HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Mom and Dad! I hope you're having fun in Seattle with the peeps!

I'm figuring out my schedule for next quarter. I'm being much more methodical and much less impulsive about it this time. I didn't know the process for registering was so ridiculous before, so I kind of had to pick things on the spot. But now I know, and I'm not going to sign up for anything that I know I'm not going to want to do anything for. Nothing like Modernism again where I think it's interesting, but not interesting enough to write an essay on. Those classes I'm describing are the Ancient Classics. That's my ancient myth and poetry class is my favorite this quarter and it's the easiest too. Just go listen to this guy talk, read a book, study hard for the exam and you're done. So my "for sure" classes that are going to apply back at Central are Counterpoint and Sociology. That's it. So I have 20 credits to work with. I'm not going to take a full schedule again though. I don't have to, so why? I'm also working it so that I don't have classes on Friday. Or Thursday, and very very possibly Wednesday. This could be amazing. A packed full Monday and Tuesday, but it'll be awesome! Much easier to conquer Europe when class doesn't get in the way.

Nate invited me to thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. I am so there. He bought this huge turkey, and got all this food delivered to him by his "program," so him and the rest of the Americans he knows are going to eat all his food. If there are only a few of us I'll share some of my pumpkin pie. He's gotten on my nerves the last few times I've talked to him though. He seems to think the kitchen is the most disgusting place on earth. It's pretty gross, but I don't complain about it because I don't really want to clean it up because the vast majority of it is not my mess. He's not going to clean shit, but he can sit there and talk about it for half an hour and rag on the other people in the apartment for not doing anything. Whatever man.

I spent from noon until 4 reading Mrs. Dalloway. I'm almost done with it now. I shall finish it tonight and put a dent in the last bit of the Odyssey. Tomorrow I shall finish the Odyssey and start in on the Faulkner. I'm not taking any English courses next term. I'm thinking about dropping the Creative Writing minor too. It's kind of a silly minor. Everyone says if you want to write, just write. It's not that easy though. Maybe if it's not that easy, I just shouldn't do it...I'm also going to be very behind with the major, so I could use all the credits I can get my hands on.