Saint Foucault, the Unassailable
Well, my blog has fallen by the wayside under the weight of a particularly stressful semester. I have two novels and a paper per week in addition to other readings from my classes and sporadic 7-10 pagers. I’m learning a lot, though, and thinking more than I ever have. Hopefully I can keep my gpa up to get into the English honors program. My English professor told me today that they were planning to bump up the gpa requirement for English classes for the honors program to a 3.6. I don’t think I have that right now. Ultimately, I’m doing honors largely to take the seminar on Ulysses that is only open to honors students. For me, that would justify all of the effort I’ve put into keeping up my grades.
Spring break was very relaxing. I did almost no work, which was a great break, but did no favors for me this week as I play catch-up. I sewed a little bit, patching the knees of a pair of my jeans, and making myself a wallet out of upholstery material. I also got started on the staff to go with my Tsukasa costume for the anime convention this year. I’m carving the head out of pink insulation foam, and I got pink dust all of myself and basement. It was crazy. But it’s really starting to look good, even though I have a lot of work left to do on it.
I got an A on my midterm paper in my class on magical realism. I was really proud of this because the professor is crazy and gave me a C- on my first two weekly papers. I might not end up failing that class. I hope, for the sake of my major gpa, that I don’t fail it. We’re currently reading Wild Seed for that class, which is exciting because it’s the only science fiction that we will be reading. Well, it’s sad that we’re not reading more sci-fi, but it’s nice that we get to read one, as that genre is my specialty and, I think, drastically under-read in schools. Maybe I’ll write my honors thesis on sci-fi.
The weather here is phenomenal. It’s currently 72 and sunny. After a spring break that hovered around 21 the whole time, this is practically tropical. Unfortunately, it makes it hard to concentrate on work at a time when I really need to buckle down. Okay, who am I kidding, the whole semester has been “a time when I really need to buckle down.” I can almost never keep up with all of the reading and writing I have to do.
I have my second test for TBS tonight on national officers. I definitely have no idea who any of them are. That’s totally the furthest thing from my mind right now, though. I have to get back into the swing of doing interviews after taking a break this last week. I’m over half way there, but I still have a good thirty left.
Oh! I almost forgot. I got offerend (and am accepting) a job at the theater department’s costume shop sewing starting next fall. I’m so incredibly excited. I’m going to get paid to do something I love and would volunteer to do anyway, and where I will learn skills I want to know which will also be useful to me.
Anyway, I have to go write a philosophy paper. More updates soon, work permitting.
