Paper #3, English Major

So I'm writing paper #3 about being an English major. It's becoming increasingly long. I'm actually quite surprised. Most of my inspiration is coming from Garrison Keillor and finding random big and important sounding words online. It should be interesting but I seriously hope people tear it apart. I'm actually somewhat excited about the large group thing. There are other English majors in the class and I'm aware this paper totally sucks so I'm hoping it dies a hard and painful death. I've felt that way about a lot of papers I've written lately. Oh well, the semester is almost over.
Next semester will be awesome. I don't start on Monday/Wed/Fri til 2:10. Yay! and then night class on Mondays. Tuesdays might suck cause I have 4 classes. I'm just confused. I met up with my advisor and then Ed from the registrars office - he's pretty much awesome - and we figured it out. I have to take 2 more English classes and then 1 more Sociology class to get my major in English and minor is Sociology. Everything else is electives. I have to take 31 more credits. So I'm bad at math but that leaves me with what like 22 more credits? I'll take GS 401, that'll take care of 3 more so I have 19 credits to fill with electives. I don't want to take electives! What kind of electives should I even take? So I filled up the extra stuff with random psych classes even though I really don't care that much about psych classes. I'm just confused about life and writing the 3rd paper about being an English major isn't helping. It just points out that if you're not getting a major in English to teach it then you really have no other purpose in doing it. I don't want to teach! And seriously, majoring in English is making me hate reading and writing. Ugh. Oh well, no early class tomorrow, yay for Thurber! So I'm sleeping in or I'm staying home tonight and will drive back there tomorrow at noon.
-CK

Hot-Tubbing, English Majors, Jeff Foxworthy and Play practice

So my sister is officially moved in to their new house in Seward...okay so they still have boxes that aren't unpacked but close enough, and now she keeps insisting I go over there and hot-tub with them, which would be fine if I actually had free time. This past week I had 3 papers due, a take-home test and a presentation. There wasn't a night that I went to bed before 2AM. Thursday I was up 'til 6. Mass craziness! Do any of you feel this way being English majors? I feel overloaded by all the reading and writing all the time. It gets boring and that sucks cause I used to love to read and write. Now it's like a chore and I don't like it.
Anyway, I'm writing my 3rd paper on being an English major. So far it's very Jeff Foxworthy,
- If you use Shakespeare’s words as a guide to your life...you may be an English major.
- If you are constantly correcting people’s grammar in a public setting...you may be an English major.
I have about 12 of those and while that is all good great grand and wonderful I'm completely stuck. My muse seems to have ran away. Perhaps I expect too much of her. Hopefully she'll be back soon. Since I was stuck and it was stop-and-go writing I moved on to the myths of being an English major. I only have about 7 of these.
- All English majors spend time reading books and drinking coffee in a coffee shop.
- False, not all of us like coffee, some of us prefer green tea.
But anyway, I have writer's block so if any of you guys have any ideas they will be welcomed!
Play practice with my kids is going well. We're going to be out of our books this week...or we better be cause we're running out of time. The play is May 3rd but they have a week off for Easter and then track meets and a field trip plus excluding weekends that's like 24 days...And I'm only out there like twice a week. We'll have to hit it hard these next few weeks.
That's all for now. I'm gonna relax before heading back to dodge.
-CK