May 16 2008
I wake up
Hear rain
Pitter-pattering
On the roof
Another rainy day.
Walk into school
Feel the rain
Soaking through
My jacket
Another rainy day.
Sitting in class
See rain
Cascading down
The windows
Another rainy day.
Standing outside
Look up and luxuriate in the rain
Try to catch raindrops
On my tongue
Another rainy day.
May 14 2008
Acts I, II, III
Orlando and Oliver are two brothers who don’t get along. Their father has just died, and so the family’s money has been left to Oliver. Orlando is the younger of the two and decides he wants to go out into the world to get away from his brother. Orlando decides to go wrestle Charles, the Duke’s champion wrestler. Meanwhile, Rosalind and Celia, two cousins, are at court. Rosalind’s father has been banished by Celia’s father, his younger brother. Rosalind is extremely sad about this. When Orlando comes to court to wrestle Charles, Rosalind and Orlando immediately fall in love. Celia and Rosalind try to convince Orlando not to fight because they think he will be killed, but he will not be dissuaded.
After Orlando successfully beats Charles in the wrestling match, Duke Frederick suddenly gets mad at Rosalind, and banishes her from court. Celia decides that she cannot live without Rosalind, so the two girls run away together into the forest. They disguise themselves so that no one will recognize them. Rosalind dresses up as a guy named Ganymede, and Celia dresses up as a girl named Aliena. Meanwhile, Orlando also runs away into the forest because he learns that his brother Oliver is trying to kill him.
Celia and Rosalind bring Touchstone, the court fool with them when they run away. In the woods, Touchstone meets a young shepherdess named Audrey, and they fall in love. They decide to get married right away, but Touchstone wants it to be illegally, so that he can leave her easily. Also, Celia and Rosalind are finding love poems and songs hung on tree branches and shrubs all over the forest, and the author seems to be deeply in love with Rosalind. Celia claims that it is Orlando who is writing them. She says she knows this because she found him in the forest, and he told her. Rosalind, dressed up as Ganymede, (a guy) goes to Orlando and tells him that she knows how to cure the sickness of love. She claims that if Orlando pretends that she (who seems to be a guy) is the Rosalind he is in love with, and if he woos her (as a guy) as he would Rosalind, then he won’t be in love with Rosalind anymore. They then go off to try to cure him of his lovesickness.
May 08 2008
Monday
Don’t want to wake up
The weekend was way too short
Don’t want to go to school
Don’t want any work
Can barely drag myself out of bed
Walk into class a little after the late bell
Tuesday
Not much better
Still want the weekend back
Almost the middle of the week
Eat breakfast much slower than I should
Have to rush out of the house
But still get to school on time
Wednesday
Halfway through the week
Only two days until Friday
School doesn’t seem quite so bad
Get to see my friends
It’s going ok until we have a test
Absolutely hate school now
Thursday
Tomorrow’s Friday!
But I still have to make it through today
Luckily though
I don’t have to do any homework
Because I have until Monday
Thanks to our block schedule
Friday
One more day ‘till the weekend
Don’t mind waking up
We barely have any work
Can mostly goof around
After school no homework
Can just hang out with friends
Saturday
Can sleep as long as I want
Have a whole day to do anything
Eat breakfast late
My favorite day of the week
With all the time you want
All you have to do is have fun
Sunday
Tomorrow there’s school
Can still sleep late
But it’s not as much fun
‘Cause I know that tomorrow
The whole thing starts again
School and work and no relaxing
May 01 2008
From the dark night sky,
Hundreds of shining stars
Stare down at me
I stare back
And watch them blink
Like eyes watching
Everything down below
Large clouds pass overhead
Turning the sky an inky blue
Its dark
And cold
Leaving only the light
Of the bright moon
Glowing pale
Through wispy clouds
