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Chuck Review: Chuck, I Am Your Motherby Dan Forcella at . Comments
In usual Chuck fashion, things are coming to a close in rare form.
"Chuck Versus the Last Details" built on the success of "Agent X," creating another absolutely entertaining hour of television that made this viewer anxious for next week's episode.
You have to take Chuck with a grain of salt. Okay, maybe this season it is with a shaker, but that doesn't mean that the show isn't great at what it does.
You are not coming into an episode, or even a season, thinking that Chuck is going to be quality serious television. You know you are getting a goofy show that takes the serious subject of spies and flips into a farcical story about nerds hunting down bad guys.
It's not Mad Men or Breaking Bad, but it's fun, and "The Last Details" was a great example of that.
Major progress was made on both long running plots, as the rehearsal dinner paved the way for the ensuing wedding and Vivian Volkoff's role as Chuck's nemesis took a big step forward, but it was the bevy of comedic moments that made this such an enjoyable time. Before we take a look at how the Chuck Triple Threat played out this week, pump yourself up by singing the Imperial March...Comedy
How awesome was that? I mean all of the Star Wars references were fantastic, but Chuck and Morgan getting psyched to play the role of a bad guy by singing Darth Vader's theme song was just great. Coming on the heels of the "dress Chewy/Casey up as a prisoner" routine made it that much better.
If there has been one thing holding Chuck back as of late, it has been not enough Morgan Guillermo Grimes jokes. Between him assuming he would have been taking his mom to Chuck's wedding, liking a gun that makes him look big, and trying to sound evil by telling his sub-par henchman to "shoot the puppy," the bearded one was on fire.
That isn't even taking into account the perfect scene in which he uttered everything he could think of related to Italian. He began with Ciao, then graduated to spaghetti, and finished off with "It's a me, Mario." Pure genius on every level.
While there were a couple of great one shot moments from the likes of Casey (taking the guard's pants off) and Beckman ("Oh thanks for the invite"), Jeff and Lester made up for the rest of the laughs of the episode. Of course they have footage of Chuck's nip slips! And Lester's video for Chuck and Sarah...What the heck was that? And for any of you NBA fans out there, was Lester making fun of Kevin Garnett with his "anything is possible" routine? If so, I love that.
Meanwhile, there was also a good amount of action, which was highlighted by the scene that followed Morgan and Chuck getting pumped by the Imperial March. First with Vivian and Ray Wise killing all of the bad guys with the new Norseman, then with Casey shooting all of the "cleaners" blind in order to save Morgan. Is there anything Colonel Casey can't do?
We also had a nice Mission Impossible scene to start things off, as Mama Bartowski made her reappearance in attempting to steal the Norseman from Vivian Volkoff. And finally, there was that exciting and hilarious scene where Chuck used his flashing capabilities to save Morgan from the balcony.
The rehearsal dinner was beautiful, and who would have thought it would have been capped off by a wonderfully romantic montage video by Jeffrey Barnes?!? It was a nice touch to make the loser a winner at something, and I bet the dude never stops talking about that big smooch he got from Ellie.
But the sweetest moment was the toast that Mary gave to Sarah. "Sarah is one of the strongest and one of the most amazing women I have ever met," the future mother-in-law said. It was a nice touch after all of the conflict Chuck went through in deciding who to side with at different points in the episode.
Moving Forward
Now with only one episode left in the season, and possibly the series, I am worried that it has become a bit too difficult to wrap things up nicely. Pleasing both the fans of the spy elements and the fans of the relationship elements is going to be tough. As a fan of both, I don't know how they will ever pull this one off.
What did you all think of "Chuck Versus The Last Details?" And what do you expect to see in next week's finale?
Dan Forcella is a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. Follow him on Twitter.Tags: Chuck, Reviews
i really love Chuck.wow season 5 can't hardly wait.way to go Chuck!
i really love Chuck quite addicted to it actually.wow season5 can't hardly wait way to go Chuck!
'Chuck' isn't just goofy and crazy. It also has the balls to do real serious drama from time to time, just like at the end of this episode. It features one of the best ensemble casts ever, all of whom have been given glorious shining moments. Adam Baldwin brings such tender subtlety to a role which could have been 'just' your average BAMF. With Adam in charge, Casey gets nuance, layers and is a real personality. Why Adam hasn't had an Emmy nomination for this role is beyond me.
Why not kill Sarah? And why just pretend to do that? Obviously she will survive but if they had the balls to kill her it would be a major reason to renew the show, besides the low rates, and a significant motivation for people back to watch Chuck again.
WHAT!!!???!!?? Chuck is on the chopping block AGAIN!!??!? Will NBC NEVER learn!!??? One of the best shows on television--NBC, STOP MUCKING around and leave Chuck on the air!!!!
Amazing!!! It vas an awesome episode..I'd have to say one of my favorites!!! After last night I want Chuck to be renewed more then ever...Please season 5 for Chuck!!!!
SAVE CHUCK. LOVED IT and To counter Amber. You may call it a love fest but its the best ratings wise show on a monday for NBC. Not that we have massive ratings but they're mostly consistent.
It really hurts to hear people criticize Chuck, although the arguments are not entirely incorrect. But, they weren't entirely accurate either. =) This episode wasn't as good as the last one. Also, the way that Vivian learned the truth about her father was quite odd. Also, it remains unclear about how much she knows about Agent X. I don't think she could quite absorb all the information and that Chuck had rambled to her. Lastly about Sarah, I am sure that she isn't going to die. (I think so) Which makes it inconsistent with the previous kills, using that Norseman device, which took less than a minute to take someone's life. And I do agree with Dan that we thirst for more Morgan's moments. And honestly, even though I adore Chuck, but his emotions? Not really a fan. But well, that's him. Okay, those are the things that I don't quite love about the episode. But I still love Chuck and I don't want it to be cancelled. =) Great review btw Dan. p/s: I think you should've mentioned more about Casey protecting Morgan. It's so much more than just that because Casey also does that for Alex, which puts him quite in the similar position as Mama Bartowski. And it's sweet. =)
This show has gotten really lame. It was incredibly interesting when it focused on the techy stuff. But the writers must have thought they could do better than the technical consultants they had for the show and shut them out. I think canceling this show is the best thing for Monday nights.
If I hear one more thing about Chuck's feelings, I'm gonna hurl. Plus, I'm tired of seeing Col. John Casey's character emasculated. Why does he have to play second fiddle to Chuck's ability to screw things up.
NBC, there is better work being done on less expensive shows to produce. Please find something better to put in Chuck's place. You might even sell the show to the Lifetime Network and get back lost revenue. You only have precious few prime time hours. Why waste it on this love fest?
LOVE LOVE LOVE CHUCK! I hope they bring the season back. LOVED ALL THE STAR WARS references throughout the show.
Watching the ending made me cry as well! This show is why I look forward to Monday nights.


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Is this the official changing of the guard from jk2014 to Brian H for the night shift?
I think 32K is more likely by 12:00.
31, 308 @ 10:13pm pdt
Almost 18,000 today.
I signed it at about #300. My wife signed a few minutes ago. Working on others too.
Looks like this may make it to 10k in time at this rate. Exciting!
Sorry, I ment 100k.
@Brian H 18,000 today? Spectacular...I remember when I signed it at 8,000 thinking it would never reach 100k in another week. at that rate it'll make it for sure.
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Just took over the #28 spot. Nearly 18k day as Brian h said! Fantastic work by a lot of great people signing out there! Se thing tomorrow!!
While you were sleeping
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Now #26!
In terms of current, "incomplete" petition drives, #2, behind the Ban Teaching Creationism (38,522).
Even if 100k goal is not met I recommend cutting and pasting the result to emails to your own state and federal senators and reps.
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33,203 @ 08:00 = 400/h now = 68.000 in 7 days. Makes a total of 101.500 in 7 days
Just hit Top 25 petitions of the year! Keep em coming!!!
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#24 now! Picking up the pace too!
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OK, Elon Musk just twittered about the petition.
Let's get it rocketing sky high !!
Musk just tweeted to support the petition.
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@AtlantaCourier that will seriously help out, he has twice the followers that the petition needs. I'm surprised that he and the Facebook page took so long to comment on it, since there's only less than a week left at this point.
So, after his tweet, we got 500 votes in the first 15 min.
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35,339 @10:55!
It has made it onto Mashable: http://mashable.com/2013/06/27/tesla-petition/
± 35,500 @ 11:00. Steady at 500 votes / 15 min.
End of Story. Sorry N.A.D.A. 100K by the end of the day! Obama to mandate Tesla and cancel ICE. You can't stuff Tesla back in the box any more than you could ban the Internet.
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So, I haven't had a chance to sew recently - and it's starting to eat me up. I've been getting a lot of writing done - trying to maintain a 3,000 word a day word count. And, I just had to move and don't have a huge workroom solely dedicated to fabric and quilting... but, I know that most people don't have that, so I'll stop whining.
My boss has asked me to make her recently deceased mother's dress into a bed runner. As with any project that I don't think up myself, I'm frozen. I completely and totally overthink these things. Then after months of having complicated patterns running through my head, I end up doing something simple and it works out. It's time for me to do the simple thing and stop procrastinating. I'm thinking of just making stripes with the wool of the dress and an off-white cotton and then hand appliquéing the ornate pieces onto the off-white somehow. If anyone has any ideas - I'd love to hear them.
Also, I would like to thank everyone who has purchased my simple little layer cake pattern! I now have the third highest selling quilt pattern on Craftsy! At $2 a pop, it's raking in much more pride and gratefulness than money - but there are times when satisfaction is more important than money. Thank you all so very much!
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Tangled Up in Blues
I have always feared blues... not blues as in sadness, the actual color. Matching blues is all hard and stuff. There are so many different undertones and shades that finding complimentary blues is a headache. But, I decided to confront my fears and designed a throw that would incorporate five different blues.
I was getting ready to take a hand appliqué class at my local quilt shop, so I came up with this quilt and went in for fabric help. Usually I can stand in the doorway of a fabric shop, scan, and see exactly what I need (and then I buy an extra $100 worth... because obviously I'm going to need it later), but since blues were involved, I asked the nice ladies for help.
I should stop here and say that I've been in quilt shops that have treated me like dirt. Being a guy who quilts has given me a pretty good taste of what women have had to deal with when they take their cars to less than enlightened mechanics. However, the women at Cambridge Quilt Shop have always been wonderful.
I found five great blues and a very black black for the appliqué. Then the appliqué class was canceled because I was the only one who signed up. I could have just learned it from youtube but I was annoyed enough that I just set the project aside for a while (read that as "about a year").
By the time I got back around to it, I had already made a few patterns to sell and realized that the 32 pages it would take to make the appliqué pattern probably wouldn't fly. I also realized that a bed quilt pattern would sell better than a throw, so I ditched part of my original design and increased the size to make it a double quilt.
I was getting ready to take a hand appliqué class at my local quilt shop, so I came up with this quilt and went in for fabric help. Usually I can stand in the doorway of a fabric shop, scan, and see exactly what I need (and then I buy an extra $100 worth... because obviously I'm going to need it later), but since blues were involved, I asked the nice ladies for help.
I should stop here and say that I've been in quilt shops that have treated me like dirt. Being a guy who quilts has given me a pretty good taste of what women have had to deal with when they take their cars to less than enlightened mechanics. However, the women at Cambridge Quilt Shop have always been wonderful.
I found five great blues and a very black black for the appliqué. Then the appliqué class was canceled because I was the only one who signed up. I could have just learned it from youtube but I was annoyed enough that I just set the project aside for a while (read that as "about a year").
By the time I got back around to it, I had already made a few patterns to sell and realized that the 32 pages it would take to make the appliqué pattern probably wouldn't fly. I also realized that a bed quilt pattern would sell better than a throw, so I ditched part of my original design and increased the size to make it a double quilt.
Since I bought quite a few cones of white thread at my last quilt show, I went ahead and did heavy quilting in all of the white areas. And, apparently my recent aversion to borders also applies to bindings because the only way I could see this was with a white binding. I didn't want the pattern to be blocked in, but to look like it goes on and on.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Diaries: Aug/Nov 1911 - Pickin' Cotton
This summer has been a very uneventful one in my life. There has but very few things happened of any importance or out of the ordinary. I get tired some times of the daily routine of keeping house and long for a whole summer of vacation and rest.
I had planned all winter to go on a visit to my Uncle's this summer but won't get to go.
One of the Granbury College boys -Claude W.- came to see me the first Sunday in August (Aug 6) He came on Sat eve and we all went to a neighbors house that night and made ice cream. We had a delightful time while he was here talking about old school days. And w-e-ll - that wasn't all we talked about either, cause we decided we would marry some of these times and set that some time for next June.
I've been engaged lots of times before, but it never did mean anything to me for I didn't really aim to marry and would set the time so far off that I thought we would quit before the time came.
I've never really loved but one boy before. But there is one other boy in this old wide world that I really did love, and do love yet, and always will love I guess. He was my first real Sweet Heart. He began going with me when I was fifteen and the last time I saw him I was eighteen. He thought equally as much of me as I did of him.
I don't guess there ever will be a boy care any more for me than he did for he has proved in numberless of different ways the true love he had in his heart for me. The last time I heard from him was the first of last May about 4 months ago now. We won't marry because Papa is so bitterly opposed to it and I guess he isn't just the boy that would suit me best, but he won my first love and I'll always have a great regard for him.
I never will forget the night he first ask me to marry him. We went to preaching about three miles from home us and some other couples. I wore a blue lilly in my hair that night and I still have it yet. I have him my hand on it that I would marry him. I was fifteen and he was eighteen then. Yes I know we were quite young. Well I'm getting of off the subject I started on but I couldn't be so untrue to my old love as to say I never loved a boy before.
But there has a new love come into my life and as the days go by I am tending to forget the old S.H.
I think Claude is a grand old boy and I think as much or more, of him as I ever did of anyone. I am now wearing his ring as a token of our love and engagement and intend to marry him when the time comes.
Claude did so cute when he went to tell me good bye it made me care more for him. He took my hand and holding it he looked me straight in the face and said; "I hate so bad to leave you. I want you to be good to your self and write to me often." He looked so deeply in earnest it made me love him better.
He wore a rainbow colored tie one day while he was here that I have him for a birthday present and when he came I had on a stick pin that he had given me as an xmas gift. (
August 21, 1911)
Mr Thompson came down on the evening train Sunday evening (Sept 10) and spent the evening and till late bed time with me and then went back home on the night train. I never had gone to the station to meet him when he came in, and at the picnic he said he guessed if I lived just across the street from the depot I wouldn't step over then to meet him, and I told him the next time he came I would go to meet him.
So when he wrote me he was coming he reminded me of my promise to meet him. There was no one at home but Papa and me and he was fevering some. I went to meet him and there sure was a crowd at the depot as there usually is on Sunday. We had a very enjoyable time. We walked down to the church which is just a few yards from our house, to the young peoples League at 4 oclock as I was on the program to read a paper on "How should we exercise our spiritual lives." Sunday night we went to preaching at the Baptist church as there was not going to be any preaching at the Methodist church. By the way he is a strong Baptist. I always have more Baptist fellows than Methodist any way. Bro has been gone to Evandale to Uncle Ladells for a few weeks, he will spend the fall there picking cotton with them. Grandma has also been to <Erath Co> on a visit, so I've been by myself quite a good deal lately as Papa isn't at home much in day time. (
Sept 13, 1911)
I felt real lonesome when I started to leave and they all seemed to hate to see me leave. I've heard lots of good things that they've said about me. I felt flattered a little when I first came down here, I heard of so many nice compliments passed on me. I am vain enough, like the most of humanity, to like to hear all the good things said about me.
I've picked cotton about three weeks for a Mr Bud Burgess and enjoyed my stay there too. Mrs Burgess gave me a real pretty Geranium plant it is in bloom now. I don't guess there is any one that likes flowers better than I do.
I'm having a nice time on my cotton picking "spree" and it is the first I have picked in about four years and the last I guess I'll pick in a good while. (
Oct 18,1911)
Friday, June 13, 2014
Diary May/ July 1911: a right smart of damage
We moved from Duster back near DeLeon last Monday, and my! What a week of work this has been (this is Sat)
I'm so sore from head to foot I can't hardly move. The 11th of last month was my 20th birthday. Grandma surprised me by giving me a quilt top, I'de been wishing for pieced out of <colars>. It's the prarie flower design and is real pretty. One of the boys sent me a pair of white silk elbow gloves. Those were the most important things I got. (
6, 1911)
Last Friday a week ago June 16, we had a pretty bad storm and hail. The old settlers said that it is the worst that has been here in several years. I guess it lasted for at least an hour, raining in almost a torrant all that time.
Our old cellar wasn't very good any way so it couldn't resist such hard rain, and the water ran in at the door. We stayed in there till the water was nearly knee deep - Papa, Grandma, and me. Bro was away from home. We got out of the cellar and as we came in the house at the back, the front door blew down. Papa caught it and put it back in place and we held it there till the storm was over. It wasn't easy to hold either with the wind against it. We thought every minute that the house would go the next and it would have I guess if we hadn't held the door up. From some cause or another we didn't seem to be much frightened. We went on the plan that we had as well laugh as to cry, so we talked and laughed about it all during the storm. I was really surprised at my self at not getting frightened our of my wits. After the storm was over almost every thing in the house was wet as the water leaked and blowed in so in places. Several pictures blowed down and the stove pipe blowed down inside and out. Things were us set generally but no serious damage done.
We got off lighter than most of our neighbors as some of their houses blowed off of the blocks some wind mills blowed down and a right smart of damage done.
The crops through here were almost completely destroyed. There was nothing but <strins> left of the cotton where it wasn't completely washed away. But that's enough about the storm.
To day was 22 years ago Papa was at a State Teachers Association at
Papa taught ten years before he married. He began teaching when he was 18
years old. ( Galveston June 25,
Last Wednesday and Thursday, June 28 and 29th - There was a big picnic and prohabition rally at DeLeon. There was hundreds of people here and every body seemed to enjoy them selves.
There was a farris wheel, merry-go-round, a fine band from Walnut Springs and all kinds of stands most on the ground. We had about three speeches a day, all on prohabition. They were sure fine too.
Mr Thompson from
came down on Thurs and we had a nice
time. We stayed on the picnic grounds Thurs night till after eleven oclock and
they hadn't broken up then. That is the first time he has been down to see me
since last summer. To day is a year ago I was at the Carlton S.
Normal at and went to Ft.
Worth .
( lake Como July 3, 1911)
The Methodist protracted meeting has been going on for two weeks, and Sunday evening July 23rd Bro Bickley, our pastor, preached to the men and boys at the Tabernacle and Bro Sherrod, the Baptist pastor, preached to the ladies and girls at the baptist church. Every one seemed to enjoy the sermon so much. He preached about knowing God and being well aquainted with him. He spoke of some people having the summer religion, and then he talked of the great influence young ladies have over young men. He dwelt on young people so often spending their energy on frivolous worldly things, and of what a power they could be for God if they would. He said a Christian aught to spend at least one hour a day in reading the Bible and prayer.
I began to realize as I never did before the importance of a person having a set time to read and pray every day, in order to be a true Christian all the year round. I resolved while he was reaching that from then on, every day of my life I would spend at least an hour a day in prayer and reading the Bible and other good religious books. (
July 24, 1911)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Diaries Dec 1910/April 1911: Men were quite pushy, even then.
I have to admit that the last entry made me feel a twinge of guilt about doing this little project - but her concern elicited sympathy and understanding (from me anyway) and I didn't see anything she needed to be embarrassed about. Like I said earlier, her mother had passed, her grandmother was getting up there in years, and she had to pick up a lot of the slack. I can't blame her for wanting a way out every now and then.
I refrain most of the time from wrighting about the little troubles and difficulties, I have to meet with all along. But it seems to me they are many. Life is such a struggle it seems like some times. And then things you work so hard at and are so anxious about are so often failures. It is sure hard on a girl to keep things straight at home when she is the only on to do. When I came home they had been moved to the community where Papa and I were going to teach school; several days and the house is just an old thing with three rooms and not sealed over head. The rooms had been papered with news paper and they were soiled and torn up badly but this was the only house vacant. Well there hadn't been any body to straighten things up much after moving, as Grandma wasn't able and Papa was studying for examination and didn't have time. So the rooms were to paper and scour and the pictures to put up, books to unpack and arrange in the bookcase and straightening generally to do. Well I've been at work the hardest kind for about two weeks, and am about to get things looking decent at least. (
Dec 12, 1910)
I spent my first day in the school room teaching
Jan 2,
1911. I'll not forget soon. how cold it was that day either, I
had been looking forward to the time when I could begin teaching for quite a
while. I have had a very nice time so far, as I haven't had the least bit of
trouble. But teaching is sure tiresome. I have enrolled 31 up to date. ( Jan 14, 1911)
Today is the first day of Feb. I made our my first monthly report and as teachers have to swear to their reports Papa and I went down to the <P.G.> with them this evening and was sworn. That was the first time ever was sworn about anything. That finished up my first months teaching.
We've been reading a continued story (not a love story) in the "Youth's Companion" and we got the paper that continued the last chapter of it today. The title of the story was "Five Miles Out," and it sure was fine. Papa enjoyed it as much as we did. He read the last chapter aloud this evening the first thing he did when he got back from school. He very often reads the continued stories in the Youth Companion and he always enjoys them as they are usually fine. This last on thoe I believe is the best we have had. (
Feb 1, 1911)
To day was such a lovely day; the birds have been singing, the sunshine is so warm and every thing seems to say Spring has come. Our co superintendent was at our school to day and he made the pupils a nice talk. In the evening I had the exam for the fourth grade and that sure is tiresome on a teacher. I came home almost too tired to move. I'm always glad when Fri evening comes for that means too days of rest. Or at least it means too days out of the school room but I usually have enough work at home to do to keep me busy. (
March 3,
I have hung another picture in the picture gallery of my mind, and have enrolled another name to my list of "Fellows" or Sweet Hearts which ever you would rather call it. The name is Homer Ross. He is just a boy two years my junior. He is only 18 years old. He is a little taller than myself, has light hair, gray eyes and is light complected. Homer is the first by to go with me younger than myself. He has been with me every Sunday for the last three Sunday's. Last Sunday he tried to get me to kiss him good bye and said he wouldn't have a girl who wouldn't kiss him before they married. He kept begging me to kiss him and finally he said "Well if you don't think enough of me to kiss me good bye, we had as well quit," and I told him alright. He talked on a while and then said, "no I don't want you to kiss me now, I was just trying you to see if you would." I've had boys try to get me to kiss them good bye "To prove my love" but I don't prove my love that way. We went to Turkey Creek yesterday evening to singing and had a very nice time but when we got home they were just coming out of the dining room and we had missed our supper but we went in and ate some any way and when we got through I washed the dishes and he dried them. (
April 10, 1911)
I guess I'm supposed to tell this old diary every thing that happens in my life, of any importance but often I'm just a little bashful, for fear some one else will know it besides my dear old diary some time.
Occasionally when some thing comes up at home that I don't like (I don't mean just any little thing) I will (to myself) declare I will marry the next chance I get. Well one of those times came when a while back when Papa mentioned his intentions of moving back to DeLeon soon. That was on Saturday and I thought to my self; "I'll marry the next chance I get and quit moving so much."
The next day one of my fellows came to see me and actually proposed to me. So I told myself; "Now here is your chance if you want to marry and try a new life." but I was over my vexation of the day before and couldn't think of marrying then. And that's the way I usually am (April 1911)
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Diary Nov 1910: a girl can't have two or three real sweethearts at once
Granbury Texas We (dormitory girls) always look forward to the Literary Society night with a great deal of pleasure, as they let us have a few minutes social after the society and we are allowed to talk to the boys a while. Last night when my chum and myself went in two of the boys came around and sit down by us and stayed all during the society. We were a little afraid we would get a scolding, but we didn't. It was real funny three of us girls were in the parlor playing on the piano and singing and one of the dormitory boys came in. He hadn't been in there long till we thought we heard one of the teachers step up on the front gallery. The young man hid behind the piano and sure enough it was Prof Russel. After a while us girls went to our rooms and turned out the light in the parlor and hall so he could slip out with out the teacher seeing him. We have lots of fun at our meanness once in a while but some of the other girls have gotten into trouble occasionally too. But fortunately for my room mate and me we have escaped so far. (
Nov 22, 1910)
is one thing sure a girl can't have two or three real sweethearts at once,
especially if they all live in the same community. I've been receiving and
returning a little attention to three different boys here at school. Not real
sweet hearts of course but just to have a nice time and I find it causes me
more real trouble than any thing else. It wasn't so much trouble till this
week, but as I'm going home Saturday each one tries to talk to me every good
chance he gets, not so much, I guess because he likes me so well but to spite
the other fellow. Now at the literary society one of them was there talking to
me and another one came up and spoke and began to talk too, and after a while
the other one happened by and spoke. Well well they were all three there talking
to the crowd as there was several of us standing there talking. But I tried to
stand so I wouldn't have my back to any of them and I was perfectly miserable. Texas
To day as one of the girls and myself were going up to the college at noon there was five or six boys standing on the gallery and one of them came running to meet us, for meanness and said; Cland and Charlie were quarrelling about me and he told them he would tell me to speak to the one I liked best. Oh I was so mortified I didn't know what to do. I never felt so hateful. I went across that gallery quicker than I had in a good while and didn't even look at any of them. The boys were just talking in fun and didn't think about that silly boy telling me what he said he would. But it sure did make me feel bad the rest of the evening and showed me how silly it was to pay attention to more than one. (
Nov 22, 1910)
I came home from
on Nov 26. We had a nice time there on Thanksgiving (Nov 24). We had a nice
dinner at the dormitory and a few friends were invited to take dinner with us.
Our president suspended the rules that day and we went to services at the
church in the morning and walked around in the evening. My room mate and my
self and our beaus stayed together almost all evening. One of the preacher boys
going to school there (Ozier Hightower) was with me. I think he is simply the
finest young man out. You can draw from his conversations that he has such high
ideals and ambitions. We had several Kodaks taken during the after . The next day, in the evening
before I was to start home in the night, so many of the students came around to
tell me good bye, and wish me well, and saying they would miss me so much, it
made me real lonesome. I thought a great deal of all of the students going
there. You sure do miss school mates after leaving school. I hated to stop to
teach so bad, but my school was soon to begin and I had to stop. ( Granbury College Nov 29, 1910)
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Diary Oct/Nov 1910: train tracks and beaus
So Prof Russel and the girls all came in and we that knew it were so tickled we couldn't keep quiet. Finally, the Prof and the rest of the girls begin to ask us what we were so tickled about. Some said they didn't see any thing to laugh at, but finally we got quiet without having to tell. After the prayer meeting was over and the Prof gone, Jeff came out of the pantry amid a room of laughter and declared that was the longest 15 minutes he ever saw pass. (
Oct 6, 1910)
young man, Mr Parrell, who is here leading sing for the protracted meeting was
at the college to day and made the school a talk at chapel. He was very
handsome and well educated and sure did make a good talk. He said he had the
greatest admiration for a boy that could not go to school other wise who would
work their way through. He had worked his way through. He took an A.M. degree
from the Texas and then spent 4 years in a
medical school. Now he say's he is just beginning to see how ignorant he is. He
said a man had better spend thirty nine years in preparation for life and then,
just live one, than spend one year in preparation and live 39. ( Chicago University Oct 13, 1910)
A crowd of us young folks had been planning to go to
; Some small mts
about 8 miles from here. So the matron asked the president if he would suspend
the rules and take us and he said he would as it would be Haloween. So we got
up early yesterday morning to cook our dinner to take with us. There was 20 of
us in all that went, counting the Matron, the President, and a married man that
keeps the dormitory and his wife. The boy's hired a common size waggon and put
some hay in it and we all gor started by 10 oclock. My! How we wee packed, and
jammed, and crammed in that waggon for there was 15 rode in it. We sure did
have the fun thoe and by the time we got there it was dinner time so we spread
our dinner and ate the first thing. Comanche
We had a Kodak along and we took a view of the dinner spread on the table cloth and us sitting around it. After dinner we all went up on one of the peaks and had some Kodaks made.
A we were coming back, the boy that was with me and myself played "Hull Gull" and "Even or Odd" with cedar balls. Nearly all of us girls were sunburned or blistered by the time we got home. But we sure did have a nice day of it. Yes and last Sat night a crowd of young folks gathered here at the Dormitory and made candy and when we got through with the candy we gathered in the parlor and had some music. We sure had a nice time that night. But such times as these don't come to us very often while we are in college. (
Nov 1, 1910)
Granbury Texas Last Sunday was my last Sunday here so I was wishing we could have a nice time, but my roommate and I came up to our room after dinner Sunday, without any hopes for any thing but a long lonesome Sunday evening.
As we usually have to come up to our rooms and sit around all evening on Sundays that is the time we get homesick and lonesome.
So we came in and my roommate (Eva Crews) went to wrighting and I fell over across the bed to try to sleep. In a few minutes Mrs Kidd came in and said she wished we could walk over to the reunion grounds. So we decided to ask our matron if she wouldn't let us go with Mrs Kidd and she said we could. We hadn't been over there very long till two of the dormitory boys came over there. All the other girls just happened to have company and we saw them leave the dormitory going walking.
So the boys went with us and we walked about a mile to the railroad trussel across the river. We decided, after the boys insisting, that we would walk the trussel as far as the edge of the water anyway, which was about 50 yards. Us girls were scared of course but as the boys held our arms we walked very well. One of the couples stopped before we got to the edge of the water and started back, but we said we wouldn't "Pike" so we went on and just as we got to the water's edge we heard a train whistle in the distance.
There we were out in the middle of that trussel and it was so far from the ground to jump off would near sure death.
It sure did scare us as there was no way to get off the track till we got to the end of the trussel and we didn't know wheather we could walk it or not before the train came along. But we started back walking as fast as we could and every body began to hollow to us to hurry and get of the train was coming. The more they would hollow the worse we got scared till finally when we did step off on the ground I was trembling, I was so frightened. We had just gotten off a few minutes when the train came dashing along.
The next day at the dinner table they were trying to tease us about it. One of the boys began it by saying; "If I hadn't been for Claud helping her off the trussel, Miss Wheeler wouldn't be with us to day." They kept making up things and telling till we all laughed till we couldn't. But it wasn't funny to any of them while we were on the trussel.
We sure did have a nice time that evening if we did get into danger. As we came on home we had to pass by a negro church as they were having services, two couples of us stopped in there a while and that was a sight to us too. Of course the President scolded us a little for the rules were not suspended, and we were not supposed to have company unless they were. But as our Matron is a young woman she and one of the teachers was with us and every dormitory girl had a beau. (
Nov 21, 1910)
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And that puts China on track to meets its goal of 7.5% GDP growth this year, Citigroup economist Ding Shuang told the WSJ earlier today.
But Shuang, as well as other economists caution about a worrisome trend. Sun-indicies that track new orders, new exports and imports weakened in October, which suggests that production is getting ahead of demand.
Pressure is rising on China to show that it can maintain a recent stabilization of economic growth after a worrying slowdown in the first half of the year.
PMI figures for October rose across Asia.
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China manufacturing and services data offered more signs of a stabilizing economy–albeit the improvement is modest at best. Separately, Bloomberg's Zhou Xin reports that economists it polled think China may maintain it sannual economic growth target of 7.5% next year as a signal the new leadership won't settle for a bigger slowdown.
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