my senior seminar is a mega interesting class because its about food, literature, and culture and i'm a total nerd and absolutely LOVE food and find the study of food and literature/culture immensely interesting. which is why i attended all of the lectures of the uta english department hermanns lecture series this year, as well as being selected to be part of a special undergraduate course with rick bayless, a famous mexican chef. my favorite part of that class was that he's not just some chef who loves to cook; he went to mexico originally to write his dissertation for an anthropology master's degree and fell in love with the food. he says that his first cookbook authentic mexican (the one i actually have) is his dissertation. it's amazing. i've never read a cookbook like it before. he includes the cultural background to he dish as well as different ways you can prepare the ingredients. i made his tortilla soup a couple weeks ago and its AMAZING! anyway, all we do in that class is read and then discuss the readings...the most common conversation gravitates around cannibalism...which is a very highly debated topic...ask if you want more info on that :). currently we are reading a book called the omnivore's dilemma which is all about food production in america...its very interesting and kind of makes me not want to eat anything i didn't grow ever again...
my young adult literature class is ridiculously remedial. it is a 4000 level course, which means it should be challenging and should have prereq courses; however, apparently they let anyone in. the professor teaches the class like a sophomore level course and if this wasn't my last semester, or if i was just wanting to graduate and get it over with and didn't actually want to learn something then i wouldn't be so disappointed. as it is though, i tend to like being intellectually stimulated and i can literally feel my brain turn to mush in that class. all we do is read a book, take a plot quiz, do character analysis on EVERY character in the book, and then discuss surface level questions about the books. all in one day so there's not even the possibility of going any deeper into possible theory on the texts. no wonder young adult lit has no theory or canon...no one studies one book long enough to develop any real ideas! to give you some sense of the class, i will give you an example. as you know, all young adult novels are "coming of age" novels. one day in class, while discussing a separate peace, one of my classmates, who is a communications major and thinks that means she needs to narrate the class, randomly said, as if she was having an epiphany: "OHH so this is a coming of age novel??" no duh. AND the professor reviews for class by watching the movies and its sooo obvious by the stuff she brings up in class about plot summary...either it didn't happen in the book or it happened totally different!
my two history classes are good though: World Civilization and Ancient Greece, both taught by the same professor. he's one of my fav's cause he's very entertaining. he's a funny old man who parts his hair in the middle. the only thing i dont enjoy about those classes is that each of them has a guy that won't leave me alone. they both sit behind me (one in each class) and ask me stupid questions or for my notes or just jabber about nothing at all. whatever.
i have decided that "things" is a lot more fun to play with people you know. we played it at the halloween party last weekend and no one really knew each other that well, so it took forever. BUT we played it last night at timothy's and we all knew each other or at least knew the type of person that every one was...so it was a lot of fun...i almost died laughing.
i have also decided to start knitting. trying to learn more than just the basic knit stitch, but its rather difficult and i think everything i make for christmas will just be a boring solid thing. once i get that down perfectly perhaps i will attempt again to try a design. i actually ruined a good 30-40 rows that i had finished because i wanted to try a pattern and totally screwed it up. oh well...just gotta start over i guess.
i'm sooo excited for the rest of this year!!! a TON of really good looking movies are coming out this month including flipping HARRY POTTER!!!! could not be more excited, unless of course my sisters were here to go to the midnight showing with me like we did last year. but it will be awesome anyway. and i just realized i get to see it before meaghan!!! wooohooo!!! yay for different time zones :) .
december will be AWESOME too! not only do i graduate but my mom is coming to stay for a while. she will get here on the 12th and so far will not be leaving until the 7th of january. she'll be here for graduation, christmas, new years, AND my birthday! :D. i honestly don't remember the last time i spend any of those holidays with my mom. :/ so this year will be extra awesome.
but along with graduation comes the end of school and the end of my current job and the desperate need for an actual job. i interviewed with bank of america this past week, but the other applicant had 15 years experience, which i do not have. but the interview was a good experience and they sent my resume to their communications department so hopefully i'll get a call from them sometime this week *fingers crossed* other than that i will be sending out my resume to anyone who will take it in the hopes that i will get some kind of well paying job.
of course i can't post without an update for my sweet kitten :). currently he's about 6 or so months...dont feel like counting right now. and he's about 2/3 the size of his momma. i think she's gaining weight, but i can't be sure because i'm seeing her compared to Hudson. it has become the popular consensus that both of my cats act like dogs. at the halloween party last weekend there were roughly 10-14 people there and while we were in a circle playing "things" both cats were in the middle of the circle sniffing people out. juno got bored and went to sleep on her tower, but hudson was playing around the whole night. most typical cats would run and hide until all the people were gone, but they both let random strangers hold and pet them no problem...well juno did at least...hudson didn't let anyone hold him, but he let people pet him as he was walking by :). got to get that boy fixed soon though...i'm afraid he might start spraying what he thinks is "his property" in the apartment. speaking of spraying though, juno has only peed outside her litter box when she was pregnant, and i'm pretty sure that was because she didn't make it, or the box was way dirty...its amazing how different she is living here compared to what she was living at my dad's. she couldn't go a week without peeing on a bed or a couch there, and here she's only peed on bathroom rugs twice. oh and the bed once cause we weren't home one night. anyway, the point is, i'm proud of her improvement..i think she's just genuinely happy here...not getting locked in closets or zipped into comforter bags when she's not being ignored.
anyway...lots of exciting things coming up...i will keep you updated :) - love you meaghan :D!
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