"Present Mirth Hath Present Laughter..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Tuesday Scum Club is regretfully distracted. Everybody speaks very loud and very fast and nobody listens to anybody else with the result that nothing much ever gets done. Rather disappointing, really. Catch-22 seems (I am, mind, not reading it) as though it's better than that, and deserves better. Waen, I can tell, is extraordinarily bothered.

Still, they have agreed to make The D Case their next book! For that, I am quite excited and grateful. Waen will have to tell me how it goes. ^_^ It's her Special Thing, so I shan't go again. I just wanted to know what it was like.

One of the girls was talking about the prom. I wanted to wear my blue patchworked dress, but she says it's much too fancy for that. She says girls wear tiaras and buy awfully expensive dresses and everything, so I shan't be able to wear mine. I'll have to find something else. It's just that most of my dresses are just right for work--they're jumpers, or skirts, made out of pretty, strong material--but not so good for very fancy things.

But I'll make do; just watch.

Jane Eyre, at least as far as I am, seems a lot like Heathcliff, only female. Mum promises she'll grow out of it and I'm completely mad for thinking so anyway.

Comments

[bewareofitalics]

Are you liking Jane Eyre? Is being like Heathcliff a good thing? And yeah, she does grow out of it.

Good luck with finding a dress! I never went to a prom, and the only thing I regret is that I didn't get the dress. *g*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I am, no, and she did. ^^;;

Thank you. ^__^ The only thing I'm really interested in is the excuse to dress up, so...

[bewareofitalics]

Woohoo!

Heh... this reminds me of when I was three and in a ballet class, and was very upset because I couldn't hop on one foot. But I refused to quit, because I wanted the pretty recital costume. Meanwhile, I made my parents miserable with complaining. So they bought me a costume and I quit the class. *g*

(And I did eventually learn to hop on one foot. My mom caught me practicing when no one was looking.)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Awwwww. Oh, dear. I sort of did that with tap class, actually... Except I wanted the shoes and to be like Fred Astaire.

[bewareofitalics]

A noble goal indeed!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It felt noble.

[julietveiled.livejournal.com]

Never been to prom. But I tried on some gorgeously fancy ballgowns at the thrift store the other day. (I looked sexay in the purple one!)

I also got to wear some other girls' dresses for Sound of Music. (I was a nun. Don't ask why a nun was wearing a prom gown.)

I've only read an abridged version of Wuthering Heights, but hey, authors are sisters, so who knows.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I never before! Beautiful dresses at thrift shops are a joy for-ever. We do all our shopping at such places, and have a trip slated for to-morrow. (Ooooh, sexay Kali!)

Heeeee. Nuns in prom gowns. I think it's more fun to imagine, really.

...Totally did not occur to me. *facepalm*

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

No way in hell is Jane anything like Heathcliff. Heathcliff is a total ass. Jane was never a total ass. Good lord, she's the one who got hit in the head with a book and for that had to sit in the room with the dead body! Mrs Reed is more like Heathcliff - she treats Jane the way he treated poor Hareton.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*sighs* I am afraid I feel more about things the way Helen Burns did, and I just think it was rather not sensible of her to keep fighting back when it only got her into more trouble.

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

See, I'm more like Jane. She's never done anything wrong: why should she be punished and just sit there and take it? I would probably not have the guts to act out, but I'd desire some sort of revenge I'd never be able to wreak, and I'd be weirdly satisfied when the board of governors finally sacks Mr Brocklehurst, the hypocritical douchebag.

Heathcliff acts out over perceived insults, not actual injustices. (of course, I adore Jane Eyre and nearly everyone in it, including St John Rivers, while I hate every single character in Wuthering Heights, including the guy who is actually listening to the whole story because he cares more about these screwed up people than I do, and therefore he's a moron.)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I think your Nemo outfit would be perfectly adequate.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

So do I, but unfortunately the beard had turned into a monstrous hairy creature which devoured everything in its path, and had to be put out with the garbage around the middle of November. And it's just not Nemo without the beard.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

There was a picture of that in Discover.