Crazy things my professors say...

Tonight in class, it occurred to me that the teaching staff at USF St. Pete is way more humorous than the staff at St. Pete College (I went there for my AA). If the SPC teachers are funny, I never saw it.

So here goes:

Bible as Lit, Dr. W suggests we all watch Dogma because Alan Rickman is in it and it's really funny. He also throws in as a side note that Silent Bob is in the film as well, and it also "very funny."

Brit/Irish Lit, Dr. W (different than above) makes hilarious references to the movie Office Space when talking about how long essays should be at the minimum. At the beginning of the semester in each class (this is the 3rd class of his I've taken) he says, "Don't get caught wearing the minimum flair!" He compares page count to flair. Haha silly.

Yesterday he compared Nine Inch Nails to the superior/ inferior thoughts in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." I zoned out a little, but it was something along the lines of that insecure feeling conveyed through some of the NIN lyrics and Prufrock's thoughts.

Brit Lit, Dr. R. has suggested all different sights to see in England throughout the semester. Poet's Corner, Wordsworth's home, 221 Baker St....yadda yadda. Tonight she says (in a very up-beat tone) "There is also a night tour that you can go on in London where you are taken to a several spots where Jack the Ripper killed women." *awkward silence + crickets* Then lots of laughing. You could tell she was in a moment and it was hilarious! She's so fun. (I'm taking one of her classes in the Fall, too).

Also, while talking about "The Lady of Shalott" she was very excited to talk about Lancelot, almost like he was a literary crush. Don't hate, everyone has one.

Brit Lit, Dr.C haha where to start! One day he did a really great Obi-Wan impression. "These aren't the droids you're looking for" from A New Hope.

There are more, my brain just has water on it right now. So, goodnight! xoxo

White night!

Tonight after class I decided to work with white sculpey first before any other color. Silly me always starts messing around with white sculpey after I've been using colors such as green, black or red. Or any color really. It is so hard sometimes to scrub every scrap of sculpey off of your fingers and hands, so when you start with another color especially white or yellow, you end up with streaks!

Soooo.........I used only white tonight and then a teeensy scrap of light pink. I made 3 white roses (and then threw one away. I made the petals to thin and I broke it on the way out of the oven. Whoops!), 2 white bows and a cute little bunny.

I was going to move onto another light color, but honestly I'm tuckered out. The bunny and the bows are in the oven now and when they come out I'm grabbing a book off the shelf and heading to bed. What book? Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

Hopefully I'll have more ring bases in tomorrow and these new lovelies along with the pearly green roses and bows from last night will go up on Storenvy. I'll also post some pictures here too. 'Night white sculpey!

I can't read numbers!

How about that! I spend all my time reading, reading and reading beautiful works of literature and I can't read a stinkin' number! When I ordered the cockateil feathers I didn't read the description completely. I read the words and skipped over the numbers! I received two of them (that part I got right) but I was expecting them to be at least twice the size they are... 1 7/8" inches! Not even 2 inches!

The first thought that came to my silly head was, "Dang! That bird must be a teacup bird or something!" Then I remembered birds are teacup sized anyway. Hahaha

I'd google the bird to see how big they are but I don't feel like giving myself the willies over it. (Birds,  eeeck!) I just always thought those big, scary birds they have out at the pet stores were cockateils.

Oh, well. The tiny feathers are still usable! Then, I ripped open the other package that came in today thinking it had my macaw feathers in it (and I would be ecstatic because that means they were shipped earlier than expected) and there was a stinkin' camera strap. Not for me! Anyhoo, back to work! I'm starting a paper on Shelley's Frankenstein and one of Blake's poems.

pizza+homework

Mmmmm luke warm pizza. I woke up around 1:45pm (rough night) and I'm have breakfast/lunch/snack/possibly dinner. I have to  catch up on all the reading and homework I promised myself  I would do on Thursday and Friday. Reading includes Heaney's translation of "Beowulf", various poems from the Romantic period and re-reading Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I read Heart of Darkness last semester. I'm taking the same professor's Brit Lit class this semester and it's on his syllabus again. *sigh*