Today was an awesome day! I was smiling on the ride home from school. Finally a good one and one spent away from the kids– imagine that! I feel bad for my poor husband though. He was the one stuck with the kids all evening and he had a sore throat this morning.
I am taking another Shakespeare class so my day started off performing. I got to be King Lear today, yelling out at a storm (I was pelted with Legos by the class to mimic rain). We are working with King Lear all semester long and collaboratively writing a play centered on Flint issues. It should be interesting. Dr. Kietzman is an awesome professor and always has great activities in class.
After class I had to take care of some red tape– signing up for the Shakespeare class as an independent study. That went much better than expected considering I messed up at school all last year (because of depression and my family issues, grrr) and I think some professors wonder about me. I also had a great chat with Dr. Kietzman and she made me feel better about some of what I was going through academically last year– it wasn’t all me, some of it was actually the professors and their boring classes.
Once I got all the boring stuff out-of-the-way I was able to spend about 3+ uninterrupted hours in the library working on my poetry for creative writing; we are working on haiku. Spending 3+ hours on writing is truly wonderful. It also went much better than expected and I came up with about 23 haiku I could work with (I only needed 17), most of them in the library today. I even have a set of related ones that tell a story. Surprisingly, I got done earlier than expected and was able to get some tea before class. YAY!
Then I was on my way to my evening class, which was great! Free books– who can beat that! Thank you Jan Worth-Nelson!
We work-shopped our haiku in class; it was excellent. Class is small– only 7 people. I enjoy haiku– it is easier for me to work with– not so long. So many awesome haiku and there was lively discussion about words and writing. I missed that! I read some of my poems last and received some nice feedback. I am not the greatest at poetry or even work-shopping so it is lovely to get complimented.
I need to brush up on my poetry terminology though because I feel like I could not add much to the discussion. I hate that I don’t remember those terms. I have a handy-dandy reference card somewhere; I must dig it out. I also should put all those terms on flashcards and study them, or perhaps make a recording to listen to. I am feeling a bit better about poetry this time around but we’ll see– I don’t get as excited as some of my classmates over it and I feel bad about that. I don’t tune into to rhythm and sound as well or get much feeling from poems initially. I don’t know why I am like that. We’ll see how I do with sonnets next week; I am trying to be upbeat.
I accomplished so much the last few days, and on very little sleep! I have had a terrible sinus and allergy troubles this month. I barely got any sleep last night because of a horrendous asthma attack. I endeavor to work through it all.
Now I need to keep this momentum going (sans allergies and asthma of course).
Of course two of my nephews (the oldest and the youngest) will not go to sleep now and are playing with Legos. The youngest, age six is showing me the angry sheep he made in school, ha ha. He also made me a Lego car though he is supposed to be sleeping.
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