We have a week off to prepare for exams and I have only barely begun to study. It is Tuesday. My first exam is officially in one week now and I am here, blogging. But when I did the sample questions for my first exam I got nearly all of them correct. That's how I justify my laziness: I'll be able to answer all of the questions about the Treaty of Waitangi without studying.
I think I need to get out of Palmy for a bit. Or maybe just out of my room. Right now the curtains are drawn because I considered taking a nap, but I've done nothing that exhausts me, so I need no nap.
Lately I've been reading Proverbs and was excited to see Wisdom personified as a beautiful woman. It says that God took great delight in her. It reminds me of the muses of the Greeks, that the finest attributes associated with the arts and creativity are female. I wonder if I've moved away from the competition phase of my life; that is the competition between male and female. When I was younger I used to get so excited to hear that a woman invented such-and-such or was the first to do this-n-that. Now it's not as big a deal as it was. Still, I wonder if this is just innate in people: are we inherently counting the good deeds of men and woman in some elaborate scheme to see who's the better sex? I would suggest that yes, we are. Humans are just naturally driven to be the best at whatever.
As far as what hasn't changed about me: I am not good at solving mysteries. Despite reading so many Agatha Christie novels and watching Clue about ten times, I still don't do it well. Last night at Bible Study we played a game of Clue and I failed miserably. Well, at least I eliminated a few people and got that right. It couldn't have been Miss Scarlett. That was too obvious.
I rented Hitchcock's Notorious from the library today but am a bit nervous because of my last encounter with a copy of the film. When my 15 year old boyfriend (I was fifteen too, don't you worry) tried to watch the movie it turned out to be gay porn. It was a copy someone gave me while they were throwing all their movies out. I really don't believe it was intentional, but nevertheless I'm not going to say who it was. At least I knew he was gay before then! It would have appeared really weird if I was still in the dark.
Going to bundle up and go for a walk.
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I like playing Cluedo - especially people that aren't so good. So play me!
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You didn't miss much in my opinion on Notorious. I didn't think it was his best. I'll be interested to hear what you think of it.
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