To Do List...again Plus reading list!

[jadelyntate]

Holy smokes a US passport costs a bundle! Granted, I did expedite the hell out of it so I'll, you know, actually get it before Spring Break in March, but still! $230 bucks!

TO DO LIST
- PASSPORT
- FLIGHT
- Buy Starfest ticket
- Clean bedroom
- Buy bookcase
- Clean out closet
- Clean kitchen

And, thought you might like to see the MASSIVE list of books I'll be reading (and re-reading in some cases!) in the next 15 weeks:


- The Road ~ McCarthy
- The House on Mango Street ~ Cisneros
- The Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams
- Neon Vernacular ~ Komunyakaa
- Where Rivers Change Directions ~ Spragg
- Hamlet ~ William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Nights Dream ~ Shakespeare
- Romeo & Juliet ~ Shakespeare
- Twelfth Night ~ Shakespeare
- Richard III ~ Shakespeare
- Macbeth ~ Shakespeare
- The Bluest Eye ~ Morrison
- Song of Solomon ~ Morrison
- Beloved ~ Morrison
- Love ~ Morrison
- Mercy ~ Morrison
- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
- The Vicar of Wakefield ~ Goldsmith
- Pride & Prejudice ~ Austen
- The Scarlet Letter ~ Hawthorne
- Lord of the Flies ~ Golding
- Wuthering Heights ~ Bronte
- Nausea ~ Sartre
- Bluebeard ~ Vonnegut



- 5 essays for Advanced Composition
- 30-40 page paper for Senior Seminar
- 10-12 page research paper for Shakespeare
- Weekly reading journal for Shakespeare
- 3-4 page response to "The Bluest Eye" for Major Authors
- 5-6 page critical analysis paper on "Song for Solomon" for Major Authors
- Poster & Oral presentation on "Beloved" for Major Authors
- 5-6 page critical analysis on "Love" & "Mercy" for Major Authors
- Presentation on non-African American literature in accordance to African American reality for Major Authors
- 7-12 page term paper for The Novel
- midterms for Shakespeare, Major Authors: Toni Morrison, and The Novel all around Spring Break.


All of this in 15 weeks? Someone shoot me now!

In other news, I completely forgot how much I enjoy classes with Baker. He's blunt and a hardass but very understanding and an absolute hoot! We were discussing if everyone knew everyone else (I knew three of the other five students) and he was like,

Baker: I know Jade, this is the...fourth? class she's taken with me. I think she and Alice hold the record for students taking classes with me.
Jade: Uh huh, starting with right before freshman year. 3 weeks of 102 hell.
Baker: Yeah, so when you're cursing all the reading all you got to remember is that at least its not 15 weeks crammed into 3 like English 102 was.
Jade: This is very true.

And when we were introducing ourselves, he was like:

Baker: Are you still working on your novel?
Jade: Which one?
Baker: You've done more than one? Wait, what am I saying, of course you have, you're a great writer. *to rest of class* If you need a paper written, I don't condone this but Jade is the one to go to if you want an A.
Jade: Thanks. ... I think.

And then me and Jon got to mentioning the English department field trip to the rare books collection up at CU: Boulder and how there was a MASSIVE drug bust in the hotel parking lot as we were waiting for Baker and Mazel to get our room keys.

So far, my first week has been...an experiance.

Also, last thing: Guess who's little sister got her acceptance letter to Adams State College this afternoon, thus making her the first one to get accepted anywhere in her class? *grins* So, so proud of her!

Comments

[silvercaladan]

1) Hamlet is my favorite Shakespeare play :) Good luck on all the reading!

2) Its CU:Boulder, what did you expect?