Random is the name of the game

I feel like I have too many topics running around in my brain that I want to write about today. Maybe I should just make a lovely bulleted list.

Or just ramble!

Today, my Bible study and my Crime and Punishment assignment overlapped. And it was pretty much the most exciting thing that's happened to me all week. Raskolnikov and Sonya read the story of Jesus bring Lazarus back to life and for our discussion board I chose to answer this question: Analyze the Lazarus passage that Sonya reads and explain how it might apply to both Sonya and Raskolnikov, and their relationship. Crime and Punishment has major themes of redemption and suffering. It was interesting reading John 11:1-45 from the Bible and reading about Sonya and Raskolnikov reading the same story. Sonya has this amazing faith despite her circumstances. She also has this want to save everyone, even if it means sacrificing herself (basically, she becomes a prostitute for her family). The Lazarus story is pretty fantastic itself. Even in the midst of death, Jesus is this amazing hope and salvation.

Crime and Punishment is quickly becoming one of my favorite books.

While we're on the subject of books... the Brontë sisters are simply incredible. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are two of my absolute favorite books. I can reread them over and over. And the Brontës' men. Be still my heart. They're incredibly messed up but so passionate.

Firstly, Mr. Rochester:

"'Because,' he said, 'I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and the I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, -- you'd forget me.'" ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"'Jane, I never meant to wound you thus. If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine. Will you ever forgive me?'" ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Then, Heathcliff:

"'May she wake in torment!' he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. 'Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there -- not in heaven -- not perished -- where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer -- I repeat it till my tongue stiffens -- Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you -- haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe -- I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always -- take any form -- drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live wihtout my soul!'" - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Oh, Brontë sisters. You created the best fictional men.

On a lighter note, I found this video about the Brontë sisters yesterday. I found it highly amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgLChwfIpEQ

Moving on...

I really like the band Muse. I think that they're my favorite band right now. This isn't random. I'm listening to my youtube Muse playlist. Seeing them in concert was pretty much spectacular.

Yesterday I picked up my graduation cap and gown, and announcements. If anyone needs an angel costume, just give me a call. My stark white graduation gown will work perfectly. Now I have to find a white dress to wear under it. Because I definitely need to look whiter than I already am.

But the end of the year is approaching. Fast. Kind of crazy.