apparently so.

Let me be the first to say it:

I think that now they’re just making things up.

is very sexy with the next console.

rawr!

I’ve got the comp director visiting my classroom today, then the same person giving me my World Lit comp(the last one for BSU! Hooray!).

I’m hoping the class is going to be cooperative today, and that we’ll go the entire time.

so much to do this weekend it’s scary. Gotta do that comp, gotta edit my thesis, gotta write a paper or two(hopefully) for Pacifica….

good criminy. I hope I can get it all done. World Lit Comp, though, takes precedence over everything else.

and about 4 hours before I assumed I would be.

time enough for a nap.

of traveling back and forth. And finishing up with the Thesis stuff. I wonder if I should defend it a week earlier…

the thesis situation has been taken care of.

it’s going to rock.

so I’m being told that my creative thesis is “too long”.

if anything, I don’t think it’s long enough. I understand that MOST OF THE TIME, these things run 65-100 pages. I’ve provided copies to my other committee members, as well.

however, the “academic” side of things where I made a defense of the fantasy genre and its placement…I cannot make those statements and expect the readers to TRUST WHAT I’M SAYING without including the entire book.

I don’t want to be one of the critics based solely on what I’ve read. My statements that I make in the defense of the genre ARE CRUCIAL AND ARE TRUE because I am arguing from my experience AS A WRITER, not a reader. that’s the distinction that is necessary. and not just as a short story writer(which would support what I say), but as an author that CREATED A FULL PUBLISHABLE BOOK.

the story that I created, one that runs the full length of a book, gives me a position of authenticity with which I can argue my points about the fantasy genre. Without the complete book, with only an excerpt included in the final thesis, that position is severely undercut.

and yet my advisor is asking me to cut it down by 50+ pages at the very least.

look at it this way: I’ve created something, and now I’m being asked to cut away the full something to only excerpts. I don’t think I can.

I honestly feel like crying.

not that it has much to do with Native American mythologies, but we’ve gotten a good 10 minute presentation on Joyce’s Ulysses.

he’s tying it back now into the N.A. myths now….but I appreciated a little bit of the knowledge on Ulysses. Now I need to read it.

maybe, since I saved money on my books this semester, I’ll treat myself to Ulysses and a book on scandinavian mythology.

mmm…books.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Today features no great purpose or extraordinary project. That is, until you realize that your rather normal daily purpose and very ordinary projects are actually profound callings.

you’ll have to excuse me, I’ve got to go do something profound while in the bathroom.

so here’s the deal with buying books for Pacifica for next quarter:

Pacifica Book Store’s Total Price: 213.46
Amazon.com total price: 163.38
Half.com total price: 154.47

Mix ‘n Match from Half.com, Amazon.com, and bookstore: 136.69.

good times.

passed my brit lit comp.

2 down, 1 to go. then edit the changes required by my thesis committee, write a paper for the Troy Story class, and my oral defense.

then I am finished. I will have mastered the art of the english language.

is really nice and temperate outside today.

probably going to have some lunch, see a movie, get to santa barbara, and then catch up with my pacifica peeps.

good times.

seeing as how it’s a sunday, I felt that pearls before swine had it about right.

and, I think, there was a jab at scientology in there. which makes me even more happy.

in pretentiousness:

while walking around minneapolis, I saw perhaps the most pretentious place possible. Here’s what must have gone through the owner’s minds:

“How do we make the most pretentious place possible?”
“Wine bar!”
“Good start! But how do we make it more pretentious? We’re talking George Clooney pretentious!”
“Hmmm….”
“Wait! I’ve got it! ADD COFFEE!!!!”
“Brilliant!”
“Brilliant!”

and thus Willie’s Wine Bar and Coffee House of Minnepolis was born. I didn’t have the courage to peek into their windows to see the prices. I think the amount of noses in the air at that place would have been an unpleasant view.

so the hunt begins again.

I blame Canada’s government for this. These baby seals, defenseless and fuzzy, are hunted shamelessly by some in order to sell their skins. Canada’s government should ban this activity completely and utterly, just like other developed countries have. But what alternative do these hunter’s have, they need to make a living as well…

Instead, Canada should allow the clubbing of activists. Lord knows there’re enough of THOSE people around at times like these, and it seems that their numbers are getting too great. It’s time to cull the herd.

I’d pay like $5 for a wallet made with genuine McCartney skin.