V for Vicky

Its been complete chaos since uci.

Its the time for midterms which is pretty crazy. I feel like i've lived in uci my whole life. San Diego where?

Now that im officially 18 i can do 18-year old stuff like vote and buy lottery tickets. woohoo! i have a say in how our country should be run.

Since election time is drawing near, ive been hearing a lot of "so who are YOU voting for?" and "this is why i want this person to be president" and...a whole lot of political arguing everywhere i go. It just so happens that my writing class's theme is focused on advertisement and politics, which usually leads to presidential campaigns and what excactly our candidates are doing right/wrong.

As a few people may know, V for Vendetta is one of my all time favorite movies. So imagine how ridiculously excited i became when i found out that my group in my writing class, would be doing our "final huge project" on THAT movie. So how this final project works is that our class is split up into groups. Throughout the quarter, we discuss and write about several different contexts expressed in different mediums (like book, movie, article, documentry...etc.) Each group is assigned to one and it just so happened that my group was assigned to V for Vendetta. It's really just my luck that i was placed into this class. One of the other possibilities was the South Park episode "Im a little bit country." Those who know me, know that im a complete and utter South Park freak and have watched every episode and the movie (note: new episodes just came out for this season! holy crap!).

But coming back to V for Vendetta, i just did a research on Alan Moore and his graphic novel and all the ways the V for Vendetta failed (for him at least). Im not unnerved at all and still love the movie. Anyways....Watchmen the movie will come out sometime next year and i cant wait. I LOVE plots where its set in a dystopic alternate universe.

So writing might not be my forte, but the class is intersting enough. Besides V for Vendetta and South park, i just learned from reading an article, that the symbol of the bitten apple for apple Mac, is actually a reference to eve and the tree of knowledge. yup...apparantly it links to the notion of clean technology free from polluting and robbing this planets resources. AND its like making the tree of knowledge "within everyone's grasp."

oooo.