a Fantastic Miracle.
But it is about love and has some wonderfully strong female characters.

It’s a Romantic piece done long before the term was coined for the “Romantics” of the 19th Century.

Interesting thought from Gospel Doctrine class today:

Ephesians 6:13&16

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Someone commented: “Faith is your shield — it does you no good if it’s in the wrong place.”

x-posted to the Mormon LJ.

Ah, snow and ice.
Real winter weather happening here. Very pretty.

I have finally declared Music as my minor. I just didn’t think about it before. (Because with Visual Art, if you get in, you are automatically declared.) I only have 5 credits left to do.

I’m really feeling good about the new Editing Minor. Every time I read something, or think about grammar and sentence structure, I realize that I really want to know about it, and understand it. I’ll sign up for the minor, and if it turns out I really don’t like the classes, I’ll just undeclare. But I will definitely have learned something. :)

I went to the Best of Final Cut, BYU’s student film festival, last night with Ben (he’s a cool guy). There were some good ones, some thought provoking ones, some funny ones, and some awfully stupid ones that drove me nuts. :) » Continue Reading

Tomorrow’s Friday! Whee! Thanksgiving break is next week! It feels like class is over already (which really, with my schedule, it is).

Will put this on sidebar, when I get around to it:

I want a good Ravenclaw clique/ring. I can’t find one. :(

Poetry:
I haven’t been interested in poetry very much before, but I’m willing to try it out.
I desire to read some good modern epic poetry. I’m not in the mood for old ancient stuff. I don’t want to think that much. But I’d still like to read some. :)
Any suggestions?

Random Poetry writing quiz, which brought this on:

find your poetry style
this quiz was made by mamaslyth

If I wrote poetry, that’d probably be what I’d do.

There is an LDS Blog webring! (thanks dp!) So I signed myself up, and have already been added. (thanks Ryan!) ^_^

Hee! Now I’m on a webring/clique adding spree! I’ve been desiring to sign up for a lot of these for a while. I hope they will all add me.

Webring-
Lorelei – german sirens. o.o Had to sign up
Cliques-
Stargazer – for artistic dreamers
faerietail – for fairy tale lovers
Dreamweaver – for dreamers
Brown Eyed Girl – because I’m a brown eyed girl
Waterchild – because I’m the Water Queen, I carry a waterbottle everywhere (this is pre-Vegas, I got it from my mother, Vegas solidified my addiction)

I just bought this book:
The Lady & the Lion, illustrated by Laurel Long

Impulse buy, paid $13. It is POSITIVELY GORGEOUS! ^____^ That Amazon scan does not do it justice.

Her backgrounds are Persian Minitures done in oil, with Russian influences, and her faces are Burn-Jones influenced. Lush detail, very very beautiful. I love it. ^__^

The story is based on The Singing Springing Lark, which I read a few weeks ago here. I have a definite affinity to Beauty and the Beast/Animal Bridegroom stories. I’ve read at least 20 versions and they are all very interrelated. Cool stuff.

David of A Soft Answer has linked to me on his list of Mormon Blogs. ^_^ (How do you do this trackback thing? I don’t know.)

We really should do a LDS Blog webring. I’d do it if I could find the time. (so many projects)

Gaman by S. Nees: an interesting and touching article about Japanese culture by a Japanese woman raised in America.

www.alllooksame.com – take a quiz to see if you can tell Japanese people from Chinese or from Korean, etc. I failed miserabley. :( I’d love to be able to. Are there any regional differences people could point out?
It took me a while, but I was eventually able to tell “American” Native American from Mexican while I served on an Indian Reservation in AZ, and I occasionally see someone and think “They look Russian”. It would be wonderful as an artist to be able to draw the predominate facial characteristics of various ancestries. I love faces. ^_^

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Aimee thinking of closing down the Forum?? NO!!! :(
That Forum was like, my internet home for years! And I haven’t come back to it yet, as I should have. Alright, I’m back now.