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21 August 2007 @ 12:37 pm
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Current Music: Let Go ~ Frou Frou
 
 
Izumi
28 March 2007 @ 05:37 pm
Kay. So let me start from the top:
Today for my fashion design class we got to go on a field trip to Mall of America. We basically had to go around to five different stores and try on the same type of clothes in the same size to compare the differences. We first had to go to some teen stores which was fine but then we had to go to an "casual adult" clothing store. Now a "casual adult" store is just a nice way of saying a place that sells old people clothes. My friend and I were like the only ones under sixty in there! We stood out so bad. I was dressed in a kinda emo outfit and I could feel the old people just staring at me as I was waiting for my friend to get out of the dressing room.
Awkward right?
That's not all.
We were supposed to meet back up at 1:20 to go back to school. My watch says it's 12:00 so I'm all like "perfect, we can go look around B&N until we have to go." We head out at 1:00 thinking that we would get there a little early when this one girl from my class runs up to me yelling: "Where have you guys been? We've been looking for you!" Apparently my watch was off and it was not 1:00 but 2:00! O_O;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
It was so embarrassing. Luckily my teacher knew that I wasn't a trouble maker and understood that I just lost track of time. She was just glad that I hadn't been abducted or anything.

On a brighter note:
I just bought this
 
 
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Current Music: Forever After ~ Delerium
 
 
Izumi
25 February 2007 @ 04:47 pm
Just finished Lady Friday.
I feel a little... disappointed.

First a little background info:
I won't go into too much plot detail but basically there are seven trusties called the Morrow Days and each of them holds a part of the Will. Each of the Morrow Days represents one of the seven deadly sins and each part of the Will is one of the seven heavenly virtues. The author doesn't actually say any of this and it wasn't until after I read the third book I noticed It. So far it has gone like this:

Mister Monday= Sloth
Grim Tuesday= Greed
Drowned Wednesday= Gluttony
Sir Thursday= Wrath

Now I had predicted that of the last three Morrow Days Lady Friday would be lust, Superior Saturday would be pride, and Lord Sunday would be envy.
These are "young adult" books so I was interested how he would portray lust and was excited about this volume. However I found it to be kinda dull. One of the definitions of lust is "a passionate or overmastering desire or craving" which could still be pretty interesting but in the end I just don't feel like the author was trying very hard. Lady Friday was barely even in the book and I wasn't even sure if she was indeed lust until the conclusion (which by the way wasn't very climactic).
I also noticed that the virtue for each part of the Will doesn't properly match up with the right sin. Each virtue is supposed to be the opposite of a sin so it would make sense for each of the Morrow Days to be holding their counter part virtue. However they do not.

Overall I don't feel like this was a terrible book but I wasn't really pulled in by it. I still enjoy the series as a whole and I hope that the next two books will be more engaging.
 
 
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Current Music: The Music of the Night ~ Phantom of the Opera