nausicaa

It's quite a good anime, thus far. I'm less than an hour into it, I'm guessing, but it's still wonderful.

There is one thingthat reminds me of another of Myiazaki's films. 'Yubaba' is a character from Spirited Away, one of my favorite animes. And 'Obaba' is a character inthis movie, Nausicaa, Valley of the Winds. Nausicca came a long a good deal before Spirited Away, I know this. So perhaps there is a little of Obaba in Yubaba. I shall do some research.

I checked it out from the library just this afternoon, after M returned it. Quite interesting, he was leaving just as I was arriving. I was there also to get books for my essay, mentioned later.

Even for a movie from 1984, it has very environmentalist undertones. Poisoned soils and whatnot. It's very "earth friendly."

Surely, I'll have to watch it again.

My first essay was assigned in World Civ 1. The topic I chose was: Research the Old Testament as a reliable source of history. Also, I must research the importance of sacred texts in religions. I think it's going to be interesting.... writing this paper. I've done a good bit of resarch already today.

For example, I learned that Moses was recieving the 10 commandments while the Greeks were fighthing the Trojan Wars. I would have imagined these two instances of time to be futher apart from each other. However, I read that they both occured sometime around 1250 BCE.

Or at least that's what I learned on this time line I came across online that I won't be able to list as an actual source. I'm going to have to work it into another source, I guess. Maybe I won't even use it in my essay at all. The paper is only 3 - 4 pages. Double-spaced isn't a book or anything.

Whatever.

Not much has really happened.

We did get that 300 bucks back from the person whom stole all the items from my house almost a week ago.

I have to read this thing about Martin Luther before class tomorrow, so I should do so....

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rachel

70th post

Currently, I'm watching Spirited Away. It's an amazing movie. I'm not going to watch all of it though, since it's already 1am. I only recently took my sleeping meds, so hopefully they'll kick in soon and bedtime won't be long after that.

I don't have much to report on the day, except I slept for a long time and sat at home for most of the day. I watched Juno again, twice. I watched Cloverfield again, and I watched 27 Dresses with X. It was pretty cute. 

I've been having a "one of those days." I guess that's what you'd call them. Just nothing has been right or whatever. I never did anything right. Oh, and Buster threw up three times in my room. I think he had some of a drink I had that was red, because it was red on our blue carpet. Gross. 

I went to bed semi-early last night, but I just could not get out of bed this morning, or afternoon. I didn't get up until 2:30pm-ish. 

I guess my day did get better in the evening, but nothing really happened. 

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rachel