If you read the earlier post, you know that I'm back in grad school to finish my M.A.

What classes am I taking, you ask?

You'll all be glad to know that my two seminar topics have amazing relevance to my current career as a junior high English teacher. The first seminar boldly proclaims its message without omitting any extraneous details -- Seminar in the 19th Century English Novel: Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte. That's right! I'm not just reading Emma, no ma'am! Nor am I just reading Emma and Mansfield Park, no no! I'm reading Emma, Mansfield Park, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre! If my eyeballs can survive this month without being forcibly self-extricated using a spoon, I count this month a raging success. Needless to say, I'm not exactly pumped about this half of the class.

However, I've found that I need to be forced to read novels out of my interest field, and I usually end up loving them. So far, I really enjoy the professor, and I love the eccentrics that work on a M.A. at GaSou.

The second half of the seminar promises to be much more exciting (for me, anyway!) -- Seminar: Flannery O'Connor. Now I adore O'Connor's work; she's long been a personal favorite. Plus, she's distinctly a Southern author, perhaps the prototypical Southern author, and I am more interested in Southern American than I am Southern British, 19th century style.

Next update? I'll let you know if the eyeballs make it.