Monday, March 17, 2008

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Contrary to many beliefs, the English like to claim St. Paddy even more than the Irish. He was sent by the Pope to evangelize in Ireland, but he was actually English. Dun-dun-dun. I will be wearing green to avoid being pinched, since I'm half-Irish. (The other percentage is Lebanese, but we don't have any cool dress-up days for that ethnicity.) Happy Day! Also, for some of you, this is leading up to Holy Week, with Easter on Sunday. To that end, and rather than get into a big theological discussion about anything, I wanted to mention to you that PEEPS are a lot of fun for Easter. You can microwave them to turn them into "art" or you can merely play with them for hours of sugary fun. Check out this website: www.lordofthepeeps.com.

Oh, and I have a bad cold, so I don't know how much my lecturing will be understandable today. We'll try!

APees: You should have finished reading Jane Eyre by now; if you haven't, I am pretending that you have because we jave things to discuss and plot spoilers to fling. Hint: BERTHA BERTHA BERTHA. Focus paper is due Friday; creative writing in-class is Wednesday, and Romanticism creative project is due next Wednesday. In other words, hours of fun before the end of this quarter. HOURS. I spent about an hour this weekend preparing a wild diagram of this entire novel, in geographic/theme form, and I even did it in green ink for your delectation. So come early, stay awake, and enjoy the Art.

Gifted English II: After we share our MadLibs, we need to clarify the memoir assignment and then do some reading in class. We have a new outside reading pending and I want to get well underway before Spring Break.