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Internet, Thanksgiving, Jane Austen
Nov. 27th, 2004 10:23 amSo my internet is up and working again, which bodeth well for my job search (not to mention my ability to produce livejournal posts!). I have an interview for the telemarketing position on Monday. It could be my job to have and make money until I get a real job. Alas, it isn't at the Guthrie, which is only four blocks away, but about a mile away.
Thanksgiving was lovely. Lots and lots of wonderful high-carb foods: ravoli and mashed potatoes and sweet potato casserole and wild rice casserole and Elizabeth's family's cresent roll recipe, which approaches the platonic ideal of what a cresent roll should be. Four pies. No crazy family dynamics and people being neurotic or getting bad tempers, either. Just Rachael, her mother and father, Brynn, Stephen, Elizabeth and myself. There was the obligatory crisis-the oven got locked from the inside(? This is a curious design flaw)- but it was quickly resolved. We watched Aladin afterwards. It was curious to watch it again after so long. Thursday I also read my way through Elizabeth's copies of "Homecoming" and "Dicey's Song" by Cynthia Voight. They also read very differently when you're not twelve years old.
Oh! In further book news, I finished "Emma" yesterday, which means I've now finished all of Jane Austen's six major novels. I still have her juvenalia, which is included in my copy of Nothanger Abbey, so I need not despair of never reading a new word of Jane Austen's again. In order of favorites, I like:
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen's perfect novel, as so many critics and English teachers say)
Persuasion (most sympathetic heroine, with the possible exception of Elizabeth Bennett when one is in a quick-witted mood)
Nothanger Abbey (the most comedic-it is parodying the gothic novel- and its portrayal of Catherine Morland's perceptions and misteps as she comes of age feel very accurate)
Sense and Sensibility (the parody of romanticism is fun)
Emma (Harriet is tiresome)
Mansfield Park (The longest book and the dullest heroine.. yet still worth reading if you like Jane Austen)
Thanksgiving was lovely. Lots and lots of wonderful high-carb foods: ravoli and mashed potatoes and sweet potato casserole and wild rice casserole and Elizabeth's family's cresent roll recipe, which approaches the platonic ideal of what a cresent roll should be. Four pies. No crazy family dynamics and people being neurotic or getting bad tempers, either. Just Rachael, her mother and father, Brynn, Stephen, Elizabeth and myself. There was the obligatory crisis-the oven got locked from the inside(? This is a curious design flaw)- but it was quickly resolved. We watched Aladin afterwards. It was curious to watch it again after so long. Thursday I also read my way through Elizabeth's copies of "Homecoming" and "Dicey's Song" by Cynthia Voight. They also read very differently when you're not twelve years old.
Oh! In further book news, I finished "Emma" yesterday, which means I've now finished all of Jane Austen's six major novels. I still have her juvenalia, which is included in my copy of Nothanger Abbey, so I need not despair of never reading a new word of Jane Austen's again. In order of favorites, I like:
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen's perfect novel, as so many critics and English teachers say)
Persuasion (most sympathetic heroine, with the possible exception of Elizabeth Bennett when one is in a quick-witted mood)
Nothanger Abbey (the most comedic-it is parodying the gothic novel- and its portrayal of Catherine Morland's perceptions and misteps as she comes of age feel very accurate)
Sense and Sensibility (the parody of romanticism is fun)
Emma (Harriet is tiresome)
Mansfield Park (The longest book and the dullest heroine.. yet still worth reading if you like Jane Austen)
