Samara would say(with a huge mischievous grin, of course), "Smile! It confuses people!" That doesn't exactly relate to anything following in this post, but it's one of those lines that plays itself at random moments. Like today.
Poetry Writing is going okay; and I'm definitely keeping my classmates off-balance when it comes to the stuff we share for workshopping. That's kinda fun. And a little frustrating when I don't make something clear enough for them to understand. But the critiquing process can be useful and entertaining. So I can switch from describing a square dance(which is apparently a surprisingly foreign concept to most people?), to a first-person musing of family history and politics narrated by a former wild-child single mother with a colorful vocabulary, to a love poem written four hundred years ago by Shakespeare characters. A middle-aged lady said that my stuff seems like things her dad would enjoy reading; I took that as a huge compliment.
Lit Traditions is scary and intense; American Lit has been going okay, and Shakespeare is always interesting in one way or another.
Parks and Rec and Friday Night Lights are what's been Netflixed recently; and just finished the Back to the Future trilogy on Amazon Prime. Romeo and Juliet is hard to slog through....and so is Octavia Butler's dystopian sci-fi YA novel Parable of the Sower.
Practiced volleyball for a bit earlier this afternoon; it's been a slow weekend, for whatever reason....which is even more frustrating in that I've been trying to be productive. Just kind of spinning the wheels without any real traction. So I've gotten through about a third of another school novel and the first act of Hamlet. Feels like a lot longer ago than two years that we were setting up SWAT's adventures.
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