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Into the West and Relaxation!
Feb. 25th, 2004 12:20 am"Don't say
We have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come
To carry you home
And all will turn to silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the West."
--Into The West by Annie Lennox, composed by Howard Shore
I am so completely in love with this song right now. My brother got me the LotR:RotK soundtrack for Christmas, but it has really grown on me this past week.
I didn't used to like Annie's voice, but now she has one of my favorites. It's so different from what I'm used to hearing.. very distinctive, in my opinion, at least for this point in time. It seems kind of old style, but not the old style that's getting popular again which is kind of fifties. I guess you could compare Annie to Karen Carpenter's voice, though it's still almost to different to make that comparison.
This song has so many emotions in it. I feel sad, loved, excited, and poetic. My friend and I are saying goodbye, the best friend I will ever have, and they are leaving for what is almost sure to be forever, though we don't want to admit it. I'm trying to calm them, they can't cry for me, for what they are leaving, because where they are going is so much better than here.
This song could almost be a graduation song. I bet you right now that when I'm a senior, around this time of year, I'll be sitting at my computer or in my car or wherever, listening to this song, bawling my eyes out as I sing along. I did the same thing when I left all my friends from my middle school at the end of the school year before I went back to my old junior high, with the Graduation Song (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C. At least, though, that song is actually meant to fit the situation. XD
Mid-Winter Break was last week, so you would expect that I've had a lot of homework so far, right? Especially with all the evil, lets-give-them-huge-projects-in-every-class-at-once IB teachers I have. How glad am I that that is wrong! I had barely any homework yesterday; I did my Math during IB (more like International B.tch for this class) English and lunch, and the ID terms (extended definitions) for IB History barely took 45 minutes. Today I have absolutely no hoemwork; I finished my political map of the 1500s in Advisory, I didn't have Math today so the homework is still completed from yesterday, and I finished my Chem lab in class. This week so far is rocking!
The only bad part of school at the moment is, yet again, Web Design 1. I am now completely convinced that I should not be in this class. Before I thought, 'Well, I don't know how to use the Macromedia products or Dreamweaver, and I really should learn them,' but now I don't think it's even worth it. I am so far ahead of the class it's not even funny.. they are on chapter six in the textbook and are still creating their first layouts for their autobiographies, while I am in the middle of chapter ten and on my fourth actual, honest-to-goodness, fully completed layout. I would also liek to mention that I hate creating forms. There is a reason I never code my own forms, thank you very much, and it's because I HATE THEM. Frames, too. Why can't I just use tables? I love tables. Tables roxors my soxors. Waterit, frames and forms can rot in hell for all I care. I hate them.
Heh.. get the idea yet? XD
We have come now to the end
White shores are calling
You and I will meet again
And you'll be here in my arms
Just sleeping
What can you see
On the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea
A pale moon rises
The ships have come
To carry you home
And all will turn to silver glass
A light on the water
Grey ships pass
Into the West."
--Into The West by Annie Lennox, composed by Howard Shore
I am so completely in love with this song right now. My brother got me the LotR:RotK soundtrack for Christmas, but it has really grown on me this past week.
I didn't used to like Annie's voice, but now she has one of my favorites. It's so different from what I'm used to hearing.. very distinctive, in my opinion, at least for this point in time. It seems kind of old style, but not the old style that's getting popular again which is kind of fifties. I guess you could compare Annie to Karen Carpenter's voice, though it's still almost to different to make that comparison.
This song has so many emotions in it. I feel sad, loved, excited, and poetic. My friend and I are saying goodbye, the best friend I will ever have, and they are leaving for what is almost sure to be forever, though we don't want to admit it. I'm trying to calm them, they can't cry for me, for what they are leaving, because where they are going is so much better than here.
This song could almost be a graduation song. I bet you right now that when I'm a senior, around this time of year, I'll be sitting at my computer or in my car or wherever, listening to this song, bawling my eyes out as I sing along. I did the same thing when I left all my friends from my middle school at the end of the school year before I went back to my old junior high, with the Graduation Song (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C. At least, though, that song is actually meant to fit the situation. XD
Mid-Winter Break was last week, so you would expect that I've had a lot of homework so far, right? Especially with all the evil, lets-give-them-huge-projects-in-every-class-at-once IB teachers I have. How glad am I that that is wrong! I had barely any homework yesterday; I did my Math during IB (more like International B.tch for this class) English and lunch, and the ID terms (extended definitions) for IB History barely took 45 minutes. Today I have absolutely no hoemwork; I finished my political map of the 1500s in Advisory, I didn't have Math today so the homework is still completed from yesterday, and I finished my Chem lab in class. This week so far is rocking!
The only bad part of school at the moment is, yet again, Web Design 1. I am now completely convinced that I should not be in this class. Before I thought, 'Well, I don't know how to use the Macromedia products or Dreamweaver, and I really should learn them,' but now I don't think it's even worth it. I am so far ahead of the class it's not even funny.. they are on chapter six in the textbook and are still creating their first layouts for their autobiographies, while I am in the middle of chapter ten and on my fourth actual, honest-to-goodness, fully completed layout. I would also liek to mention that I hate creating forms. There is a reason I never code my own forms, thank you very much, and it's because I HATE THEM. Frames, too. Why can't I just use tables? I love tables. Tables roxors my soxors. Waterit, frames and forms can rot in hell for all I care. I hate them.
Heh.. get the idea yet? XD
