Friday, January 14, 2005

"She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." On iTunes: "Swan Dive" Sister Hazel My Fiction Technique class may be the best class I have ever taken. Dr. Corey is hysterical, and the discussions we've been having about the stories so far are amazing. I absolutely love talking about stories this way, and being in this class is like a 50 minute orgasm every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Flannery O'Conner is also quickly becoming one of my favorite short story authors. She takes these typical, cliche characters of the type of people you love to hate and then pierces straight through them and gets to the real matter - that in every single one of these characters, there's an aspect our ourselves. Especially in her story Revelation (which we discussed today) - the revelation is for both the character Mrs. Turpin and the reader himself. O'Conner is just fucking amazing. My allergies have been acting up lately, and it's a problem. I can't concentrate when I have to blow my nose every five minutes. It's absolutely awful. So I'm thinking that it's time to get on some kind of medication.. at least while I'm living here (because it doesn't look like I'll be able to get out of this room). Does anybody know of any good allergy medicine that I can get over the counter? And, as Tori has so aptly said before me, today is Friday, hallelujah. I have plans to go shopping some time this weekend, and that excites me. It's also gotten cold, so I'll be looking for cute sweaters. And maybe shoes. And purses. Not that I need to buy more of these things, but damn it, I want to. And financial aid hits today anyway. Tonight, I'm also going to be playing some intramural soccer, so that should be pretty cool. Hopefully everybody else isn't crazy competitive and everybody is out there just to have fun... because I don't really care if we win or not, heh. Of course, I say this now, but we'll see what happens when I get out there. ^_~ The posts in Paranoia so far have been excellent. I'm really pleased and I think that this is going to be a blast, especially with all the different characters. We have our own little melting pot. Also, don't forget about Shy's Nifty Fifty and the latest editions to hero. Chaos also has an awesome Dragonball RPG up in the Inn which I've been giggling over like a fangirl. Obviously, there's a ridiculous amount of awesome stuff going on in the Arena right now so you should all go check it out. ^_^

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