Tuesday, January 24, 2006

I'm a graduate student!

I WENT TO CLASS YESTERDAY! Ha! I enjoyed it much. I have been waiting forever to be a student again. In my lit and film class, I am the only graduate student and the only black student. So, I am in a sea of all white faces. There were two students from MP and one from Biloxi. (all male) We are reading The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It's a pretty good book, easy read, thought-provoking. I have to do an oral presentation on it next week. I'm excited about it. I've already figured out some of the things I'm going to say. I already know what I want my thesis to be for the paper I have to do. I'm ready. (Oh yeah, I dozed off while we were watching the movie. It was good, but I was too tired to focus completely on a movie.) Then I went to my Percy and O'Conner class. It seems like its gone be alecture class and I do not perform well in those bc I am borderline (if not completely) ADD. He told us to spend the week thinking about where we want to meet bc we aren't going to meet in the classroom. There are 7 students in the class and it is a 3 hr evening class, so he wants to meet at a resteraunt or coffeehouse. That should be pretty good. We read Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man is Hard to Find." It was pretty good. Flannery O'Conner is pretty cool, though I have only read 3 of her stories. If nothing else, I should learn something because he was name dropping like crazy and I had no idea who any of the writers or critcs were. So, I should learn something. I still have to read 2 articles and another short story for that class.
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I went home this weekend. Theta Zeta Omega had a Founder's Day program. It was nice. Soror Doty was the speaker and as animated as she always is. That woman has so much "SPIRIT" its unbelievable. I decided to join that chapter. Well, I had already decided. I just don't have the money right now. I will after income tax though.
Speaking of money, my LS want to go to New York to see The Color Purple on Broadway. I really wanna go. I just don't know if I can afford it. My moma said she would call my uncle in NY and see if he could find some cheaper flights and hotels. It seems ideal to just stay with him and his wife, esp. since they don't have any children. They are honestly the nicest people in the world. His wife is so sweet, but I don't think I would want to stay with them while in Manhatten. There is so much to see and so much to do. I don't know what time we would come in at night. If this had been one of my mom's brother's or sister's as opposed to my dad's, it wouldn't be a problem. Simply because they are a little more relxed. One of my best friends wants to go. I have to run that by my ls. It shouldn't be a problem bc they all like her. She's cool people. I think we would have a blast.
I finally burned a CD. I am so computer illiterate. If it doesn't involve the internet or microsoft, I'm aloof. Since I have this new laptop, I've been experimenting! I'm learning a few things. I scanned my pics and put them on a disk. Ha! I'm pretty proud of myself, even though I should have known these things.
Anyway, those are about the only fascinating details of my life right now.
toodles
Posted by Nik :: 1/24/2006 :: 1 Comments:

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