invitation

dear class of 2007:

the 2008 ap english class officially invites you to participate on their blog. it seems that perhaps the two blogs are linked so that should make it easy.

c.

Last quarter... vamo q vamo agora hein! Keep your heads up, ppl... it's almost over! :)

great site on the history of catharsis

http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-36

Thoughts from my bookclub book: The Life of Pi (Yann Martel) Harcourt, 2001, Orlando.

"What you don't realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us as much as possible. It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals--domestication it's called--but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will. When wild animals fight us, it is out of sheer desperation. They fight when they feel they have no other way out. It's a very last resort" (373) Any insights from this into Cathy?

"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?" (380) Any thoughts?

"I wished for her anger. I wished for her to punish me. Only not this silence" (386). A bit how Cal feels...

"Then we fought and I killed him. He had no expression on his face, neither of despair nor of anger, neither of fear nor of pain. He gave up. He let himself be killed, though it was still a struggle. He knew he had gone too far, even by his bestial standards. He had gone too far and now he didn't want to go on living any more. But he said 'I'm sorry.' Why do we cling to our evil ways?" Cathy?

"Do you think I want to be human?
Look at those pictures! I'd rather be an animal than a human," said
Cathy.

Does she get to the point that she has gone too far even for her bestial standards and is it at that point that she spares Adam and commits suicide? There is no catharsis, but there does seem to be a recognition that she has gone too far even for herself...

Just some thoughts...it seems that I have been unable to turn East of Eden off no matter what I am doing, reading, thinking, breathing, etc....

C.

One more week to go...

Hey people... Wow, one more week to go until we hand in term paper on the 30th of March. And most of East of Eden (at least the term paper part) will be over... (Btw, cool lil' image I put up there on the right, huh? hehe) The month is soon coming to an end, along with our semester, and soon we'll be graduating. I know this is a sad, sad subject... but it's something we can't keep pushing away or else it'll be much harder once the months of June and July creep by. To end on a happier note... I pray that we all make the most of the time given to us, and not let anything get in the way of it.. Haha, right Tim? Anyway... I guess that's all I wanted to say for my journal entry this week.


Toodles,


Tiffany<3333*

P.s.: I finally took the time to do some things to our dear AP-licious blog, hehe. I'll change it soon... I just wanted to give it a certain philosophical touch since we're doing our term papers, haha... Enjoy! ;)

P.s.#2: Something else I noticed... our blog doesn't know how to count! Because percebi que it usually says stuff like "1 Comments," hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. I drank too much coffee today.

Late Source

So i felt bad cuz i haven't put any sources on here yet, so here's one that's been pretty helpful to me.....it's http://www.steinbeck.org/eastofeden it's the national steinbeck center, bunch of info on him, his life, his works, and all that good stuff..........oh ya, btw....since i haven't been on here in forever, austin the answer to who plays Cal in the movie is JAMES DEAN MY COUSIN!!! and i should get a prize cuz when angie answered she couldnt' remember the name till i told her.......hehehe, all right everybody, hope u all got ur rough draft turned in on time, ill talk to u all later............
ps. I MISS U TOO AUSTIN!!!!!!!!!!!! i heard u guys won 1st at the tourney!! THAT'S AWESOME!!!!!, can't wait to c-u on monday, peace out homey- Michael J. Roome #7

thank u

thanx 4 the tips pete... i love u too... i miss u all!!!!!!! im having a gr8 time here!!! i'll give details when next we meet...
austin over and out...

i found a site, too... HEY AUSTIN!!!

i miss you austin.

ok, this one has names of books on steinbeck, may help, may not... just a list for those who need books...:

http://www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu/
biography/furtherreading.jsp

2 lines... hopefully it'll fit... not like aus's problem....
oh- the hyperlink doesn't seem to work for me, so copy-paste...

and i found the name of a book that is about all his themes and his beliefs shown in his works... google it to see more info:
Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck
maybe there's something like a quote from it on the net...
it has stuff like how he sees women and men, some stuff about some of his books...
brief summary of it on:
http://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?BookId=2980

peace out, and get your roughs done.

i love you aus.

well... im in chile...

hey guys... im in chile now... doing my civic duty as a knowledge bowl student... there was a question on east of eden that we got rite!! yay ap!!!!!! so... does anyone know the answer to this question??
who played cal trask in the film adaptation of east of eden????
hint: mike... u'll know this...
peace out...
austin

another great site...

http://webpages.charter.net/thejacowskis/eden/
on this site u can click on the links to discussion on parts 1, 2, 3 or 4... depending on which part of the book u wish to find information on...
austin... again

nope... lets try typing it out separately...
http://www.oprah.com/
obc_classic/
featbook/
eastofeden/
novel/
eoe_novel_timshel.jhtml

thats the url... u'll probably have to type it out separately...
austin... sorry bout the previous failed posts...

http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/eastofeden/novel/eoe_novel_timshel.jhtml
there... maybe that'll fit this time...

helpful site for timshel and choice ppl

kk guys... for all of u who r doing theses on timshel and choice... go to this site... http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/eastofeden/novel/eoe_novel_timshel.jhtml
so yeah... it's a good source... from oprah's book discussion of east of eden... it doesnt have a ton of stuff... but for those of u who r like me and r desperately looking for sources... its worth a visit...
austin

Blessing???

Okay...So I can´t seem to get the whole idea of whether receiving a blessing or not can influence the outcome of a person´s life. I look at Cal in the end of the book and it seems as if receiving the blessing from his father is one of if not THE most important points in his being able to receive grace and move on...Then I look at Cathy´s life and wonder if not receiving a blessing made a difference in her life...and what exactly does it mean to receive a blessing...Cathy had parents who loved her...was the fact that they may not have known how to love or give her the love she needed a hindrance...then I was reading Sarah´s first three pages and I thought about whether Adam had blessed her life by accepting her despite her past, but then it seems not as Sarah goes on to show how Adam builds his own view of her-makes her into the woman that he wants her to be. Thus, he doesn´t really bless Cathy, not the REAL Cathy, only the person that he has tried to make her be..It seems that it is only in the end with Cal that Adam learns how to truly bless...Just some thoughts....
C.

mike - what is your thesis?

i thought mike had a thesis to do with truth and falsehood (it may still be that, but cathy is just an example...) because i was looking for stuff to back up my thesis (cal's catharsis) and i ran across a lot on truth and believing vs. knowing... if anyone needs stuff like that...

in mike/carps/my version (penguin classics):
p. 447 Lee says "you may dislike me for knowing the truth" - that page also has bunches about not blaming the present on the past... lee trusting in cal...

p. 448 "Cal didn't hate the lie but the necessity for telling it. Cal lied for reasons of profit of one kind or another. To be driven to a lie seemed shameful to him" after adam lied about the scar.

p. 450 "It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it" very interresting - but i wouldn't consider that a triumph, but a weakness.

something i found on cathy:
p. 462 - 463 she likes taking people off-guard and taking control of every situation. "they thought they were so smart....they looked at me and thought they knew me. and i fooled them. i fooled every one of them..... he tried to tie me down... ....but nobody can hold me..... nobody can trap me...." then when cal asks her if she missed anything as a kid, she changes the subject, "what am i doing, talking to kids?" showing she's intimidated.

just some stuff to think about.
so think about it, even if it's not in your thesis.
oh, and if you don't have a broken arm, write for the post.
thanks.

peter.
remember GOD.

A lil' info on Cathy =)

Since I got inspired by El Sniper's post... Here's a lil' sumthin' sumthin' for all, about Cathy, according to Steinbeck...

"When I said Cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so. Now I have bent close with a glass over the small print of her and reread her footnotes, and I wonder if it was true. The trouble is that since we cannot know what she wanted, we will never know whether or not she got it. If rather than running toward something, she ran away from something, we can't know whether she escaped. Who knows but that she tried to tell someone or everyone what she was like and could not, for lack of common language. Her life may have been her language, formal, developed, indecipherable. It is easy to say she was bad, but there is little meaning unless we know why."

And adding on to what Tim said about the regret/pain she might feel when she thinks of Aron... she did eventually kill herself... And adding on to what Steinbeck said up there, we mustn't forget the part of the book where Cathy mentions herself to be Alice's (from Alice in Wonderland) friend.

As you can all see, Steinbeck speaks of Cathy como se ela fosse a true person, because he himself doesn't seem to able to decipher her completely either... which makes Cathy's persona a truly significant symbol of the book. David Wyatt says that...

"Here is a woman who rapes herself, incinerates her parents, beds down with her brother-in-law, shoots her husband, and abandons her children. Eve and Tamar and Delilah and Jezebel are rolled into one. She is realized through her actions rather than her motivations."

Enjoy!


Bjosss!

Tiffany<33*

P.s.: Those who'd like to use that quotes up there, or at least parts of them, should look for me and I'll give you the exact reference so you can "works-cite" it.

Does Good Exist In Cathy?

okay guys,
so i've been hearing bits and pieces of discussions about Cathy, that mysterious half-beast half-human character in East of Eden. What i want to know is... does good exist in her? Sorry Austin i know you haven't finished the book.......so finish QUICKLY cuz i really want to know what u think about this, and you really can't answer that question till the end of the book. She really was a mystery to me thoughout the entire book. I kept thinking, "does she have no conscience? why is she doing all of these horrible things"? Then the whole thing comes up about Steinback describing her as a beast and not human at all. That's what the posts have been about lately. ne-ways, just some thoughts, give me your opinions. ill talk to u all later!- Michael J. Roome #7

MUSE

GREAT NEWS!!! The library (thank you Mrs. Jelliffe!) has signed the library up for trial access to Project Muse which gives incredible access to endless scholarly journals. I have done some initial searching and found just a few which I will include here. (OBSERVATION: I will count all of these as journal sources instead of internet sources!!!)

“In an essay titled ‘Paradox and Dreams,’
John Steinbeck described the American dream as ‘our vague
yearnings toward what we wish we were and hope we may be:
wise, just, compassionate, and noble.’”
Steinbeck Today Steinbeck Studies - Volume 15, Number 2, Fall 2004, pp. 186-197 – Article

Rachel…this article may be of particular interest to you.

Daemmrich, IngridParadise and Storytelling: Interconnecting Gender, Motif, and Narrative Structure [Narrative - Volume 11, Number 2, May 2003, pp. 213-233 - Article

TERM PAPER SOURCES!

ATTENTION ALL AP STUDENTS! Please list ALL of your term paper sources under the Comentários portion of this post! Not only the Graded sources... but ALL of them! :) HAVE FUN WRITING TERM PAPERRR!! YEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWW!!!!

Toodles!

About the fly eaten by the spider...

The Emperor's New Groove!!!!!!!!

BOOM BABY!!!

(angie is it charlottes web?? random guess)

so yeah i havent really done much work on my thesis and stuff yet.. i havent even finished reading the book.. hahahah sorry carps im just lazy/easily distracted. anyways to tie in the socratic circle with the book... or maybe its just apple pie and sushi.. but really it is a good combo.. well i think it is.. enough gluttonous thoughts. so east of eden and socratic circle. we talked about WHO WE ARE. Know thyself. anyways. doesnt it seem that all of the antigonists or "the bad guys" if u will seem to not have the who? sure they know a lot about what they are but who they are is completely beyond them. cathy seems to know who she is. seems to. in fact, all she knows is what she is. she is compared to an animal, a beast. she is calculating and manipulative yet, she has no true knowledge of her soul. she doesnt know who she is so she never can truly be happy. also another thing that appears a lot is the comparison of the antigonists with animals. cathy and charles were both compared to animals... dunno about any other comparisons.. perhaps those farther along in the book can help me out. anyways.. animals do not have souls. and the soul is the definition of the who which defines us. without a soul, man is just an empty shell like any other beast. that divine spark is what makes each and every one of us so special and unique. the protagonists all seem to share this divine spark. aron had it. abra had it. adam had it. heck even samuel had it abeit in excess. perhaps this is just random speculation but it seems like that to me.

another thing i noticed a lot in the book. direction matters.. east, eastward, west, and other such directions play a key part in the story. well thats kind of a nobrainer but oh well.. steinback is an awesome writer.

well guys... im really depressed rite now... it seems no matter how hard i try... star wars keeps on taking precedence over east of eden... its not fair... i really wanna read it... every time i do, i dont wanna put it down... its just the act of starting to read it... so yeah... i'll add my thought of the week here... so tonite after the message at church, i was discussing the message w/ my discussion group and there was a very interesting question... the question was "if we believe the bible to be true, and we dont act on it, we dont actually believe the bible. comment." so i guess thats not really a question... but what i was thinking is that it's alot like math... if we accept a mathematical equation to be true in all situations to which it applies (in other words if we believe it to be true)... we will always use that equation in its applicable situations... we're not gonna just throw it aside and try to do something on our own... thats lunacy... but yeah... so thats how we should be regarding the bible... if we believe it to be true... that should show... because if it doesnt... we dont truly believe it...
austin
p.s. i know im not exactly the best person in the world to be saying this... but i do try... and anywayz... its not really me saying it... im just the messenger... peace...

help me, HELP ME! (fly gets eaten by spider)...well that was like the freakiest thing i have ever seen...) who can guess what movie it's from?

ok, hello all! well, i am still debating on what exactly to do for my topic for term paper, and i was wondering a few things. in your guys' opinion, do you think Cathy, the beast, could fit with this, "In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved." -Steinbeck. I can't really think of any time in the book where Cathy wants to be good or loved except maybe at the end when she leaves all she has to Aron. But why would Steinbeck put that in the book, if he didn't truly believe it about all his characters? And omg, if anyone knows where the heck that quote is in the book, please tell me, i cant find it and i dont feel like looking through 725 pages. And i was commenting to tiff and carps how interesting it is that all the "evil" characters' names begin with the letter C - cain, cyrus, charles, cal and cathy. and the "good" characters with the letter A - alice trask, adam, aron, abra. how fun is that!!! oh, and how interesting is it that carps name begins with C! hahaha, jk. but ok, that was just some stuff and hopefully you guys will respond to this bc i need help, and it would just be interesting. hope you guys have a good weekend. bjos, ang.

Okay everybody, a few thoughts:
first of all, about my "nickname," some of you heard my excuse for having that on there but for those who haven't, i thought that was my hint for my password, thus the name "fun night." Peter- i appreciate your analysis of it, that was humorous, and some people have called me weird before so i won't get too offended.....lol ne-ways......what carps said was interesting about separating us from the beast. I definately think Steinback used his characters to represent that. Cathy was definately portrayed as being a "beast," or someone not quite human, but at times showing human qualities. For those of you who haven't finished the book, i won't tell you the human qualities that she shows cuz i want you to read it yourself!! it's amazing!! man i just really love this book. I was looking over my annotations and there are like 50 quotes that could be thesis statements, all of them pretty deep and powerful.
Well i guess that's about it......oh yeah, I DID CHANGE MY NICKNAME TO.....guessy guessy.... EL SNIPER....... i just hope it shows up.....pretty sweet huh?? i thought so, alrighty have a good night gente!!!- Michael J. Roome #7

We are more than beasts

Well....I thought that I would post this thought after a discussion that I had with Angie today. There was a point in the socratic circle yesterday when I had wanted to share this thought from the book, but there were so many times yesterday that I wanted to share, but all of you were keeping the ball in play and it is much more about you guys playing...I always find it funny when the oldtimers want to take over the ballgame as in when they come to scrimmage.....It reminds me of Meet the Fockers when he hits the ball down on the sister-in-law....ANYWAY!!!....

All of this to say that there is a great quote in the book in chapter 55 around part 3. "Lee said, 'Help him, Adam--help him. Give him a chance. Let him be free. That's all a man has over the beasts. Free him! Bless him!"

What exactly is it that we humans have over the beasts? Is it that we can bless and be blessed? Does Steinbeck present some characters as beasts--like Cathy? Are there levels of humans and beasts? Sei la....hehhehehehehhe....just some random thoughts....

C.

name thing

well...in response to Peter's question about who teh heinzhummer2 is...i have a guess that would make sense that it is kev since his fotolog name is that too...so thats who i think it is peter and you dont have to be confuzled anymore. ok?

and about where names come from, not liek mike that typed his question thingy in the wrong spot, my name comes from a pretty basic background, its just my name in a shorter and i guess cute way. i began to use it when a friend of mine did a cute little arrangement with it for msn and now whatever internet thing i usual put rachie...or RaChiE because i think it loos cooler! hahaha so yeah...i guess names have to do with what people like, what they are called, the year they were born is usually in it (like tiffs) or whatever just a nickname or what they are thinking about at the moment, soemthing that will make others identify as being him because it sounds or looks like the person or soemthing hte person would say. so yeah...i dont know...just a thought on the whole where the names come from thing that peter put.

and i do think that sometime we could go into more philosophical things...but not too deep! hahaha

bjao...

fun nights?

mike, mookers, homerun buddy michael j roome #7 the sniper,

why?
why have you chosen such a name? what was your motivation? i yearn for such bold confidence in the first thing that pops into my head- the way you had it... it makes no sense. nights can be fun, but why would it be a screenname? are you thinking too much about fun, or nights? this reminds me of a venerated Emily Dickenson poem, "Wild Nights" My pagan english teacher in my PACA-sized cedarville public school in ohio made us read exerpts from this sensual poem filled to overflowing with evil connotations, such as the thoughts that come to mind when "might i moor tonight in thee" is read. mook, you are either a mook or a really weird person.... but you're cool and i know you "accidentally" put it as your screenname, because the word "screenname" seemed foreign to you at the time, so you, in your confused state, decided to throw the world offbalance with your

fun nights

for future reference...

who the dickens is heinzhummer2? sounds kinda alienish or like not normal. either creativity at its best or a search in a brand dictionary under the letter 'h'. no offense, just cold feelings. jk. maybe we should get back (if we ever were there) to writing stuff instead of writing about our blights with this blog...

we could get philosophical, like talking about deep stuff. we could tell jokes. we could tell true stories. we could make up a story that everyone elaborates on, each postage (my personal favorite idea...)
... possibilities are endless. we just have to make it happen.

so get going, if you're bored and don't want to do homework.. you could say "i had a lot to do in AP English..." as an excuse for your other teachers and just write a hugantic story.

i love you guys, except i still don't know who the ketchupcar II is...

THESIS STATEMENTS!!!

Heyyy...
=)
Since Mrs. C wants us to post up our thesis statements from our EAST OF EDEN term papers... please do so in the Comentários portion of this post.

Cheers,

Tiffany

frikin FINALLY!!!!!

okay....mostof u ap people r standing over me right now! thnx for your help in setting this annoying thing up, i still don't see why we cant write in notebooks like normal people, but hey, its just my opinion,
ill have to keep this post short today because the bell is about to ring, ne-way, next time i post ill actually post about something of significance, so dont freak out carps.....GOSH!!! this spacebar sux!! i have to frikin punch it for it to work!! how annoying............and Austin, you dont have to feel like a fag ne-more cuz im on here....just letting u know, alright thats about it........ill talk to u all later!- MICHAEL J. ROOME #7

sei la meu

err...eu postei...
byr

(real post) carps, i really have contributed...

... really- maybe 3 days after the original post, i added a comment, but i haven't read many of the other posts: aus's huge-lettered one creeped me out. east of eden is the bomb - it shocked me that it could have such an impact. i feel wierd saying anything at all about the end of the book, but really: the conversation between 'the girl' and 'the guy that thought he was bad' showed how love is supposed to happen - not offering 'medicine', but acknowledging the same faults and loving past them in each other. i loved it. it probably will change my life more than i expected.

peace.
peter

decode:

... really- maybe 3 days after the original post, i added a comment, but i haven't read many of the other posts: aus's huge-lettered one creeped me out. east of eden is the bomb - it shocked me that it could have such an impact. i feel wierd saying anything at all about the end of the book, but really: the conversation between 'the girl' and 'the guy that thought he was bad' showed how love is supposed to happen - not offering 'medicine', but acknowledging the same faults and loving past them in each other. i loved it. it probably will change my life more than i expected.

peace.
peter

my thought of the day...

well ang... thank you for helping me in my scientific research... i postulated that no matter how absurd an idea is or how hard u try to put dripping sarcasm into writing on a blog, there will always be someone out there who will take it seriously... im talking about the prison break comment... just a test to see who would actually respond to that seriously... thank you... this research will be for posterity... now... on the topic of finding a topic to blog about... im going to bring up a great little greek phrase that tim knows about and which appeared on the entrance to the temple to apollo at delphi and also above the oracle's door in the Matrix (albeit, the latin version)... that little phrase is γνῶθι σεαυτόν... which translated means "know thyself"... i have a question about that... if one spends so much time learning to know one's self, how does one grow?? any thoughts??

Hey.. I just wanted to remind you guys that Posts and Comments are very different. =) For the sake of AP-blogging (or journaling, whatever...) let's keep the posts for our weekly entries (the ones that should be fairly long, haha like Ang's post down there..) and whatever small comments should be left at the little "Comentários" link. I'm sorry for being sooooo assim, but this way Mrs. C will have a better idea of who posted their once-a-week entry. So yeah... I think the others are taking long to join the blog, I don't know what happened to them, hahahaha... but I guess we should start picking a topic then. Any ideas?

Beijos,

Tiffany

aw shoot...

welll, the i's really did look like upside down exclamation points when i was writing it on here...i guess i should preview it next time...bjoss, angie

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii GOT IT! (isn't that cool how the exclamation points are like upside down i's....yea...)

okkk!!! i finally figured out how to use this thing!! and tiff, i deleted my other blog so that no one has any chance to read my random and embarassing posts....so ok...now that i'm finally on here, i need to warn some people about a few things....i am on the computer and therefore will not be using any correct punctuation marks, i use dot dot dots for everything...everything.....dot dot dot...and do NOT make fun of my spelling because i don't like to waste time by going back and backspacing....actually, i confess, i just made a mistake and re-typed it....oh well. ok! so, referring back to austin's comment about keeping this up in college, i think it is a wonderful idea since we will all be in different parts of the world....=( so, no one has really started a topic yet, which kind of sucks, because i dont have any good topics to talk about...it will be hard to please the other twenty people in our class with a topic...so...i am now going to go study for u.s. government...omg!! who thought that movie in us government was amazing!!! what was it called, runaway jury??? wow, that was so cool, but kind of sad too, like the background story, and the casting was also wonderful!! didn't u guys think so??? hey, for those of you who watched the oscars, or didn't, but heard about them, what are the main movies you guys would recommend me seeing? i know there were a lot of good ones and that mrs carpenter loved the queen.... what else?? and austin, tell us about the prison break episode, it might help me with something for term paper since i have not completely chosen a topic, and it would be interesting! ok, i'm really leaving now...i'll talk to you all tomorrow!! bjosssss, angie

hey... am i the only guy who's gonna do this???

well... as of now, i seem to be the only one of male persuasion on this blog... i have a message to all u guys who are being stupid and not posting... do it... kks... thats about it... im just tired of feeling like a gay guy who only has girls for friends... jeez...
a very disgruntled austin

YAY!!!!!

hmmm...ok...austin's post was very hard to read and confusing...so ok...i didnt really try to read it...i gave up!!! heehhe i just know he wrote...
so anyways...i found out a way to post normal! ou sei lah! so im not that stupid either right mrs. carpenter?!?!?! heehhe
so i just found out our poetry and reading is only do for monday and i am very happy and excited and just wanted to express that from the whole class that is feeling the same as i am, i think...
na verdade i had forgotten about it when i got home after i talked about it with tim on the late bus and i was happily doing my math project when i get online and see mrs. c nickname...so that was a HUGE relief cause or else bye bye rachel's grade. but yeah anyways...
i dont know about teaching dogs languages...hehehe

bjos...
Rach

u can teach young dogs new tricks too... (virtual sticking out of the tongue to laurie)...

hahahahaha... maybe im not so stupid after all... i figured out how to do this all by myself... anyway... read my comentários if u wanna see what i said before... im too lazy to type it all up again... haha... look how cool... i can change the color... kks... enough of that... i get excited easily... i'd just like to say laurie is a goddess... hehehe... but seriously... she deserves to be thanked for so generously extending my all-nighter to sunday nite instead of tonite... isnt she amazing???? well... on a more serious note... did anyone see the latest episode of prison break??? it was like, soooooo applicable to east of eden... i think they might have used stuff from the book to make that episode... i wont say anymore about it for fear of spoilers for those who didnt see it but want to... get back to me anyone if u caught the same thing that i did... well... another interesting thing that i noticed today is the bounciness of a spring... has anyone ever really considered that??? it like never stops once u start it bouncing... of course... if u let it go long enough im sure itd stop... but thats besides the point... what im trying to say here is that once it starts it doesnt stop easily... so i thought that that's kinda what our lives as christians ought to be like... like a spring that once u start it, it doesnt stop... so that was my metaphorical memo for the day...
Hasta la vista babies...

can you really teach an old dog new tricks?!?!?!?!

Well....let´s see if I figured out in one minute how to post. My thought for the day.....I REALLY do know how hard it is for you guys to write and to put your thoughts on paper. I am trying to put my thoughts together for a film critique for college prep....so many thoughts.....but it is so tiring to put them all together....i probably wont get them done though because i am about to revise yet another college essay.....oh well.....at least i have an excuse.....and i am the teacher....hauahuahuahauah.....but the process can be fun and rewarding once you actually do it.
C.

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Greetings, my fellow AP classmates! Due to my (or should I say "our") lack of creativity (btw, I'm just kidding) I have decided to name our blog www.ap-licious.blogspot.com because I thought it'd be fun. AP English is such a delightful subject and we all love writing, hence the AP+delicious. I know, I know. Some of you must be thinking, "but I wanted it to be...," right Aus and Michael... And listen to me when I say YES you will get your chance of giving our blog different... titles! But I'm sorry (not really) to say that our URL address can't be changed! Yipppeee!!!! I'll soon be giving you guys access to the blog so your personal accounts can be made. Those who have accounts at Google will find it muuuuch easier to access this. Anyway, enough talking. Hope you guys enjoyed your weekend. =)

Toodles,

Tiffany