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Happy thread

[philstar22]

What has made you happy recently?

Re: Happy thread

[greghousesgf]

drinking a glass of wine and listening to the Rolling Stones

Re: Happy thread

[kaijinscendre]

I got my new ipad! My sister convinced me finally. Can't wait to crack into it.

Re: Happy thread

[(Anonymous)]

I took a walk in the snow this morning and got to pet several friendly dogs along the way. I love how happy dogs are to meet people. So many happy wiggles!

Re: Happy thread

[philstar22]

After a very long and very stressful day, I have come home to pizza and a warm, soft, fluffy, purring kitty. Life is good.

Re: Happy thread

[(Anonymous)]

The Vikings lost last night! Also, it's nice to hear the vet techs say that my cats are sweet. (They get scared when at the vet but generally don't lash out due to being scared.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I got back into dancing by way of Just Dance. I used to dance as a way of losing weight and getting fit and after a decade or so of being out of it I'm approaching this slow and steady. I can't describe how happy it makes me.

Re: Happy thread

[(Anonymous)]

I teach high school English and World Mythology and this semester I've got a delightful bunch of students. Positive, reasonable kids with good heads on their shoulders and good attitudes, and the vibe in my classroom is so chill and relaxed. They simply handle their business. I feel truly blessed, after the difficult semester I had in the fall last year.

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[(Anonymous)]

Was serving a lady at work yesterday and her tiny Jack Russell came around the counter and started jumping up my leg for attention. Started giving her cuddles and her owner went "Oh my god, she never does this. She hates everyone. She hates people."

I'm a cat person so it was especially odd but it put a smile on my face for the day.

Re: Happy thread

[(Anonymous)]

Someone on AO3 has blessed one of my rarepairs' tag with a new fic (multichaptered, even!) and I'm so fucking happy because it feels like they fed me after many years (... even though the last fic before this one in the tag was uploaded just three months ago, but if you'd know the ship and looked at its tag, you'd understand why I'm acting this way).

Re: Happy thread

[(Anonymous)]

It's looking more and more that we might actually get good snow.

The only possible curse is that we won't get it until next week. But still, kind of awesome considering I haven't seen real snow in six years. I know I shouldn't bet on anything that far out but the forecast keeps returning to that, so...

Re: Happy thread

[(Anonymous)]

I recently found out that my library has 8 volumes of the Saint Young Men manga on their system, so I've been getting to read the first two volumes so far.

High School Memories

[(Anonymous)]

What was your favorite book you read for a high school English class?

What assigned reading in school proved to be the least enjoyable and most painful to get through?

Re: High School Memories

[philstar22]

War and Peace. For AP English we had to read 2 things the summer before: War and Peace and Wuthering Heights. I only enjoyed one of those.

And honestly, AP English was the first class where we read whole books. So it was really fun.

My favorite non-full book thing is a tie with Julias Caesar and Macbeth. The year we read those was what started my Shakespeare love.

I hated Wuthering Heights. I had to remind myself that I was doing this to get into AP English. And it still took me far longer than it should have because I could only stomach a little at a time.

Re: High School Memories

[kaijinscendre]

Honestly, I loved most of the assigned reading. The Scarlet Letter, The Good Earth, To Kill A Mockingbird, Animal Farm. The thing I mostly hated was Shakespeare. I still hate Shakespeare, lol.

Re: High School Memories

[(Anonymous)]

Favorite: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. If that doesn't count because it's a play, then To Kill a Mockingbird.

Most painful: The Grapes of Wrath.

Re: High School Memories

[(Anonymous)]

Favorite: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Least Favorite: The House on Mango Street

Re: High School Memories

[(Anonymous)]

There was a great outcry by parents targeting the English department for being "too feminist" and wanting more books "for boys" at my school, so they added some braindead YA stuff with male main characters. I don't know if it was the teachers being pissed off at having to do it, or the parents really wanted simple books for boys to understand (many boys were deeply insulted by this!) but they were uniformly bland and terrible.

Oh! Plus, "The Old Man and the Sea" because it was about a man, short and used simple language.

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[(Anonymous)]

Most reading material kind of sucked for me, because I wasn't really a reader unless it was terrible YA books. I honestly don't remember enjoying any read in HS. Yet I'm glad I was forced to read everything I did, because some of that stuff has been getting banned in places these last few years (To Kill A Mockingbird, A Separate Peace, Diary of Anne Frank, etc).

Re: High School Memories

[(Anonymous)]

I moved each year so had a lot of repetition. To Kill a Mockingbird was assigned reading every year from 8th through 11th. I still really like it but it did get a bit boring.

My only other assigned books were Tess of the dUrbervilles in 9th grade but we moved right as my class started reading it. And then senior year we spent the ENTIRE year on Oedipus the King. It was painful. It wouldn’t have been bad if we’d spent a quarter of the time on it, but the entire year was squandered on that one little book.

I would have had a better mix if I didn’t struggle in math, because then I could have taken AP English. But I’ve always felt like moving all the time just totally screwed me because I’d miss all the usuals except TKAM. I read a lot of them after graduation just because I felt like I was the only person I knew who hadn’t read certain books.

Re: High School Memories

[(Anonymous)]

Who even does the assigned reading? I only bothered with these books for my college enterance exams. I think no one really read anything longer than a short story in my class.
I liked Dostoyevsky tho. His sentences are short and simple, his dialogue is organic and his look into character's head is intimate. The thoughts about life and death in Idiot are thought provoking, the ones about the hanging in Swizzerland. I'm still wandering about Knyaz Myshkin's diagnosis in modern terms.

Re: High School Memories

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think there was an English lit book that I hated throughout my school years. In fact I remember getting really engrossed in the books and would get in trouble when it was obvious that I was reading ahead of the class instead of chapter by chapter for each class.
I remember Adeline Yen Mah's memoir Chinese Cinderella having a big impact on me when I was 13 years old. Then there was I'm the King of the Castle by Caroline Woolfe that made me cry buckets because the bullying themes of the story and tragic ending hit way too close to home, but also made me love it even more.
Also C.S. Lewis's Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe.

Re: High School Memories

[hey_hey_hey]

People actually read the books they were assigned in high school. Let me see if I remember.

English 1 was A Separate Peace. Didn't read it.

Basic English 2 (or was it 1, I can't recall) was The Pearl. The teacher read the whole thing aloud, so that really doesn't count.

English 2 was To Kill a Mockingbird. I had already read it so that didn't count.

English 1 was The Chocolate War. Didn't read it.

English Lit was Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights. Didn't finish either one of those.

RIP Tony Slattery...

[(Anonymous)]

Died at age 65 of heart attack. :(

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93lqxgznnwo