Well, to be fair, just because it's said by a fool doesn't make it a line that's being mocked.

This is true, but those quotes often aren't meant to be the deep wisdom that people use them for.

Shakespeare did often write wise fools.

Gris, you left out a bit. I'm pretty sure that between "perchance to dream" and "for in that sleep of death", there "Aye, there's the rub", which makes it much more interesting.

That and it's supposed to be a mixed metaphor. Taking up arms against a sea is that futile.

I never studied Hamlet, and, really, I'm kind of glad for it. My teachers in HS had a habit of wrecking things I'd otherwise like.

R&J are annoying, though. And Hamlet needs to not be played by anyone over, say, 28.

My high school English teacher didn't believe in teaching the classics. Not Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, none of 'em. We read Upton Sinclair. And a lot of Dickens. She liked Dickens.

Too much homework. Not enough brains. Oh, and I had forgotten a paper that is also due today. NOT COOL.

One of our English teachers in my freshman high (I didn't have him for any classes) used to dress up as Shakespeare and stay in character on Shakespeare's birthday.

I got him to come to an Elizabethan dinner party I threw as a project in my Shakespeare class when I was a junior. I got an A.

In May we have a Shakespeare day with actors and swordfights and the entire English department in garb! I'm already excited.

I had no use for teen angst movies when I was a teenager, and I have no use for them now. Fancy antique verbiage notwithstanding, I have no use for Romeo and Juliet. The last time I found that storyline interesting was when I was young enough to be watching The Flintstones, and they had that Hatfields/McCoys R&J knockoff with Pebbles. Seriously, hadn't reached double-digits in age yet.

I've always yearned to be a male person with acting talent for the express purpose of playing Hamlet. Hamlet's got angst I can deal with. Howsomever, I have yet to forgive my tenth grade English teacher for making me read the part of that simp Ophelia in our read-through. I got stuck with Lady MacB too in her turn. I guess that's what comes of years of Sunday School out of the King James - one sounds a bit less foolish with the thees and thous than most urban public high school students.

Blinks.

Sorry, didn't mean to let my brain leak.

Too much homework. Not enough brains. Oh, and I had forgotten a paper that is also due today. NOT COOL.

Me too. I'm writing it now. Luckily it is only 2 pages.

I got stuck with Lady MacB too in her turn.

I got Queen Margaret in Richard III, with the teacher doing Richard. Margaret is a bitch you can get your teeth into. The confrontation scenes were terrific, with the two of us haranguing back and forth in Elizabethan. The rest of the class was sure I was going to get into trouble, but I could see Mr. Berryhill grinning.

The head cheerleader got the simpering heroines. If there was a bitch queen about, she went to me.

Well, books are forever. Orgasms are over pretty quick.

Y'know, normally I'd agree, but after the frustrations of this weekend, I'd trade a few books for...

it was an Eastern Star home for women until about six years ago when the remaining 13 ladies sold it to my school.

I was just reading something that mentioned the founder of your school, Kristin. I was all "hey, connections!" What the heck is a "home for women"?? For like, old women, or pregnant girls, or?

Every girl is pretty when she gets her hair cut.

Hee. This is one of the things I have to kinda agree with David about...but I only really mean it when it's being cut SHORT.

Also, I need a new computer because then I can download the pictures from my camera....hot hot pictures.

The hot pictures include one of me in my NEW CORSET! It's awesome. Pinstriped underbust. HOT. i want to wear it for halloween. But am not sure what sort of "costume" I could come up with. Also, Halloween will be outdoors, in Toronto. So, um...need something warm.

Guy #3: Yeah, like kryptonite for funny!

I thought Garfield *was* kryptonite for funny?

Well, I've only ever taken the standard deduction before because it's more than I would get by, say, deducting loan interest.

As long as you don't make too much money, you can do both.

Pie. With Pie. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Mm. Pie.

The lack of pumpkin and Halloween might be the only thing that turns me off of Ireland.

There are enormous scary bonfires in random places all over the city on Halloween, in Dublin, if that helps....

I need to go to Ti Couz when I'm in SF after Thanksgiving! (BTW, did I mention I'm in SF after Thanksgiving? Saturday after, to Friday morning)

We love the ING account. We have 4!

I have one too! I keep putting more money into it--but I'm scared to put TOO much in, and not have enough left in my regular bank account and suddenly need it. But on the other hand...so much more interest!

My dad (grew up on a farm in Illinois) buttered his PB&J. I never got that. OTOH, y'all talking about bread with honey and butter....uh...you put honey on non-toasted bread? Or, alternately, you put honey on toast without butter? Am I a freak?

I can't believe no one wants to even comment on the fact that I had to chase a live bird and pick up a dead bird from inside my house this morning.

I skimmed over this the first time, apparently, but...WTF? Were these the same bird? Or different birds? How creepy! (Oh, apparently, different birds. Even worse!)

Roommate is watching Love Actually, which, a) way too early in the year, b) kind of crap film anyway,

WHAT? I love that movie! It so puts me in a holiday mood!

I was just thinking the other day, with Matilda safely here and dazzling her parents with her charm, that we didn't have any new Buffista babies to look forward to. And lo, Jessica steps in!

Hee! Exactly!

e said he didn't know if LJ would be effective because it was all teens posting their diaries. (This wouldn't be effective because the audience in the session was almost all special and academic librarians - no school or public.

Hah! At teh conference this weekend, they had one session on archiving our history....and there is now an "IDKEarchives" LIVEJOURNAL! I found that highly amusing.