10 posts from February 2008

Juicy Couture!

I finished the novel, and it was great!! As for Part One: When I found out about the financial difficulties of Sir Walter, I really thought that Anne would handle everything well. I thought this because of Lady Russell's trust in her, she was the only one who consulted Anne. Honestly I thought this would play out more in the novel, but really all it did was change their setting. The characters hardly seemed bothered or troubled by the "difficulties." we hear about it occasionally, but that's it. Perhaps it really wasn't an issue, but you'd think that during this time appearances was almost everything. I was aching for Anne when she sees Captain Wentworth again, and she's wondering who he will fall in love with. She's looking at his interactions with Louisa and Henrietta and wondering who he will end up with, that's excruciating to watch. I really believe that Austen writes in a way that we can feel her pain. She wants to spend lots of time with him, but she also believes that he must hate her. She's caught in his social circle and doesn't know what to do. She wants to hide, but she also wants him to notice her. I felt this was really real and relatable for a reader. My favorite character besides Anne is Mary....why? because all she does is complain. I think her character is humorous. She's sick, until she can go out. She's in pain until there's a part. It's obvious she wants attention. If anyone is hurt around her she's in hysterics and people have to tend to her as well. I found it horrible when her son is hurt, and she decides to go to a party because she feels like Anne is a better nurturer. I really enjoyed her character. :)

I finished Persuasion

I came across these Austen editions, and I fell in love with them. I have the complete Austen novels in a leather bound editions, but I also want these....I bought Persuasion, and Emma...I'll probably pick up the others eventually.

"What is the meaning of this?

Several weeks after a young man had been hired, he was called into the personnel director's office. "What is the meaning of this?" the director asked. "When you applied for this job, you told us you had five years experience. Now we discovered this is the first job you've ever held."

"Well," the young man replied, "in your advertisement you said you wanted somebody with imagination."

from Just 4 Laughs!"

I've been training someone this week, and honestly I'm going crazy. This person cannot spell. He wrote "Palm Beach, FL" as "Pam Bech, FL." This is only one of the many mistakes. Many, um lets just says if he answered 25 participants, probably 25 would be wrong in some way. I'm not being mean, I'm being honest. Today a supervisor asked him to help answer some lines, and he said "No, I'm not allowed, Jennifer told me not to." So she came to see me and I explained why and she agreed with me. I can not teach basic elementary skills. 

Oh, and he does not know how to capitalize letters on the keyboard. I had to show him to use the shift function. He still writes everything in lower case letters and then goes back, highlights and changes it. 

I'm going CRAZY!!! I need help...

I'm reading the Time Travelers Wife and I'm really not enjoying it. I'm about 150 pages in and I feel that the pace is horribly slow. I feel as if I'm missing something, because so many people loved this book. I hate when this happens.....

I've wanted to read this book since it first came out. I heard great things about it, and its been sitting in my bookcase for years. Yes, years.... I decided tonight is the night I will start it!