Copying my Sister. and film.

Once again, I find myself opening with "sorry for the long lag time between blogs," but, unfortunately, it's true. After reading LesUr's blog about ME, I decided to I would blog about HER. Well, mostly about what she blogged about. Which, when you look at it, is somewhat cheating or plagiarizing. Oops. My COMM 114 (Argument and Critical Discourse) teacher, MTH 231 (Discreet Mathematics for Computer Science majors) teacher, COMM 180 (Movies and Film Rhetoric) teacher AND ECE 112 (Electrical Engineering, Concepts) teacher would be ashamed (why yes, that is me trying to say that all FOUR of those teachers spent the first half of the first class talking about plagiarism and how it's bad.) And yes, that was me telling you dear attentive readers all about the classes I'm taking this term. Except for Tap I, which is VERY hard to plagiarize in, as it's dance. So you can just say you thought of it on your own, or that copying is the highest form of flattery. And they'll take it, because they're dancers, and dancers crave flattery, right?

On a different note, this film class is very exciting, as

1. I get to take it with LesUr;
2. It requires 0% of outside work for me; and
3. It's actually interesting, and the professor is very good and retiring, which means he doesn't care what he says.

On that note, we watched our first movie tonight, Deliverance.

Now, this 1972 "thriller classic" as Wikipedia says (see, I cited it, no plagiarism!!) was, on most levels, pretty good. The famous "dueling banjos," scene was excellent, though I did not realize that it was actually between a guitar and a banjo, but that's OK, that kid was amazing.

[thinking back, I don't think it was actually the kid playing it. But either way, it looked pretty darn impressive!]

Overall, though, the general tone of the movie was pretty creepy. They mention some pretty heavy stuff, stuff that I did not expect from that film. I had some preconceived notions going into it, but nothing prepared for that all that. However, I think the general rhetoric of the film was excellent. The filmmaker used excellent suspense techniques, as well as an almost lack of soundtrack to create tension on the screen. Ingenious.

So, on to happier topics. M and I are doing well, thank you for asking. Go look at the latest (read: 684) xkcd comic to understand a little something about us.

And yes, I DID just find the little link tool to input links straight into the text. So enjoy the little sites I send you off to, I promise they're worth it.

Except maybe THIS one...