I sent an email yesterday officially accepting a spot in U of South Caronlina's PhD program. I'm really excited. I feel great about the program. They have strong faculty in 19C British lit and in film studies. Columbia is apparently really beautiful, and it's warm there all year. It's crazy to be leaving BYU and to be getting started on a PhD. Wow.
Also, my hair is now a different color. The highlights became a bit more than just highlights, so now my hair is much lighter. It's been shocking to look in the mirror for the last couple of days, but I'm used to it and I'm really enjoying it. I hesitated to upload a picture, but it's a pretty cool cut, so here it is:
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Congrats Anna! A PhD program! What a great thing to do. But we will miss you! BTW - I watched Middlemarch the other night. What do you think of the BBC rendition. I want to hear your thought before I give mine. Unless I just gave them. :)
Fun haircut too! Very different! How do you like it?
Congratulations on both the program and the bold new look. You look great!
Love,
Wendy
Well, there are two BBC Bleak Houses. I really liked the one staring Scully. We all watched it here together and were hooked. I thought it was cool filming and a well done adaptation. And I think Mr. Guppy deserves an award. What did you think? Trivia: In what other movie does John Jarndyce appear?
I really like the hair. Even more now that I'm used to it. It's a fun change.
ok, i'm a moron. we're talking about middlemarch. I liked it. I really like Rufus Sewell as an actor, and I thought it was great for BBC--although Bleak House dunks on it. I think MM is an incredible story, one of the best ever. I ended up reading it after I watched the film, and think it's a decent adaptation. Lots of really quality actors. What did you think?
I think the hair cut and the color are very bold. However, I think it is cute and although edgy, I don't think it is over the top. I think you are such a gorgeous young woman and I think blonde is good on you. You have great skin tone for a lighter color.
I also am so happy for the PhD program. Dad and I are googling the dickens out of everything South Carolina.
Dad and I watched Middlemarch and enjoyed it. Dad then listened to the unabridged version on CD and found it so much more enjoyable because he had seen the movie. Middlemarch is an amazing piece of literature. It is interesting to listen to the commentary that is with the film....although it can be a little much to listen to one of the women talk about all the sensual parts of the book, one can see how cutting edge George Eliot was in her articulate carving of each character.
I don't think BBC is always right on, but I am so grateful that they do these extensive interpretations of so many of the classics.
Bleak House was also very, very good, but I don't think it dunks on MM. "Shake me up, Judy!"
MOM
ps. Kudos to Anna who is singlehandedly keeping the blog alive!!!
MOM
Lovin' it, lovin' it! :) The blonde is a great change....adds a bit of depth, I think, too! :) And a HUGE Congrats on the PhD program in South Carolina. Rob and I were super bummed on UW saying no....but we'll take the blame for that. (they found out you have ties to some true blooded Cougs) ;) But really, way to go!! I am so excited for you.
What was sensual in the movie? Just kidding.
I like Rufus Sewell but think that he chooses stinkers of movies by and large. I think of him as a poor man's Paul Bettany (both of them were in A Knight's Tale). However, I just watched Master and Commander again so I may not be able to give an objective opinion here.
As for the movie. No question Dorothea was a great person. But I didn't get why Dr. Lydgate got such a terrible fate. I don't get why Will Ladislaw was deserving of Dorothea. He was a punk for the entire movie. The whole time I felt that Dr. Lydgate and Dorothea should get married. I kept waiting for Rotten Rosie (Mrs. Lydgate) to die so that he and Dorothea could fall in love. Best character in the book, er movie, was Caleb Garth. Sorry, even better than Dorothea.
I ditto the comment on Caleb Garth...he's the nicest. Dorothea is great, but if I remember, was a little too much for me sometimes.
By the way, Anna, you look great! And I hope we get to come visit you in South Carolina!
Amy
John, I think you are right on with the Dorothea, Dr. Lydgate combo. I too found Will Latislaw to be shallow and pouty in the movie and found the love of Dorothea for him to be incongruous. Dad said that the book was a better treatment of Latislaw and made the ending more believable.
MOM
Agreed! I wanted the will and dorthea thing to work, esp because i like R. Sewell, but I kept feeling like I had missed part of the movie, but when I rewound it, I found that I hadn't. It is better in the book. Much better. Love Caleb Garth as well.
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