More Miscellany
Entry posted by ToM Dracone
654 views
If I made blog entries more often, I wouldn't have to stick a bunch of random thoughts into one all at once, but I never feel any one individually is quite worth it... usually, at least. So, off we go again!
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is an amazing book. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm not really sure how to describe it. It takes some getting used to the dialect, and it's definitely a book you have to stick with for a while before you truly start to enjoy it, but once you're done you realize how great it really was. I should find more of her works...
Took the SAT IIs today, in English (Literature), Biology, and Latin. English was okay, though as always some of the questions about passages and the author's meaning or the characters' motivations were peculiar. Biology was, for me, a complete joke, since I took the AP version thereof (a million times harder) last month. 
And I was laughing throughout most of the Latin exam. I had fun with it, as I usually do with Latin tests...
I'm almost done drawing Onua Mistika, my version. I'll have him colored and up in a few days – my dad's recarpeting and repainting his office, so the scanner is unavailable at the moment. I came up with the perfect idea for his legs, and now I can't wait for the summer sets so I can actually build it. And I finally settled on his accent color – green, instead of the red he has now (see Lewa/Nuva/everyone else before '04) – and a design for the Pakari Mistika.
I'm looking at Takanuva, Gali, and Bitil as canidates for the first Mistika I'll get. Takanuva is just cool by himself, cool enough for me to actually buy a $30 set myself; Bitil has the most pieces of the four canister sets I want, and thus most warrants the $13 price tag; and Gali looks pretty nifty, even if not at all Gali-like. Which say you.
By the end of this week, I will finally have seen the Princess Bride. I've been wanting to for ages. I expect to start quoting it shortly after I finish.
There actually will be an MOC posted by me tomorrow. Took a while, but I finally came up with a suitable, if slightly boring, head design...
The Nui-Rama are truly wonderful sets. Truly. As you've seen, I scrounged up the pieces for the green one, and if I can wrest some more black from the clutches of my MOCs, I'll do the orange as well. *loves them*
~ Paradise
22 Comments
Recommended Comments