Bears in my head...

Hi there. I don't really have a lot og time to blog today--in fact, I'm avoiding my homework at this very moment. But I figured I was allowed a short break. Although, can you really call it a break if you haven't started yet? Well, I did read the introduction to the book for Honors Seminar. That class frustrates me to no end. There seems to be no point. The profs either don't know what they want from us, or they're just really bad at getting us to find it for ourselves. They expect a lot of honors students, which would seem to make sense. Except that there are several forms of honors students. There are the psychotic never-in-the-box-to-begin-with thinkers that love a class full of discussion, and then there are those who reached honors status by becoming very good at figuring out what the teacher wanted to hear. We all have to take the class to keep our scholarships, so hopefully we can learn to get along. Tempers have flared already between the philosophical thinkers and those who crave structure. And in reading the introduction for the book I've realized that the entire class really does contradict itself. We're supposed to be studying the use of metaphors, but the whole point of the book we're reading is to prove that illness is *not* a metaphor. So I am further confused and cannot wait to be done with this class forever.

The rest of my classes are looking pretty good, which is a relief. Even theory shouldn't be bad, Krause seems a lot nicer there than he does in choir sometimes. Although, if I keep doing well he may try to convert me to a music major. Sorry, no thanks.

So last night I began working on my novel again. I've had bears in my head since I went to the dentist two weeks ago, and I finally started getting it out into words. The best part is, I have almost every detail set in my mind so that all I have to do is find time to get it written out. I went back through what I had already written to make a timeline and get my head sorted out, and I was pleasantly suprised at how good my Dagron chapters were. Woohoo! Peridot is actually harder to do. Dagron is fun because I get to be evil for once, but truly good characters like Peridot get boring if you aren't careful.

And today I practiced my violin for roughly 2 1/2 hours, and my arms feel funny now. I think I need to do this every week. Anyway, life is good and I'm not evertired anymore. Let's see how long this lasts.

-Kim