What did I tell myself when I took up LiveJournal again earlier this year? "Brenna, don't let it go dormant for a long time again. You have to update it more regularly for it to be any fun." Well, looks like I failed on that count. It vanished from my mind. I was so busy and facing so many different challenges that I completely forgot about it. Now ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a long time since I've written anything on here--or responded to people's comments. Class has kept me busy. It started back up at the beginning of January. In case I haven't told you, students at my school take only one class at a time. Each semester is divided into four "blocks." Last block I took 20th Century American Literature, ( Read more... )

I'm on Christmas break right now, which means I won't have class for another week. I'm trying to make the best use of all the spare time. So I've started working on my novel, which I haven't had time for in a few months. I'm close to finishing it and would like to get it done before too long.

The only trouble is this: After having set it aside for ( Read more... )

During the summer, I have a lot of fun taking macro pictures of flowers. In the autumn I get photos of the yellow and orange leaves. I often feel that in the winter, everything turns drab--and there's not much to photograph. But that's not really the case. To prove myself wrong, here are some pictures I recently took.


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I'm still in my linguistics class, and last week we talked about language on the computer.  My textbook said that writing on the Internet is somewhere between speech and more "traditional" writing. It also said that on the Internet, grammar and spelling mistakes tend to be ignored. People just do things however the heck they want. Obviously, that's ( Read more... )

At my college, we take one class at a time for a period of about a month each. Right now I'm in a linguistics class called Language and Speech in American Society. I almost didn't take the course, but now I'm really glad I did. I feel like it's the perfect compliment to my English major, which normally focuses on literature. I like learning about ( Read more... )

Alas, I seem to have a never-ending source of pictures from England.  I took so many while I was there, I could post a picture a day for eternity. I will probably be sharing them at random points within the next few years. I want to go back. I keep having dreams that I'm on a plane to London. Next time I go there (and there WILL be a next time), I ( Read more... )

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I used to think that you could sit down, write a story, and have that be the final product. No more ( Read more... )

So I'm taking a creative writing class right now, and our last workshopping session was the funniest ever. This kid had written a story that started off relatively coherent but got progressively wackier. Towards the end, it jumped between topics--one of which was an argument for the legalization of marijuana. The others had to do with hot girls and ( Read more... )