I'm tired of papers. Papers, papers, papers! It never ends!!
Midterms this week and next week: Brit Lit 2, Minority Lit.
Seven weeks until semester is over and then-- A break!
.............. and then another fifteen weeks.
Papers to write:

Tonight: Shakespeare paper. (I finished my Minority lit. presentation earlier.) Due tomorrow.
This week: Poetry ( Read more... )

National Novel Writing Month.

Goal: Within a 30 day period (month of November) write a novel of at least 50,000 words. (Roughly 150 pages [= 5 pages a day])

And I'm gonna do it!  Once I get accepted into the organization! ... But I was invited by my Writing prof. to do it, along with my class. I think I can do it, so what am I going to work on? ... A ( Read more... )

I finished Inheritance of Loss in two days.  Pretty good. The book was good, but it felt never-ending, by the end I wanted more, but ... alas.

I've been working a bit on the Godzilla poem-- I like it. I think I'll submit this as my free verse poem. If I'm right, and I usually am, my class is sick of break up poetry like I am. Who won't love a poem ( Read more... )

If Godzilla Had Roller-skates

he’d be a happier lizard

zipping and gliding down the highway to Tokyo,

admiring the molehill Mt. Fuji along the way.

He’d stop for grilled squid in the Sea of Japan

where overly concerned mothers of castle-builders

call their children back from the waves. Under the stripped umbrellas

as Godzilla has an atomic barbeque, the ( Read more... )