I haven't posted anything on here since FEBRUARY?!?! That is absolutely unacceptable. I feel like a lot has happened since February.... It's April now, so that's, um, three months? It's almost May now.
Blah blah okay so here I am to update the whole world on my super exciting life. Haha. Exciting. Yeah, okay.
I am currently in a coffee shop drinking coffee (duh) and eating an AMAZING blueberry scone. I came here to write an essay but, let's face it, blogging is way more important.
So speaking of school, how is it going, you ask? It is going FANTASTIC. I love all of my classes so much. American Nature Writers with Dave Sumner is probably my favorite. I never thought that nature writing was something I would be particularly interested in, but Sumner has changed that. While Thoreau is probably the most renown nature writer, he is not...really...my favorite. That title is award to the one and only Annie Dillard, who wrote Pilgrim at Tinker Creek which is absolutely amazing, every single word and sentence is perfectly chosen and placed and, while she is catholic, she brings in philosophy as well as religion to expand meaning and it just blows my mind. She is brilliant. And as for my professor, I have no doubt in my mind that he is one of the greatest teachers I have ever had in all of my years as a student. He is incredibly intelligent, friendly, welcoming, and not bad looking to top it all off. It's not fair for one human being to be so...perfect. I'm so grateful that he is my teacher, and I tell everyone who isn't an English major to take a class with him if they have the chance. Everyone needs to experience being taught by this man. AND I'm taking a class with him next semester too! I just could not justify not taking another class taught by him. Who cares about taking the classes I need to fulfill my major?! Not me!
Another favorite class is Philosophy of the East and West with Jesus! He has a last name, but everyone calls him Jesus. (That's Hey-Zeus, not Gee-Sus.) This class is very interesting, but it's definitely Jesus that makes me love it. He is so full of energy and fun and has the thickest Spanish accent, most of the time I cannot even understand what he's saying. But I talk to him a lot outside of class and I have kind of proven myself as an intelligent human being so he pretty much loves me. In fact, earlier this week, this marine biologist/neuroscientist/philosopher came to school to talk about his Blue Marble project thing and there was a special lunch for six Philosophy students (either Philosophy majors or minors, or English/Philosophy double majors) and little ole me! I felt so special! And I got to know some of the people I see around the English/Philosophy department all the time. Unfortunately most of them are seniors so if I get to know them any more, I won't know them after this year. But that's ok.
My other classes, French and History II, are also going well. French is pretty boring but I get A's on everything (knock on wood) so it's pretty stress-free. History can be pretty grueling, but we're reading quite a few novels this semester, and those happen to be my forte. And I got a B on a paper that I was sure I was going to get a C or a D on. I'm still not sure how that happened.
As for my personal life... Ugh. I still don't have very many friends, but I have been talking to people a lot more. And I was in a relationship with someone but that has since ended. And I was upset at first...but I've surprisingly gotten over it for the most part. The only times I'm really sad about it is when I first wake up in the morning and remember all over again everything that happened. That sucks, but once I get up and start my day I feel so much better. And, I was thinking about it today, I honestly feel like I'm better off. The whole time I was constantly stressing about this stupid relationship, and now it's like a huge weight has lifted off my shoulders. I feel so much lighter, so much happier. I'm glad this happened when it did because now I'll be completely free to devote myself to school and finals. THANK GOD.
Let's see, what else... OH I KNOW. I have registered for classes and housing for next semester and I got EVERYTHING I WANTED. My classes are:
Intro to Creative Writing (with Kensie!!)
War and Literature (with Sumner!)
American Politics
Intro to Psychology
I don't have any classes on fridays and my earliest class is at 10:05! I am so totally stoked. As for housing, I'm going to be living in an apartment! An on campus one, but the on campus apartments are really adorable and so convenient. I wanted to live in the Greens, which are the closest to every single one of my classes next semester. In order to register for housing, you have to have enough people to fill the room or apartment, and I had NO ONE to live with and I wanted to live in a double so I was freaking out, but thankfully there is a facebook page for finding roommates, and someone messaged me saying they would love to live in the Greens. And she's a senior now but she needs one more semester for student teaching so she has a ton of credits and priority for housing is determined by credits so we were pretty much guaranteed what we wanted, and we got it! And she is super nice and I think we're going to get along well.
Everything in my life is just fine right now. I am happy.
(knock on wood)
