Saw "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" last night. It was alright. I suppose I liked it. I think the book'd probably be better, though.
I found the ending very funny. Well, actually, I wasn't sure if it was funny or not. I had to ask my brother first.
"Wasn't there some Simpsons episode where someone's in a hospital and they jump out a window?"
And he tells me about a few episodes where people stuff pillows and people's faces and pick up water fountains and smash them through windows and run off into the distance. Ah, bless him and his vast and useless knowledge of The Simpsons.
So yeah, it was funny.
Well, actually, *the movie* wasn't funny. But The Simpsons episodes made a lot more sense now.
I had a dream about me wearing a hat like McMurphy's. I think I was being him for Halloween or something. Huh.
Turns out that I didn't even get "Cuckoo's Nest" as my novel though! Geesh. I didn't get "On The Road" either, JADA got that one. What a nerd! I got my third choice, Oscar Wilde. Which is okay. Since I really don't think I'd be able to find a poem about mental hospitals to compare "Cuckoo's Nest" to. I think I'll be able to find something about sins and stuff though. Man, I hate poems. I hate them with a passion. GAH! Feel my passion!
I think I might still read "Cuckoo's Nest" and "On The Road", though. Maybe "The Collector" and "Ragtime" as well, but I don't know. I mean, it's gonna be tough. I'm gonna have to find a book store, find the books, and actually read them. I mean, I'm not doing a very good job reading my Pete book or my piles of Beatles books. So why would I take time to read some real literature?
Took a test in English today as well. I think I did all right. I've been a lot more… daring with my writing this year. I wrote something about Okonkwo "exorcising" his fears and a few other flourish-y things that I wouldn't have written last year for fear of sounding stupid. I don't know if this year I've "exorcised" my fear of sounding stupid or if I've accepted that I sound stupid and that's all there is to it. But, meh, what's there to lose? Well, my mark could go down, sure. But I'm really hoping to bring my English mark up this year.
Brought home a book for York University. My dad is still set on me going to a closer university and staying at home. Partly because it costs more to live on campus and partly because he doesn't want me to leave, I suppose. And he's still convinced I can get a 95% average.
I don't know, I just don't know. I mean, I'd love to get a 95% average! I'm not going to try to *not* get a 95% average. But I don't know if I'm capable of it.
Gotta pick my courses for next year soon. Methinks this is what it'll be:
English
French
Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus
Geometry and Discrete Mathematics
Computer Engineering
World History: The West and the World
Communications
Computer and Information Science
And all those are U/M courses, so my admissions average or whatever will be calculated with the top six of *all* those courses. Though I'm not too sure about World History. Might switch it to something else. I'd like to do Yearbook, but that's two semesters and I don't think it's a U course.
Hmm. I wonder when preliminary reports are coming out? Soon, I hope. I wonder what I've got in English so far. I guess we'll see, huh?