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I've decided that I'm illiterate. Although I can read and write, I probably only know like one-third of the English vocabulary. Isn't that scary? Since I was a kid I've been stuck on the A section of my Webster's. So recently I decided to take up the project and at least try to finish it. I had no clue there were words for things that don't have feet, or for those profound pauses made in speech. Perhaps one day I will be able to express myself. If you have any helpful tips on how I can learn this vocabulary and learn how to use it properly please let me know. --Beginning of Oscar Zone-- So I watched the Oscar Wilde movie. Of course I have to tell you how it affected me: About the movie The acting done by the actors who played Oscar and his young lover were excellent. The scenery had this surreal effect on me with the contrast between his family life and his love life. It was also very seductive from Oscar's first kiss to the conversation of his jilted lovers. I must comment that the actor that played his young lover was adorable! The only thing I did not like was it really didn't go into detail about things like: how did Oscar feel about himself (I wanted to know more of what he was thinking), or did the people ever really accept him back into society?It had one of those what - happened - later blurbs, but the print was so small I could not read it. It focused to much on his sex life and for some reason I got this aftertaste that maybe there was way more to Mr.Wilde than just the fact that he was a gay man with excellent writing abilities and highly quotable statements. What was his childhood like? About Oscar That guy was awesome. The one thing that stands out to me is just how luck he was. I envy him because he had someone that dared to point out what was wrong with him and still love him despite all that was wrong. In fact, he had quite a few people like that in his life. That is the greatest gift anyone could give you, to be able to take your personal inventory and still love you despite the fact you're missing a couple of aisles or you're out of stock. Now it's time to read his works. I can't wait! This was all started by the Oscariana created by jonno. Go check it out! ---End of Oscar Zone--- ---Beginning of Boring Personal Ramblings Zone--- Nothing new has really happened. I've been revisiting the Grateful Dead via my copies of Dead Head Hours. I tried to find some special recordings without any luck. Napster would be cool if you could see the whole song entry title. My life would be easier it I had a hard drive capable of storing tetrabytes (is that a word?) I have to save my Linux box, it's suffering from extremely strange behavior. Sending off college apps, I figured frukk it might as well try. Oh and I went on chat after like months of avoiding it. The room was on violence in schools. I met some interesting characters there. I would enjoy chatting more if there places where non-violent, intelligent conversation was allowed. I went to other rooms but found myself too shy to chat. I felt like a fish out of water and a complete loose end because everyone knew each other already. Note: Everyone room had some element of racism except for the computer room! It's scary that people even care about skin color even though they can't see each other. One guy even told me I sounded white. He told me my English is so good, right then I knew he was an idiot. It didn't take too long for him to start yelling send the niggers,spics and chinks back to their respective continents. What an asshole. The topic was supposed to be about school violence and while I admit race may be a small element, he was still totally out of line. I forgot to add, all of this was on Yahoo by the way. I want to learn more about classic music but don't really know where to start. I guess I'll try a search engine and move on from there. I want to learn how to play an instrument. I can do some pathetic stuff on the piano, but obviously that's not good enough! Well thats all for the now, Zaijian!

posted by Lady Ursula at 8:24 PM