So far, so good

So far, it seems that Tuesdays and Thursdays are going to be my favorite days of the week. In the a,m., I have a literature class called "Growin up in Dixie," and it is about exactly what it says...growing up in the South, and American literature stemming from Southern authors. My professor is a new, just out of school dude from Wisconsin...laid back, easy going attitude. Then, in the afternoon ....Ceramics. Yes, I get to play with clay twice a week and act like a little kid with Play-Doh being taught how to make bowls from a man who seems more like a grandpa then a college professor.

My other lit class is Modern English and Irish Literature. The reading list seems like it is going to be really enjoyable, but this particular class is going to be a bit more work than the others, but that's okay. Still not as much reading and writing as I had to do last semester so far, so its all good. I am also taking a feature writing class. This will be my.. 6th (?) Journalism class. I am still a little skeptical as to how this one will turn out, but we shall wait and see.

Then there is my Senior Honors Thesis.

I am writing about the family dynamics/ culture/ life in Indian families. I am using Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth. Originally, I also planned to use Midnight's Children by Rushdie, but I decided to eliminate it because I just wasn't as enthused by it, than the other two. I need to have some kind of draft in a couple of weeks. It is interesting to be invested in this one project for so long. Normally, for a term paper, you labor over it for days, then you hand it in and forget about it, you can't even stand to look at it anymore. But with this, it is months of work, and you actually have the freedom to go in any direction for as many or as little pages as you want, or don't want. It is different but challenging and fun to have the ability to just completley delve into a book and totally rip it up, give your own analysis, then put it back together...and all with your own words, thoughts and conclusions. More about that later...

I know, I am a bit of a nerd. I can't help it :)