Apr. 25th, 2007
Another poem for National Poetry Month
Apr. 25th, 2007 01:47 pmI really dislike Plath, but this is the one poem of hers I actually like.
"Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
"Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
So, that sucks
Apr. 25th, 2007 09:35 pmOkay, we had to give a group presentation in Health Monday. There were four of us, and the "leader" had us meet up and was like, "Okay, each of us take two things we have to discuss in the presentation, make up two/three slides, and send it to me, and I'll put it together."
Sounds easy enough, right?
...So when we stood up to give the presentation and she got to my slides, and I realized she had DELETED about 1/3 of my freakin' information. And didn't just, y'know, copy and paste my information either, but instead typed it up her way so there were a bunch of errors, where it was something like:
"Music therapy is used at hospitals & psychiatric facilities. They use muisc therapy to calm people down."
ARGH. You do not use replace 'and' with '&' in a goddamn presentation! And I spell-checked before sending all of my information to you! Why did you not copy and paste my information? I had everything I needed to present on those slides, damn it, and so instead I come across as an idiot who wasn't prepared because I was so thrown for a loop that I started stammering and tripping over my words.
And so now I look to see what my grade is for the presentation. An 80. I hadn't gotten anything lower than a 85 in that class, damn it! It was my one class I was worried about too, everything else I'm pretty sure I'll get an A in. DOUBLE ARGH.
So much for getting straight As for the first time since second grade.
*growls*
Sounds easy enough, right?
...So when we stood up to give the presentation and she got to my slides, and I realized she had DELETED about 1/3 of my freakin' information. And didn't just, y'know, copy and paste my information either, but instead typed it up her way so there were a bunch of errors, where it was something like:
"Music therapy is used at hospitals & psychiatric facilities. They use muisc therapy to calm people down."
ARGH. You do not use replace 'and' with '&' in a goddamn presentation! And I spell-checked before sending all of my information to you! Why did you not copy and paste my information? I had everything I needed to present on those slides, damn it, and so instead I come across as an idiot who wasn't prepared because I was so thrown for a loop that I started stammering and tripping over my words.
And so now I look to see what my grade is for the presentation. An 80. I hadn't gotten anything lower than a 85 in that class, damn it! It was my one class I was worried about too, everything else I'm pretty sure I'll get an A in. DOUBLE ARGH.
So much for getting straight As for the first time since second grade.
*growls*