Hey, everyone. I know that it's been a long time since I've blogged about...well, anything. But truthfully, this is the first time that I've had a little down time to be able to do anything other than homework for my classes. I can say that I can not cross off some books that I've read from my "Books to Read Before I Die" list. I can personally say, that I like Jane Eyre better than some of Jane Austen's books. Which is a great surprise to me since I thought (before I even started reading Jane Eyre) that I wouldn't be able to get through the whole thing without wanting to goudge my eyes out.
Unfortunately, in my Philosophical literature class, I'm currently reading Anna Karenina and that book makes me want to goudge my eyes out. My professor thinks that assigning us 150some pages to read for homework every class period is a good thing. He knows that I'm taking other 300-400 level classes (since he's my professor for two more of them) so I don't know why he can't just make us read 100some pages instead. What really jerks my chain is that the last day that we're reading this book, we onyl have to read 50-70 pages. Why couldn't he have spread it out equally each day? I have no idea.
In one of my other classes, I read Sense & Sensibility and I can honestly say that (after watching the movie for plenty of years) I still hate Willoughby!! It could be that I hate him more since I know guys who were like him, or that his character is just unappealing to me. Either way, it doesn't justify his leading Marianne on, with the intension to seduce her, before dropping her faster than a hot potatoe to marry the girl with 50 thousand pounds who is a jealous bitch. Excuse my language, but it's the honest to God's truth.
Other than school, I can say that I have no complete social life. Today and tomorrow are the only days that I have actual plans to do anything with friends. I'm going shopping with one friend for a dress for another friend's wedding in a few weeks (bad, Katie, bad bad bad!) and tomorrow I'm hosting a good-bye breakfast for another friend who's leaving for bootcamp on Monday. [Man that was a long sentence.] Thankfully, I got some of my homework done so I don't have much to worry about over the weekend.
On a whole and completely different topic, I've had a couple of different story ideas running through my head. I can already hear my cousin saying that I'm already working on another story that she loves and I need to focus my work on that, but I've hit a pretty efficient wall between me and creativity for that story so it's on the back burners. Anyways, the main story that I've been thinking about is from a guys POV (first one that I'm attempting) who ends up in the hospital after a drunk driving accident which causes nerve damage in his legs (meaning he has to relearn how to use his legs). While there, he meets a young woman who's helping out in the children's wing by reading Beauty & the Beast. They bump heads because he's a stuck-up rich guy who doesn't think about anyone but himself while she's the embodiment of everything good (not literally, but I'm going to make her look like a saint). As you can probably imagine, they eventually come to like each other but when he confesses that he loves her, she doesn't say the words back because...yeah, like I'm about to spoil the ending for people (if my wish comes true and I suddenly become a famous writer overnight) if it doesn't become published. I guess you can call this book a mix between a Disney fairytale remake and a Nicholas Sparks novel.
Well, I'm off to the races (aka class) and wish everybody a great weekend!
