I want to wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas, or whatever holiday you may celebrate.
Funny story in my blog. Think you might get a kick out of it. http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=8365.
Fear not Virgil, I'm a straight A student. Doesn't mean I've read more than 50% of the literature though, guess I'm just smart enough to manage still. Besides, in highschool etc, the driving force was good grades, being the best. This no longer seems important to me. What is important is that I'm getting exactly what I want out of my education. I may not have read more than half the required material, but I've read so much that is extracuricular, that I have yet to have a semester without highest acheivable grade. I assure you. I'll be fine, but thanks very much for your concern
Chava, you had said this in a recent post today, "I think my priorities in life have really changed. Different things matter now; academics are no longer a driving force so to speak." I completely understand how you feel. I went through stages like that myself, returned to the notion that academics are important, and now I'm completely with the notion that academics are only a means to an end. What I want to convey is that it's important that you get a degree. First it's an accomplishment and sort of the capstone of all your education from kindergarten. So it brings it to an end and it's something to be proud of. But even more importantly is that it's a means to an end. It's very hard to get a good job without college degree. You may not see the usefullness at the moment but it will be important. What you learned may not directly serve you, but the process of thinking and presenting your ideas can only come from having been schooled. Well, perhaps not only, but it's much harder without. Having gotten as close as you are, don't quit. It's not much further. And then you can have more opportunities for what you really want to do in life. Best of luck.
Yes, I think he has the best prose style of anyone I can think of. Have fun.
Well, i'm devouring it as often as I have time. Lovely book, with the most beautiful absorbing writing. Fitzgerald practically makes me drool. Sleep well, I've got an early class tomorrow on Hegemonic power relations
Yes thank you, though I just came back from the gym and I think I over did it. I had my heart rate up to 183. I'm feeling exhausted. But we had snow here , enough to close my place of work, so I was hime, but I had to shovel. Not sure which I would have preferred. Hey that's pretty good novel. It's not entirely smooth in places, but I really felt compassion for Dick Diver.
Tender is the Night, about half way through, but my copy is getting more and more weather torn; or bag torn really from maltreatment in the rucksack. I've been patching it up with tape all evening. Doing well I hope?
Oh Chava, I saw you're going to bed with Fitzgerald. What are you reading by Fiztgerald, if you don't mind me asking?
Me neither And fo course, I've grown mature enough not to let varrying political opinion be a deciding factor for friendship
