Or, "Jane Eyre is ruining my life"
"Or rather, Charlotte Brontë is ruining my life".
But not my life. Just my poor little brain that has a soft spot for shoujo manga.
Seriously, Jane Eyre is like the Victorian novel of shoujo manga. It's romangstic!
Also, I swear Brontë can read my mind. It's those uncanny resemblances that make me on edge. Sorta like when watching MST3K and they say a riff that you're thinking about. Except it's a book and your English class is studying it.
(Halloween write-ups coming soon.)
I'm so uncool and square that I manage to pass infinite, loop around, and somehow manage to become cool again.
Least, that's the theory I give to the freshmen on the floor.
The case of the missing student has now been turned into a "death investigation".
Which is something I'm pretty sure we all knew was coming, but an end we were nonetheless hoping would not come.
My heart's in a weird place, not personally knowing her, but knowing her nonetheless. Not only was she a member of the art family that I hold near and dear, but someone I would've looked out for being an adviser. She was me last year, and now, that's over.
So I swear, if I hear any more words of ill will towards her or this case, I'm going to be punching people in the face.
My university seems to have suffered a lot in just two years, but not for a second do I think I am unsafe here. It's amazing the bond people can make when they are in situations such as ours. Part of the fight song for NIU is "forward, together forward", which became a motto after the February 14th shootings in 2008. Now we prove it again.
"Who's saying that?" It's hard to phrase exactly what people have been saying negatively about this situation that has me bothered. Basically, people have been saying that she was dumb for having gone to the woods and that she should've been more careful and variants of that.
Okay. I don't care. Seriously? You have to be that insensitive? However legitimate your safety tips are, I don't care. What happened is what happened and it is far from unusual. I don't want to hear you badmouthing her based on this, and to be as offensive as you are. Shut your mouth and have some respect.
I was debating on what to do for my Halloween costume - recycle something, make something new, plain not do something...But then I came home yesterday and found a scarf on my bed. Yay!
My mom knits but I don't like sweaters, so she instead gets to make me all kinds of hats and scarves. Needing a new one this winter, she found a pattern for the 4th Doctor's in her stash of things throughout the years and, after a bit of begging and color-assisting on my part, she made it for me. And it is GLORIOUS.
And huge. Like two feet across and seven feet long. Shorter than the actual scarf but plenty big for me.
Anyway, I went out to Goodwill today in hopes of maybe finding the few last bits for a 4 costume. Instead, I found a tweed jacket and determined that I have pretty much all the other components to do an 11.
Since Halloween is a Sunday this year, I'll be sporting it on Friday and then go from there. There's a lot I have to get done within the next week, so maybe feeling like a time traveling alien will help.
One thing I'm not used to for class is not doing anything. Japanese art history is like that. It's a fairly high-level course, backed up by the fact that me and me, Terumi, and Jiaqi are the only sophomores in the class. Everyone else is a junior, senior, or grad student.
In summary, the only grades are a visual analysis paper, a introduction thesis to the final paper, and the final paper, which is due in a month.
(Dang, How To Train Your Dragon is very pretty in Blu-ray HDTV-ness.)
We got our introduction thesis papers back the other night, which I was very happy to get an A on. But the best part is the comment she left at the end:
"Your writing is very poetic and articulate, but also leaves out many details and can leave something to be desired. However, the way it is constructed manages to fill in those missing details with vivid imagrey." (And then notes on the subject.)
Or as Jiaqi put it, "So she likes your writing but doesn't like it but then says it's okay because you do stuff that she likes."
Man, why are clear responses so hard to get out of people...professors...
