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I finally saw the new Pride and Predjudice, and I have to say that was one of the WORST adaptations I've ever seen. I knew going in that it could never hold a candle to the BBC version, because they had done it to absolute perfection. However, I was hoping for the gentle and thoughtful such as they had done with Sense and Sensibility and Emma. In both of those they were forced to simplify and shorten, but there was a noticable effort by the screen writers and the actors to keep Austen's prose intact. I'll even say that both movies had been well cast. (though I had my doubts of Gwyneth Paltrow's abilities she surprised me) The end result being that Jane Austen's story was the highlight of the movie.
This Pride and Predjudice had NONE of those attributes. The only actor who even tried to make the character more than its surface value was the actor who played Darcy.(however he made Darcy a rather weaker character in my opinion so there is no need to remember his name) The rest of the players quite frankly just sucked. It was like they watched the BBC version and tried unsuccessfully to imitate them. Elizabeth Bennent lost all her intelligence, grace, and wit in the hands of a 3rd rate actress who plays EVERY role the same her performance of Lizzie was the same as the bounty hunter, pirate lover, and soccer player.
The screen write felt no need to keep most of the original prose and interjected explainations EVERYWHERE. What was with Charlotte's scene in the barnyard??? It was like watching Jane Austen for dummies.
To add to this violating of one of the best stories ever written was an over zealous cinematographer who fill up most of the time with pretty but useless shots. And for some reason they thought it best to make the Bennets look truly poor despite the fact that they were just poor in inheritance. The house and family looked absolutely slovenly!
All in all a horrible movie Keira Knightly should be banned from movies for that.

Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!

I am bored by my own blog.

new survey

new survey

1. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR KITCHEN PLATES? a wild variety, I've never bought a set of regular plates though I do have a set of fancy ones....go figure

2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? Hoot by Carl Haissen

3. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? stains from what I'm not sure

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOARD GAME? Life with the Unthank's rules

5. YOUR FAVORITE MAGAZINE? I rarely read magazines, normally what looks the most interesting in the waiting room

6. YOUR FAVORITE SMELL? Men's cologne.

7. WORST SMELL? chicken houses on a hot summer day

8. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? Why? Why? Why?????

9. FAVORITE COLOR? red always

10. LEAST FAVORITE COLOR? don't know ugly ones

11. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? 2 or 3.

12. FUTURE (or first) CHILD'S NAME: Electra

13 WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN LIFE? God and family

14. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? Chocolate

15. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FAST? depends on if I'm paying attention

16. FAVORITE TV SHOW? NCIS though I never get to watch it because for some reason Tuesdays are really busy

17. DO YOU SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL? not since I was 5

18. STORMS - COOL OR SCARY? Both, I love sitting on my porch when its raining

19. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? don't know what it was but we called it the green bomb

20. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON ( LIVING OR DECEASED)? there are very few people I admire before I get to know them, so I can't say one person really jumps at me. But I will say that I can imagine that if I met and got to know Paul from the Bible (that one that wrote 1/2 the New Testament) I would probably like him and get angry at him alot.

21. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? semisweet wine

22. WHAT IS YOUR SIGN & BIRTHDAY? Aquarius January 26, 1979

23. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? yes

24. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB.. WHAT WOULD IT BE? college professor or archeologist

25.IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY HAIR COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? blonde

26. IS THE GLASS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY? I don't know. What's in the glass and do I have to drink it?

27. Favorite Movie? Who can choose just one???? Ok The Spitfire Grill

28. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? Yes

29. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? nothing

30. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? none.........I mean football, Love ya Steve

31. WHAT IS YOUR SINGLE BIGGEST FEAR? Death of a loved one.

32. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? A sweet lady with a lot of patience ( 3 kids AND Kenny)

33. KETCHUP OR MUSTARD? on what?

34. HAMBURGER OR HOTDOG? Hot dog.

35. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SOFT DRINK? vanilla diet coke from Sonic

36. THE BEST PLACE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN? Washington DC

37. WHAT SCREENSAVER IS ON YOUR COMPUTER NOW? none it goes to black

38. PERSON MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? putting this on my blog so probably no one

39. PERSON LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? see above

growing up

I went to a high school musical this weekend. I had wanted to go to 2, but alas one was all that I could make it to. So I went to the one my students were in. I teach at this school every day, but I'm in the part of the school that was not there when I went to school there. So I usually don't spend much time contemplating my past. Last Friday though as I sat watching my students perform on that stage that I knew so well I couldn't help it. I saw the girl that starred in Anything Goes (the musical we did my senior year), of course being myself I avoided her completely. The sad thing is I automatically thought of her in respect to all the problems we had with her in the production. 1. the part was of a vivacious outgoing lounge singer, and though it was as close to type casting as you can get she couldn't even act like herself on stage. 2. she was an amazing soprano, but the part was alto....ouch.
So here's this to ya'll am I the only one out there that can't help but take part of their identity from who they were in highschool? I'm not anything like that slightly confused artsy freak that wore neon polyester and lived on the stage, but part of me still sees myself like that. I suppose that applies to college too, but college was more a means to an end than a life style...at least for me anyway. Now I find myself watching my students with more interest, wondering if I can predict their outcome or will they be surprises??? Compare yourself to what you were. Would you have been surprised by what you are now???? I think I would have been. I'm glad the path changed from where I thought I'd be.

the nastiest oven in the world

We have completed the move into our new house, everything is unpacked and set up. So now comes the serious defilthing. When we looked at the house I completely missed the nastiness. Why because the woman who owned the house before us was an excellent surface cleaner. Everything was straightened and decorated so that you wouldn't notice the grime. To be honest maybe she didn't either. Its okay to keep things surface cleaned most of the time, because lets be honest none of us have time to clean EVERYTHING all the time. BUT, you've gotta keep things to a decent level in the deep cleaning department. Nothing in the house was deep cleaned. Midew in the showers, grime on the kitchen cabinets, and the oven, the oven well that was my whole weekend.
This oven and stove top looked as if they hadn't even been wiped down in the 2 years that they lived here. The remains of every meal that had ever boiled over on the stove were still there just burnt now, and I think she must have spilled things very often. Yuck! There was grime holding the stove pans on to the stove so that I couldn't tell how to remove them till halfway through the process. And the oven racks were apparently used as grills. Everyone out there Please don't EVER use your oven as a grill BBQing is an outdoor thing, and should never be attempted in your oven. I guarentee the sauce will be hard to get out of the oven.
So after all weekend, my skin is peeling off my hands and my whole family is high on oven cleaner, but I can now say for sure that my stove is steel. So for future reference demand a clean oven before you sign papers.

I told ya'll I should have been nice

So now that we're moved in I find out why it was so hard to move in. The people we bought the house from were planing to take their money and move to Florida. They knew some people down there and they had done some inital research on rental properties. They went down immediately after the closing and tried to find a place. Well the government has just forced the Katrina victims out of the hotels and they have 1st right to any low cost rental properties. So the only places they could find were the expensive rentals. So now I don't know what their going to do. They might stay here in town, but for now they're living with his mother and I'm feeling really guilty. But can I say that had I know this prior to the move that I would have wanted to wait until they got everything figured out before we took possession. I doubt it thats why I'm feeling guilty today, but truth be told I'm reminded of a line in Pride and Prejudice (BBC version)"Don't worry it will pass and probably more quickly than it should." But, new prayer request for the Princes and their unfortunate situation, also my sister-in-law I can't really tell whats happening with her because I don't think she'd like me too, but she needs prayer even though she doesn't believe. So make that alot of prayer. Love you all!