<p>Reading an obscenely long book in a foreign language saves me from being bored.</p>
<p>I’m going to read La Peste by Camus and Madame Bovary by Flaubert in French, this summer. That will be the extent of my foreign language reading.</p>
<p>Alas, but that is not a foreign language for you. At least, you know French better than I know Spanish.</p>
<p>I liked Madame Bovary. I think I’m going to read it again. I bet it’s much better in French, though.</p>
<p>Ugh. That reminds me. French (now also German) Russian Chinese.</p>
<p>Polish. Italian. Gaelic. Afrikaans. Korean.</p>
<p>You’re not helping.</p>
<p>My ingenious idea is really just a clever device. But clever.</p>
<p>I’ve got to start my homework. And write my screenplay. SO MUCH TO DO.</p>
<p>Whenever I had homework that I couldn’t start, I used to stack it on top of my laptop.</p>
<p>Do you get to use your computer while you’re in the hospital? Do they have wireless?</p>
<p>I couldn’t really stack homework on top of my computer. Because it’s a desktop. But I do stack homework on my desk, I swear.</p>
<p>I have an [url=<a href=“http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html]article[/url”>Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky]article[/url</a>] for our resident trilingual IB student.</p>
<p>I can read ten pages of *Cien a</p>
<p>This year, I did a huuuge stats project on a study within my school on a possible relationship between language and intelligence. That article would’ve been an excellent source if it was written like 7 months in advance.</p>
<p>Also, my ToK teacher loves Edge.</p>
<p>TMI.</p>
<p>I’m reading Crime and Punishment (I fully wrote Crime and Prejudice first, rofl) and it takes me really long too. I can read like 10-15 pages in an hour, and I can’t really figure out why. My book has small-ish print, and it’s ridiculously descriptive, so…</p>
<p>I have to read Crime and Punishment.</p>
<p>Have to or want to? It’s very strange.</p>
<p>Happy Canada Day, America.</p>
<p>For some reason, Crime and Punishment took me forever as well. I got really distracted reading it, as the paragraphs were so long. And *Cien a</p>
<p>It’s part of my homework. I’ve read it before, though.</p>
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YES. MOST TRUEST THING EVER.</p>
<p>I’m headed to the capital/capitol tomorrow to see stuff blown up. Any requests you want me to pass along to the president?</p>
<p>Um. Something about gay marriage and abortion. And that I think I saw him in Transformers, but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>I saw Transformers today and there was a whole row of soldiers in uniform below me, and I wager approximately 3/4 of the theater was retired military. I wasn’t expecting the movie to be so military-y. I thought it was funny and a little awkward. My dad said something about the actors holding the guns wrong, and it bothered me that they weren’t wearing helmets. But still. It was awesome. And I wrote an awful lot about Transformers, jesus.</p>
<p>HOOAH. Tell the prez that too.</p>
<p>Will do, will do. I’ll probably just be shouting it at the fence.</p>
<p>Transformers=suck. </p>
<p>Watch Moon and Man on Wire. Now.</p>
<p>I made a common app account. It is not a pretty website, by any means. And UChicago’s essay topics for this year are something of a crapshoot. “Why did (or didn’t…) you get caught?” Okay.</p>
<p>Today I learned how to lyse cells for the purpose of protein extraction and quantification. It was fun.</p>