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I may become a one-woman equality voice in this class.
For gender and history and society and religion.

I wonder if that is going to get me in trouble, since this book is hard slanted in first chapter even. I never was good with standing by silent during grandstanding, extremism or white-washing.

( On With the Class work )

Day 04 - What you ate today, in great detailI'm not amazingly impressed with this one. Today wasn't either a very normal or exciting day food wise ( Read more... )

"Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth."

-- Azar Nafisi, pg. 1, Reading Lolita in Tehran

As today was the first day of fall semester for the university, I dropped in to visit with my teachers and update them.

( The good, the bad and the ugly )