This Creature is Lore

One reason I sometimes support being "forced" to learn things--precondition being that one has gone into this with eyes open, such as my decision to finally get myself to college--is that one is subjected to ideas, knowledge and resources one may not have pursued on one's own.  I'm on my last year of general ed, and I find that I've benefited profoundly from literary, historical, and philosophical knowledge I might have missed out on if I'd been able to leap right into upper division science courses.

These short stories are awesome! very psychologically intricate, the first closing on possibly the most ironic line I've ever read, the second seeming to flirt with what I'd almost call Lovecraftian descriptions in terms of the creepy wallpaper.  Apparently both have film adaptations, which I want to get my hands on and watch and then rant about plot and character butchery.

"The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin, 1894.

"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892.
  She sounds fascinating!  "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'  The Forerunner. 1913.
  (Trivia of personal note: her first husband's second wife was Grace Ellery Channing, the granddaughter of William Ellery Channing, a fellow referenced a good deal in my quasi-religious community.)

Happy New Year, internet!

None of my friends were doing anything of note, so since fate had decreed a quiet and reflective evening, I rewatched American Beauty, a film I've not seen in over 11 years, and found it better than ever. I also attempted some writing and began a project I'd been putting off. And started to take the rough storyboards for my comic and attempt finished products.

This morning all last semester's grades are finally posted online. For a certain class, it was actually a pleasant surprise that I received a B. That's never been the case. The one other time I received a B I was rather upset. Guess it's all a matter of perspective.

Meanwhile, to compensate, the online score distribution graph says I was the only one in my History class to get a perfect score on the final essay. That's what I like to see on the first day of the new year. *picture my icon preening*