Don't you step on my Blue suede shoes!

I have class at the Arabic for foreigners language center at KU with a high school friend. Classes with high school friends get memories started. Anyways, so we sit next to each other, and sitting next to her is this girl. She asks the most stupid questions. First, I was trying to be nice about it because I wasn't really paying attention in the first place. But then, horror strikes, and I start getting pissed. Every single time she asks a question of such stupidity, I share a knowing look with F (my high school friend). This example is provided by F:


Dr: "La limti7an bas as2ila mako 7ifith"
Girl: "Ya3ni dr. mako 7ifith 7ag limti7an?"
*beats violently with chair*


You get the idea. Now, F is referring to those questions as "wise." Lol, just a few more months, F. Hang in there;p

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I always thought professors set tests based on the textbook we use for the course and what they say in class. I never imagined enetering a test where most of the questions asked were beyond my (and at least five other people's) knowledge. Hmm.. What do you think, ya 3youni?

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I'm reading this now.

So far (Chapter 5), each chapter is a first person narrative by a different character. The story is about the mystery behind a murder. It goes back and forth. The language is very direct. I think I'm going to like it.

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In defense of literature, again!

People wonder why people read. For me, reading literature is an escape from reality. It allows me to go into another world far away from my own very limited life. In books, I find worlds and people I will never experience being in/with. Literature widens my perspective and helps me create for myself a more broad sense of what is "out there." I feel like it has made me a better person, and it will continue to do that for me. I find that I expect the unexpected more. I end with September's Quote of the Month:

"We must for dear life make our own counterrealities."

-Henry James