Journal Entry 3

Saturday, October 24^th 2009

I woke up this morning with a mission on my mind: to find a topic to base my assignment 3 on. I took a quick glance at my bookshelves. Towers of books loomed over me. My task seemed impossible. I told myself not to give up so quickly and started my daunting task. Somehow, my quest for ‘the Holy Grail’ was easier than I had anticipated. Within minutes, I found a book that fitted the bill perfectly.

I had bought the book based on the recommendation of my secondary school Literature teacher. However, based on reading the first page, I had decided that the book was boring and thus, I threw it aside. Now however, I realized that it merely did not appealed to me then. I felt that I was now ready to take another attempt at reading it, to take the plunge into the world of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’.

I had a dilemma though. I was also tempted to base my assignment 3 on Gerard Way’s ‘The Umbrella Academy’. I felt that it would be fun to research on the ‘My Chemical Romance’ vocalist and his writings. Should I do something fun and which I can relate to or should I do something that would be safely classified as ‘literature’?

The rest of the day was spent in school struggling with my ‘Typography and Layout’ assignments. For some reason now, every time I see words on the streets, I become obsessed with whether the typeface of the words were suitable for whatever it’s designer was trying to achieve. Sometimes, I feel that I am going mad and that I should just bang my head against the wall to stop my mind from commenting on any more typographic works I see. Well… obviously I know better than to do that. I’m not that insane to attempt to bang my head against the wall.