semester nearly over!

so the semester is nearly over. which is good. because this has been my least favorite semester so far. and i really liked school until now. ok, i didn't love every class. but i liked a few. last semester i loved 3 classes-literature, philosopy, and music. this semester i don't love at all 3 classes: literature, anthropology, and linguistics. but next semester i should love more classes. cuz im taking an american novel 1850-1950 and the professor got rave reviews and i love 20th cent american fiction, so i think it will be awesome. i'm also deciding between a dostoevsky/tolstoy class and a 20th century russian lit class. i think the 20th cent will win out, a) because i love nabokov and am curious to read things like the master and margarita and dr. zhivago & b) because tolstoy/dostoevsky is at 9 a.m. and i really messed up on my 9 a.m. class this semester it's just tooo early especially because of the commute. so those are my two lit classes for next semester. and im going to take art humanities, and another req science, ugh:(. and one or two creative writing classes. speaking of which i really liked my creative writing class this semester. there were a bunch of bright kids in the class and a couple of strong writers. and my instructor was pretty cool. check him out: adam berlin. he has two novels out.
anyways, so it seems i've come back into focus after a long bout of out-of-focusness. and i read a novel, finally. i read ethan fromme. i thought it was really good. not awesome. but a good book. and it was short. very short. big plus. extra big plus, in fact.
and now im writing my milton paper. which i am late on. and its annoying because we have 50 odd questions about the man. and frankly, while i am quite ready to give him all the honor he deserves, i don't think any piece of literature should ever be so long. and neither should any report on a man. it's just wrong.
i think that's all i have to say, for now.
i cant wait for the week to be over .and then i go back to the Forward! hooray! it's lots of fun working there. and if i get my byline in the paper again and some $ that will be awesome.
i think some things are overrated. like thinking. intelligence. smarts.
also seriousness.
probably humor is not overrated. but i need a humor boost.
apparently my humor, or what i have of it, comes through in my writing. or so say my wonderful workshop-mates. they find my plays really funny. that could just be the subject.
oh a piece i wrote for YU's Commentator got blogged twice. that makes me feel uber-cool. also, my fashion piece for the Forward got onto nextbook. which makes me feel good because my name was on the same page as Christopher Hitchens and Amos Oz. that feels cool. my simchat torah article also got blogged and created a whole storm. funny.
ok, so much for an update.