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Today (yesterday?) was my first day of classes. I thought I would report. I feel extremely positive about this semester. Actually, that's not true. I feel extremely positive about me, my life. Today (yesterday) I had Intermediate Spanish; 19thc American literature: Race, Culture and Nation; Mathematical thinking. Tomorrow I have Mathematical Thinking, Modernism, and History and Memory in Nazi Germany. I am not registered yet for Modernism or 19thc lit. If people don't drop, the profs will just add me. I already spoke to them about this.
We are reading just 2 novels in 19thc lit: Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockton Brown. The latter was not in the bookstore which concerns me as we start discussing it on Friday. In Modernism we are reading: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; A Passage to India by E.M. Forester; Nightwood by Djuna Barnes; and The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West.
Spanish already intimidates me liek whoa. I know I'll need to study my butt off, and I tend to have difficulty doing that for an entire semester. Or month. Or week. I feel confident about everything else so far though.
In 19thc lit the prof handed out a questionaire and one of them was "Who is your favorite American writer and why?" She did not provide enough space or time for me to adequately answer this question, but I did my best. I could have written "too many to pick" but that's such a cop-out, because obviously she wanted to get a feel for what we're drawn to and why, that sort of thing. So I wrote about Vonnegut, how he appeals to my sensibilities, is a geniues, etc. but I also talked about how I believe Vonnegut is a sort of American hero, in the same vein as Hunter S Thompson, because they are extremely critical but at the same time they have hope, they have a certain optimism, it's obvious they love America and believe that we as a nation are capable of great things. related side note: I'm reading Fear and Loathing in America. Oh, Hunter S Thompson, I have such a literary crush on you.
(discussing my Nazi Germany class with Adri. nota bene: she's not a rascist.)
me: i can't remember the last time i wanted to take a class this badly. i hope it doesn't suck. i hope we get a paper
Adri: youre such a geek :-)
me: because i love learning about nazis?
Adri: yes
me: sounds like the pot calling the kettle afro-american, sweetheart
Adri: sh
Adri: ill hear not of the negros
We are reading just 2 novels in 19thc lit: Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockton Brown. The latter was not in the bookstore which concerns me as we start discussing it on Friday. In Modernism we are reading: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; A Passage to India by E.M. Forester; Nightwood by Djuna Barnes; and The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West.
Spanish already intimidates me liek whoa. I know I'll need to study my butt off, and I tend to have difficulty doing that for an entire semester. Or month. Or week. I feel confident about everything else so far though.
In 19thc lit the prof handed out a questionaire and one of them was "Who is your favorite American writer and why?" She did not provide enough space or time for me to adequately answer this question, but I did my best. I could have written "too many to pick" but that's such a cop-out, because obviously she wanted to get a feel for what we're drawn to and why, that sort of thing. So I wrote about Vonnegut, how he appeals to my sensibilities, is a geniues, etc. but I also talked about how I believe Vonnegut is a sort of American hero, in the same vein as Hunter S Thompson, because they are extremely critical but at the same time they have hope, they have a certain optimism, it's obvious they love America and believe that we as a nation are capable of great things. related side note: I'm reading Fear and Loathing in America. Oh, Hunter S Thompson, I have such a literary crush on you.
(discussing my Nazi Germany class with Adri. nota bene: she's not a rascist.)
me: i can't remember the last time i wanted to take a class this badly. i hope it doesn't suck. i hope we get a paper
Adri: youre such a geek :-)
me: because i love learning about nazis?
Adri: yes
me: sounds like the pot calling the kettle afro-american, sweetheart
Adri: sh
Adri: ill hear not of the negros