Now that I am alone...

I am feeling fantastic when it comes to Hamlet! I feel like I understand it when I really pay attention to the words. While there is always a few sentences or paragraphs that make no sense, being able to do class discussions really helps me comprehend Shakespeare's writing. When I just look at the words they end up getting all jumbled up in my mind and turn into useless mush. As long as my mind is present when I read Hamlet, I should have no problem following everything that happens.    

Now the part I am enjoying most is memorizing one of Hamlet's famous speeches, mine happens to be "Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I...". I already have all of fifty-seven lines memorized, that's right, fifty-seven lines. I can thank my wonderful job for that, standing around all alone for hours gives me plenty of free time to memorize my lines. Though I have been caught talking to myself a few times by my customers and fellow co workers. I feel as if all I ever do at work is read over my lines.

I am definitely going to rock this assignment (knocks on wood). All I can hope is that my mind does not decide to go blank when I stand in front of the class whenever we present, or that I can at least recall twenty of the lines. Hopefully all those hours of practice will not end up being a waste of my time.

Fall Break

Ever since I got my job in August I have been feeling stressed all of the time. Right now the only benefit is the extra cash I have, but with school, FFA, three Orchestras and my job I have not been able to relax at all. Maybe I'll get a few hours here and there, but otherwise all I'm doing is working. I thought my Senior year wouldn't get stressful until the last few months, but boy was I wrong.

So it's no surprise that I was excited to start my first ever Fall Break. Well, let me tell you it sure didn't feel like a break. I went to Chicago for five days - not for fun - but to go to my brothers Naval Graduation from boot camp. While it was better than working or going to school, I was still waking up at six every morning. I never should be up at six in the morning if I'm on break. Then when I get back from Chicago at midnight, feeling Jet-lagged and have to work in the morning. Every day after that I was working, and the one day I wasn't working I was catching up on all my homework, at least I slept in that day.

Now that school is back in, I’m praying that my teachers will decide not to do a lot of work while I am gone for a week competing in the National FFA Convention.  Which by the way, I am completely stressing over.

So yeah, Fall Break was a BLAST.

Future Predictions

I have never read Hamlet, or seen the movie of Hamlet so my predictions on what I think will happen are complete predictions. If there are any spoilers I don't know of them. In class we left off with Hamlet making an arrangement with the players so he can trick his uncle to reveal that he killed his father, we were able to do the most famous speech in all history "To be or not to be..".

My prediction is that Hamlet's scheme is going to blow up in his face. I have a hunch that the players will end up using actual poison and end up killing a player. I feel like this will escalate into the new "King" or Hamlet's father uncle figuring out that this was a hoax to get him to announce the murder of the old King. He will in return be furious at Hamlet, possibly there will be a sword fight between the two of them, and possibly Hamlet's mother will accidentally intervene. She will then accidentally be stabbed by her son, distracting the new King who will then be stabbed by Hamlet, but before Hamlet was able to kill his father uncle he called for guards.

The guards rush in and try to kill Hamlet, but since Hamlet is so great, he was able to kill them all. He is the last one standing and sees all the death around him that he caused. Feeling horrible he grabs the poison and kills himself, or maybe he will stab himself (poison seems too Romeo and Juliet). After Hamlet's suicide, the ghost will appear and  feel that his vendetta was not worth all of these innocent deaths, especially the deaths of his wife and son. The End.
As you can see by my predictions I believe everyone will die

*Sigh*

Can I give up yet? This is seriously frustrating me. Hamlet, I thought I liked you, but now that I sit at my computer I see that I am blank. Not me exactly, but my brain, which decided to fail on me tonight. I have finally created about two paragraphs for my rough draft, and I am not even liking what I have written so far. Why? Well, right now given the current state I am in, I can admit that it is kind of crap. Well, my theme is actually pretty good. In fact, I think it's is quite brilliant. It's just forming the words and sentences to go around the brilliance to make it turn into an actual essay that's the hard part. I'm pretty much creating a fluff sandwich, and the only good part is in the middle where all the meat is, while my "fluff", or the bread is all stale and hard and just doesn't belong with the rest of the sandwich. I feel as if everything I now write is ruining what I have previously written. I am not even sure if i could write anything  long enough to make an essay that's not full of fluff covered in even more fluff. *Sigh*

I think I might have left my brain at school, and trust me, it is not returning anytime soon. I think by just using big, fancy words that I can cover up the major flaws, but boy was I wrong. As I read over my essay, well what I have of an essay, I can clearly see that pretty much all of it, except my theme makes sense. Good job Tyra. You are really rocking this assignment. Excuse me while I go sigh again.