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Stargirl, Spacgirl and Polly Prince- kindred spirits!
I know I promised to tell a story in my next entry, but I've been writing e-mails for the past two hours, and my eyes are starting to go a bit funny. So maybe next time.
Anyway, I just had to tell you, that lately I have been hanging around two quite eccentric and cool fictional characters. The first is Jennifer Aniston's character from "Along Came Polly". I really liked her character, because she was very bohemian and absent-minded- like me! Though my Dad says that I'm not bohemian OR absent-minded, which was a really weird thing to say. Because I am always frustrating him by forgetting to do things around the house! Plus I'm always getting paint on stuff- that's bohemian, isn't it? Anyway, the second girl is a girl called Stargirl, from a book called "Stargirl", by Jerry Spinelli. It came in at my work three days ago, and I kept sneaking little reads when it got quiet (which was like, all the time). I ended up buying it yesterday, and it rocks! It's a young adult's book, and it's about this girl called Stargirl. This is the bit that I read that made me kind of scream and then buy it:
"She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.
She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in the school.
In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was.
She said there was no television in her house.
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her."
I love the book! It's kind of weird- it's sort of like a book about me. You know, the whole Spacegirl thing. But then again, this Stargirl chick is like really, really weird. Like totally way out. More way out than me, even! The cover is also really cool- it's fluorescent pink, with only a white embossed stick-figure of a girl with a star over her head as an illustration. My friend Maree at work says that it might be a revolution in book cover design, where people don't write the titles anymore.
Anyway, I've noticed that my favourite movies, books and songs feature girls who are really odd and sweet and strange and cool. Maybe it's called Crazy Girl Infatuation Syndrome.
I have to go and eat my lunch, my eyes are hurting! |