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100TH POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What's really astonishing is that it took me exactly two years to write 100 of these. I wasn't diligent in my blogging until November '09, so all things considered, I'm not doing too poorly :)


I'm taking 2 summer classes and even though I don't like it, Summer courses have begun already. My Twentieth Century Lit. class is going to be ridiculous. I'm thankful that it's only 6 weeks but the amount of reading is absurd. I read a short story called, "The Blank Page" by Isak Dinesen. I was under the impression that Dinesen was a man because I figured "Isak" was like "Issac," just spelled differently. Anywho, she is a female author and upon reading "The Blank Page" for the first time for my homework assignment, I can't say I'm a fan. The short story is indeed short, and I feel like the piece is ironic because it's about a blank page, yet there's words on the page talking about the necessity of it. I hope Dr. Pringle (haha, my professor), can explain how this work is important to Modernism and Modernity. I think the "blank page", or white space is a metaphor for something, though I can't be positive yet. I think it's about words unsaid and their effect upon a culture...which would trickle into themes of modernism like "individualism v. collectivism". This is a boring 100th blog, if I've ever read one.

I am still praying for a job. I appreciate all prayers from family and friends that I'd find one, because I am desperate.


Happy Note: I am dying to read "Wuthering Heights" this summer! It is currently sitting on top of my dresser which is next to my bed. I WILL read it, if it's the last thing I do this summer! I think my motivation is going to be, I can't blog unless I've read some of it and I have to talk about it in my blog. If I never blog again, you all will know why.

<3 rachel