So I took this grammar diagnostics test for my class, and I learned something very important. I am a punctuation genuis, but I don't know what a sentence is (okay, a little exaggeration). This was frustrating because I don't know where to lay the blame (and someone will be blamed for this): on myself for not actively / independently going out and ( Read more... )

So this year I decided that I would keep track of all the books I read. The main attempt was to read a wide variety of books--some classics, some young adult lit, and so forth. Here is the finished list of 2006 ( Read more... )

Well the holidays for me have been hectic, but awesome. I got a sweet digital camera, and there's even a feature on the camera that allows you to take shitty myspace pictures. That feature I probably won't be using. And OMG Kyle got me an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie ipod shuffle. It's so tiny, but it's so sweet. Now I can join the legions of college ( Read more... )

Last night, Kyle played me some Christmas tunes on the piano. It was so nice. He then proceeded to play the Tetris video game music and this weird trance song. How romantic :-P

I have one exam next Wednesday then *yay* semester completed. It went by fast, as always. This semester was pretty stressless for the most part. Now I have a whole month off. I'm so excited! I'm pretty excited for Xmas and stuff too. It's going to be titties.

I just learned from watching the lame excuse for local news that Sage Library will be closing. I'm pleased that Wirt, Auburn, and Pinconning libraries will stay open. I'm near tears over the fact that the library where I've spent countless hours as a child and student is closing its doors because of an ignorant community. I'm sad too at the thought ( Read more... )

Today in Faulkner class, we held an impromtu testimonial time. In regards to reading "Absalom, Absalom!" The majority of the people in the class (including me) said something along the lines of "Well this novel was damn hard, and at the beginning of the year I didn't like Faulkner, but now I really can be counted into the Faulkner fan club." We ( Read more... )

So I was reading in our school newspaper today about the ever dire straits of education in Michigan. The huge back page article was essentially about the College of Education and how everyone is nervous because there are no education jobs in Michigan. Dollars are down, counts are low, in addition to the fact that Michigan has always churned out ( Read more... )

So I'm taking a break from writing my second essay on Faulkner. It's going fairly good and it's just about finished, but I think it's because it's a Friday night that even I'm getting tired of talking about how women are the scum of the Earth in "Light in August." I wish I had some of those smart Writing Center folks to look this thing over right ( Read more... )

This summer has been fun, but I'm ready to go back to school. There. I said it ( Read more... )