A Curious Girl: Friday the 13th

Not so much bad luck - more bad me. Got up late as I went to bed too late, and had to put notes in registers for my psychology experiment. Managed to get my second bus on time, put two notes in the registers, and the remaining two were for B8. I considered that all I needed to do was got to B8's formroom and give their form teacher the other two notes for participants, and discovered their teacher was Mrs. Cook! She's in the Christian Union, and I was using her room, so even more lucky (of course it has nothing to do with the frantic praying :-) ) So I knew I wouldn't have difficulty with them. Mysteriously, a year 10 girl turned up - didn't asked for any year 10s, but decided to use her as my Year 8 girl hadn't turned up. A Year 10 boy turned up at the end of lunch, too, but I sent him away. Weird. Hope I didn't pick up someone else's participants. Maybe I just have a rather clumsy guardian angel. (Guardian angels, what a nice thought! Anyone else think so? Very romantic.)

Trying very hard to be patient with Christina, and not succeeding all that well :-) She won't borrow I Kissed Dating Goodbye when I've bought it(don't worry, I will buy it - just got to get Mum's birthday present out of the way and ensure that I still have my clothes money. Aside from anything else, I'd like another pair of flares. I get the feeling that the Seventies never ended.). This might give you a clue as to why I'm getting impatient. Sorry Chris :-) I s'pose you're either annoying me because I don't understand you at all, or maybe I understand you too much!

I have to write a Rupert Brooke essay still - Dr. A II says that I'm allowed to write that I think he wrote irrelevant rubbish (so to speak) so long as I explain why. So that's OK. Tried the honesty thing - oddly, it works very well. :-) If instead of shinking away, I just tell a teacher straight up that I didn't do it because I just plain didn't, and they like that much better. Weird. Wish I'd tried it on my Year 8 English teacher, only she probably would have bitten my head off. She didn't like any excuse. She probably wouldn't have even liked 'Sorry, Miss L, I didn't do it because I am lazy and not worthy of your teaching.' Even though she'd agree. Although if it wasn't for her utter scariness, by now I probably would have forgotten what homework is! So three cheers for Miss. L. She was a good teacher too. Just don't get on her bad side. Ever. At all. In a million years.

I realised that I think too deeply. For instance, this morning I realised that Disney's A Little Mermaid is really about the conflicts experienced by adolescents (that's teenagers - not six year olds, as CapAlert seem to think). Ariel has to deal with her protective father, and the temptations of a world that seem better than hers, dealing with attraction, and the difference between good people and people who'll give her what she wants. She's naive, but she's also confident enough to try for what she wants to do. It's transition - with her family, she's safe, but is she really doing what she wants? Is it better to risk everything on a man or give up on that dream? If you ask me, the ending was a bit of a cop-out. Give me an ending where Ariel goes back to the ocean to go to Uni and teach children that humans and merfolk can be friends.

Relieved to discover that I'm not the only one who finds hidden meaning in Disney films. Aside from Steve Mawston in Who do you think you are? likening Simba in The Lion King to our status as the children of a King (he's alive, and he lives in you), there's also a thing I read today on the back of Psychological Review (Abi and I were in Mrs. T's office). It reckoned that Dumbo was an exploration into madness - ie. undesirable behaviour is classed as mad (as with Dumbo's mother saving him from humiliation), and Dumbo's hallucinatory experience that revealed to him tht he could in fact fly. Can't help but feel that if someone wanted to explore madness, they'd have chosen a slightly more believable story.

I have a love-hate relationship when it comes to Disney. I like a lot of the origial films, but Toy Story had the only good sequel, Pocahontas had a talking tree (would have been quite good otherwise) there is a serious overflow of cute for cuteness sake (we're talking bad cute, not good, clever cute). And I don't really like Mickey Mouse - a lot of it seems so manufactured and artificial. The animated series I liked were Ducktales and Darkwing Duck - slight overlap of characters, too. Love Darkwing - one of my favourite superheroes of all time. But I find a lot of the humour in the cartoons rather forced, or simply too slapsticky. And the sequels - what are they thinking?? Return of Jafar had a terrible script and no Robin Williams, Simba's Pride was a wishy-washy rehashing of The Lion King, Pocahontas II??? Haven't seen it, or the Beauty and the Beast additional films, or Little Mermaid II. Save us the sequels unless you're planning to do something good with them.

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