I'll Be Teaching!!!!

I’ll be TEACHING! Gasp, I know, who let me have that much power?!
Ok, here’s what’s going on. Next semester I’ll be teaching a House Course on Jane Austen going over four of her novels (Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, and Lady Susan) along with some biographical info that I’m getting off a few sites online.

I’m so excited to be teaching and teaching something I’m enthusiastic about. Already I have a lot of people on the campus wanting to take the class so I hope I can get the Hopwood or Welshimer room of the Library to use for the classroom (aside form taking everyone outside on really pretty days once spring hits).

Long time no post...again...

So I have to admit that the more that I hear about a friend of mine’s wedding the more I want to get married myself. It will be about two more years before I can marry DC (however, if it were up to him we’d be at the courthouse right now signing papers). I already know what I want, pretty much in detail and Kathy, my future-mother-in-law thinks I’m a nut but is happy for me and very supportive of DC and I.
The finny thing is I am not to the only one in this situation. The wedding planner and best friend of the friend I mentioned before is thinking about getting married too and she, like me, is going to have to wait at least two more years.
Blah I think waiting can be deadly.

So It has been a long time since I’ve posted I know, forgive me.
I’ve been busy with school and boyfriend and work.

Lately I’ve been working in the college library archives creating Today in (College Name Here) History and typing up letters from 1910. I love my job. Its perfect for a geeky introvert. My boss gives me my assignment (preferably not running books from the basement to the second floor and back) and we talk about DragonCon, web comics, and other such matters. Mostly it’s quiet and I’m surrounded by books and the musty smell of old paper while I decipher the handwriting of the college’s founding fathers. Love it!

The Presidential Election has hit another height since I last posted. Welcome the VPs into the media frenzy. It gets to the point where I reach apathy and want to throw a rock at the TV. I mean, really, there isn’t a politician who isn’t crooked and won’t say whatever they feel will get them elected. I don’t trust either candidate at all and that ont top of the fact that people’s votes don’t count is why I am not voting. Perhaps this year will be Nadar’s chance?

Update of School Life

Life at school is hectic and busy.
So far classes are alright excepting a few small things that I hope won’t become problems (especially in my math class; blech).

HORNETS ARE EVIL
A hornet flew into DC’s truck and attacked me yesterday. I got stung twice (on the ear and on the thigh) and as our friend Tim said “I’ve never seen her cuss so much.” Poor DC took very good care of me and petted on me until the double dose of Benedryl started working then left me on the couch to watch Sense and Sensibility (YAY Emma Thompson!) while he and Tim hung out in the kitchen.

RAVE
We of course all know Jane Austen is one of the most amazing writers ever. Northanger Abby is my favorite so far because I can definitely relate with Christina Morland (and her overactive imagination). Now I’m reading Sense and Sensibility and loving it a great deal. The movie was great with such amazing actos as Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, and Hugh Grant (who could say no to that?!).

Confused. Is Rhianna trying to become the black female Marilyn Manson? Can anyone explain her (sorta) new video to me?

Back At School

I’m sorry to have been negligent of my blog for so long. I’ve started back at school like I’m many of you have or have children who have. So far so good. I get to spend a bunch of time wit DC and have a great roommate/suitemates. My classes are mostly core requirements but I’m trying to be enthusiastic about them. Still getting used to the cafeteria food, I’ve come to be very grateful to DC’s cooking or requests to go to a restaurant.
So that was the overview of my letters home…

Eastern Tennessee has to be one of the most beautiful places in America. I’m not one for landscapes usually or farmland, etc, etc. However, I could look at the mountains here forever. From DC’s kitchen window while I sit on the sofa and read I can see perfectly spotted cows grazing on a gold and green hill and the background is a hazy blue-gray of mountains and sky. I just sat and stared for a while until DC’s mom interrupted my musings to ask what I found so interesting in the kitchen. My little college campus is settled in a nest of low mountains with each cluster of buildings on a hill looking like little churches or beacons. In all it’s very picturesque. I revel in the simple beauty and know why I was consumed with homesickness for my three months at my parents’ house.

Jane Austen

As I have mentioned I am reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for a second time and have purchased the movie when I saw it on sale. I’ve decided that I do not think Kiera Knightly is not who I would have chosen as Elizabeth Bennet. I can’t think of anyone off the top of my head who might be better but preferably someone who seemed more intelligent and less pretty, for Elizabeth was meant to be seen that way.

Two Jane Austen Blogs have caught my attention: Jane Austen Addict and Jane Austen Today. Be sure to check them out.

What Austen book I will read next I haven’t decided yet. Perhaps someone could point me in the right direction. I’m thinking Emma but I hear Mansfield Park is wonderful too…