I started rereading Cujo by Stephen King the other day, but now I’m not sure I want to finish it. For those that have seen the movie, the book’s ending is different, and much sadder. I may well continue reading it because I enjoy a good scare, but the sad ending won’t be enjoyable. I’m also rereading the first Harry Potter book in preparation for the seventh one coming out this summer. I just want to skip over the first few books and read from the fifth on, though, because I’m impatient. It’s been a few years since I last read the first few books, though, so it’s best if I read them all straight through. I’d forgotten about Harry and the Remembrall, his first flying, stuff like that. Some fan I am! I’ve been getting all excited about the Order of the Phoenix coming to theaters this summer, and have been enjoying trailers: a brief one and a much better, longer, different one.
Today’s plans include going to class, having lunch with Todd, going to another class, and beginning to study for discrete math. I’ll eventually hit up the grocery because I’m almost out of milk and I need some things for pasta tonight, then I’ll make an early dinner because Todd’s going to a baseball game with Bentley, and then it’s back to the books for me. Yesterday in class, my discrete professor told us that the final will be comprehensive, which I expected, but that it’ll also be doable, which is good to hear because I figure it means it’ll be easy enough, if not blatantly obvious.
My biology final is looking to be harder than expected because my professor wants to weed some students out. He keeps telling us how hard it’s going to be, but fortunately he chooses your grade relative to everyone else, so I just have to do better than others to get a good grade. I’ve done well so far because it is a 100-level class after all. The final doesn’t count for any more than the other two exams we’ve had, and we never had homework in the class because it has 400-500 people in it, so that would be a little tricky. His exams are always multiple choice, too, because then they can be machine graded. It’ll cover human evolution, the history of life, the various kingdoms and other taxonomic groups, and the endocrine system.
That’s a weird grouping of topics. Well, human evolution, history of life, kingdoms, and taxonomic groups being put together makes sense, I just don’t see where the endocrine system fits in to all that.
It’s a basic biology course, so I think he’s trying to cover a little about everything. We’ve hit up viruses, metabolism, natural selection and other theories of evolution, ways fossils are dated, evolutionary medicine, and mutualism previously.
Cujo was the first Stephen King book that I ever read. I’ve never seen the movie, but I urge you to stick with the book (despite its ending). It’s definitely a great read :)