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I like a guy who can lip-synch with ease / And sing about colors / And seasons and trees... --"Too Grown-Up," by Free Association |
Wednesday, October 4, 2000 Red Paint, White Knight You're getting a new entry tonight because I have a reprieve at the college paper. I'd thought I needed to write another column tonight, you see, but it turns out that the paper didn't come out this week. In fact, it turns out that the paper had never been scheduled to come out this week, but that I hadn't checked the schedule under the masthead, having no reason to assume that I needed to. Rather than write an entirely new column, I've decided to let the somewhat pathetic one I wrote last week stand. I can use the time, even if I'm spending much of it writing this entry.
It turns out that Erin isn't making it to JournalCon after all. Which is really too bad, and I wish it were otherwise, but I confess that this does make me feel better about not being there myself.
I got red paint on one of the chairs down at Honors and Scholarships. I stopped by after my painting class on Thursday, y'see, and I had some red paint on my shirt and my right hand. My best guess is that it first got on my shirt and then migrated to the hand, although the reverse is also a possibility. Anyway, it seems to have gone from the shirt to the chair. The fabric of the cushion on what was a fairly nice chair. They're gonna try to see if they can clean it, I understand. The odd thing about this is that I didn't use any red paint on Thursday; just shades of blue and a bit of purple. I must have brushed into somebody else's stuff at the end of class, I suppose. (Oh, and don't worry; I deliberately wore a shirt I had no attachment to for this class. I picked it up at PC Expo a couple of years ago; it advertises Brookpoint Technology, and it can get covered in paint for all I care.)
Saw the 1993 film version of Much Ado About Nothing in comedy class today. The guy playing Claudio was pretty much awful; about all that could be said for his addition to the film was that he's pretty. (I'd thought it was Leonardo DiCaprio, actually, but, no, it turns out to be Robert Sean Leonard. Leonard, Leonardo, same difference.) Not the least sympathetic to this modern viewer, so by the end I was hoping Benedick would kill him so Hero could go find somebody worth the trouble of marrying. But no such luck. Beatrice and Benedick (Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh, respectively -- I'm getting all this off the Internet Movie Database, BTW; I wouldn't have a clue otherwise) were quite well done, though. Denzel Washington made a decent Don Pedro, and I could take or leave the rest of the cast, to be honest.
So in Mary Anne's latest entry, she mentioned the Medieval Job Placement Test. I agree with her that it's "rather silly," but for what it's worth, here're my results:
"Your distinct personality, The White Knight, might be found in most of the thriving kingdoms of the time. Don Quixote was a White Knight as was Joan of Arc, the Lone Ranger and Crusader Rabbit. As a White Knight you expect nothing in return for your good deeds. You are one of the true "Givers" of the world. You are the anonymous philanthropist who shares your wealth, your time and your life with others. To give, is its own reward and as a White Knight you seek no other. On the positive side you are merciful, sympathetic, helpful, giving and heroic. On the negative side you may be impulsively decisive, sentimental and misdirected. Interestingly, your preference is just as applicable in today's corporate kingdoms."Gives me entirely too much credit, but... hmmm.
Finally, this actually takes place on the 5th, but it's past midnight now, and I don't expect to post a new entry three nights in a row, so...
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