what's wrong with me

I seem to be falling behind on my posts again. The situation with Megan is working out well. I see her on Sunday evenings, walk her to her first class monday, wednesday, and friday, and have lunch with her on thursday. SO, what else has been happening?

Well, I took Megan to dinner for her birthday, we went to Miyabi, came back to my room, changed out of our nice clothes. Then I gave her her birthday presents: the CD that I made, and a copy of my journal. Then we hung out for the rest of the evening. This past Thursday, she managed to injure her left foot (she broke her right foot just before coming to Campbell). Thankfully, it was just a sprain, but I was in Fayetteville when she called me to see if I could take her to get it X-rayed. I couldn't make it back in time (she had to get it done and be back for her 6pm CNA class), so I called Faith and asked her if she would do it. She agreed, then I came back to campus and waited for them to get back. I took Megan to her CNA class that night and sat in my car reading my new Pearls Before Swine book. She called me when she was done, and she couldn't make it down the stairs with her crutches, so a police officer who was taking the class gave her a piggyback ride all the way to my car.

I went home with her this past weekend. We went to her high school homecoming, and after a couple of hours, she was exhausted because she's not used to hobbling around on crutches. So, we spent all of Saturday at her house watching movies and stuff. Amanda came by with her new boyfriend, Sparky, whom no one likes (btw, I just found out this morning that they broke up because he's being arrested for sexual assault against his ex-wife). Sunday was church, came back to school, etc.

That's the important stuff. I've got so much crap to do this semester, and it's all because of the American Lit. class I'm taking. It contributes nothing of value to my education, nor betters me as an individual, so why should I have to take it? To aggravate my problems, it seems that the professor is not aware that we have other classes, so she feels compelled to pile on assignments every day. I'm really behind, but I'll try to catch up this week.

I'm pretty nervous about the convention. I'm going to try to record "Hymn" to replace "Flood" on the CD, and then I have to record the accompaniment CD. I'll probably sing "The Scientist" at the convention.

Ugh...I'm tired. Wish I could take a nap. Haneman is, well, obsessed, and I guess she expects us to be the same way. Do you want to see what one day's homework is like from that class?

1. Read Winthrop’s account of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson: 160-164
Write a short response – ½ page to the plight of one of these early Puritan outcasts
2. Read introductory material: 357-367 [1700-1820]
3. Read re/ Jonathan Edwards: 384-386/
4. Read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 425-509
List the images he uses to characterize God’s wrath
List the language he uses to indicate the depravity of man and his precarious position
What is Edwards’ thesis?
5. Read Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown 1289-1298
List the elements of the wilderness Hawthorne develops
Make a list of binary opposites [at least 10 pairs] [eg. dawn/ dusk]
Select one pair of binaries and write a 1 page meditation on a theme in the story.


Keep in mind that that is just ONE day's assignment. We get two of these a week. It's absolutely ridiculous. The only thing I learn from literature classes is how NOT to write and what NOT to read. I hope that I don't have to take her for American Lit. II. As long as I get a C in this class, I'll be happy. Stupid crackhead English teachers. Mike better not be that way if he becomes one.