And the "Worst Day of the Week" award goes to....

Sunday!! They're so awful. Between the realization that you have to go back to school the next day, all the homework you haven't been doing since Thursday's bar night, the fact that you're just generally a bum, and Chapter, it's just terrible. Here I sit at my desk, watching Curb Your Enthusiasm, working on CompLit 241, and just wanting Chapter to be over already so I can get back to my work. I don't understand why we have it on Sundays...it seems like if there's a day that many people are busy, or need to do other things, especially around 6:15pm, it's Sunday. *sigh*

I'm working on this analysis of the grandmother from Flannery O'Connors "A Good Man is Hard to Find", and Holden Caulfield from JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye". I have to identify 'what new insight each makes possible about the other's approach to the question of strangeness' for my English 230 class. It's very dull, and kind of hard to get my mind around. For instance, I'm arguing that with age often comes wisdom, and therefore the grandmother is able to understand that she is in fact flawed, and is not 100% 'good' as she'd previously thought, right before she dies; Holden on the other hand is handicapped by his lack of years, and therefore at the end of the book has basically learned nothing from his experiences, and still judges people and their actions/thoughts based on superficial qualities. Oooooh! I think that's going to be my thesis, verbatim!! I hadn't been able to think of an adequate way to put it but I think this is good!!! Yay for blogging clearing my head and untangling my thoughts :)

I'm thinking that when John goes off to other places I'm going to keep this blog and update it as a sort of record of letters to him. You know, every time start with 'Dear John', and stuff. I think that'd be nice. He'd be able to keep up with me, post, etc. And it might be nice for other people in a similar situation to see that we're all sharing the same experiences, and that it can be done!

Anyway, I just took this of me and John last night. It makes me smile; it's such a classic 'us' picture ♥

~Margs ♥

South Carolina Primary Night

Currently watching the South Carolina primary...God forbid Newt actually wins. South Carolina should seriously reconsider its original secession plans after its decision tonight to inflict more Newt Gingrich on us. Heavens. Also, is anyone else uncomfortable by the fact that Romney used the word 'appeasement' in his defeat speech? I feel like as a politician that isn't the word I'd use, given it's Nazi Germany connotations. #awkward. I think it's going to be interesting for me, as a liberal, to try and come to terms with the more or less inherently implicit Conservative values of the armed forces. Well, maybe that's too big of a generalization; I'm not entirely sure, and I'll admit that my knowledge of the armed forces at this point is limited. I'm hoping to learn more, and eventually hope to become more open-minded. Yet I do think it's going to be somewhat challenging. I'm worried that I might not fit in with some of the people that I'm going to meet through John. I hope I do. I want to be able to support him as much as I humanly can. And I think that this entire experience will be a good one for me. I just hope that I can do it, and do it well. I want to.


I feel like a bum sitting around on a Saturday night, but going out in Michigan during the winter is just so much hassle. Not only is it FRIGID (it's apparently around 15 degrees...), but there's so much snow, and I don't want to hike all the way to Fiji in heels and a skirt with little to no jacket. I was so gung-ho to go out at every opportunity last semester...I don't know if the change is the weather, or if I'm just a little burnt out. Even going to the bar on a Tuesday or Thursday sounds exhausting. I'm so content to just be sitting around right now watching the primary, maybe watch a little Curb Your Enthusiasm, and drink hot chocolate. I may go out and meet up with Leah and Andi in a little bit, depending on what it is they want to do, and I 'm hoping to see John when he's done with his Rush stuff around 10pm.


~Margs ♥