Two Random Thoughts

Ode to people with great ideas and the ability to do something about them (engineers in this case:
I was just driving home from the library and in front of me was a big manly truck (the make and model I don't know) with an interesting device in the back. It was a wheelchair on some sort of lever raising and lowering device. I wondered if it was being transported somewhere...it kind of resembled the raising and lowering things there are at public pools. I glanced down at the licence plate and saw that it had the little wheelchair sign to indicate a driver with a disability. (P.S. All of this happened with a minute window of time.) It appeared to be then that this device raised the wheelchair out of the truck and lowered it at the driver's door. Wow! Maybe I'm the last one to see a device like this but wow! How amazing. The man driving that truck can be completely self-sufficient...what a great invention!

If reports in school had always been this interesting:
Same drive home, I'm listening to the sound track to Aida (if you don't know the play I recommend viewing it next time you get a chance...I saw it at one of the amazing high school performances here in Utah...talented kids wow!). Low and behold I make a text to text connection. Amneris, a character from the play, reminds me a lot of the character Glinda from Wicked. Can I just say, the thoughts that just ran through my head during the last 5 minutes of my travel would be easy material for any one of the many compare and contrast papers that were done during my high school and college years and it wasn't even an effort...it was fun because the material "studied" is stuff I enjoy!!! I will now point out the similarities I found and in both plays and if you have not seen one or either of them, go see them and then get back to me. This is mostly for my enjoyment...a quick write that I'm not assigned to do! Woot woot!!!
Compared information will be given in the order of that which comes from Aida and then Wicked

Both women sing pretty ridiculous songs depicting how superficial they are!
My Strongest Suit and Popular


Both women are jilted by the man "engaged" to them who then falls in love with the main female character, who happens to be a close friend or confidant and who is considered the inferior of the two women in the rankings or social classes established in the play.
Radames off with Aida, Fiyero off with Elfaba


Both women end in a powerful situation after the lovers have left the scene (in various ways), and become strong women of power who change their communities for good.


Both groups of women sing or have part in a song with a, "He loves me...no wait he loves you!" song.
Not Me and I'm Not That Girl


Both stories have an idealized place where people have come from or hope to go in which their problems would be erased.
Nubia and The Emerald City


The pointed differences between the vying cultures are marked by color.
White Egyptians vs. black Nubians, and blond Glinda vs. green Elphaba.


Even their covers have similarities...two contrasting and somewhat overlapping faces (again emphasizing the color difference).




Anyway, random thoughts by me! Don't give me a grade...it was a quick but fun thing!