Spring 2007 and Interim

I really must say I fell like I should just delete my blog seeing as I don't post that much. Hopefully though, since summer is starting officially for me tomorrow after my exam maybe I will post more regularly. Spring semester ended three weeks ago and I started interim after that. I had to take one class that is only offered during interim. Spring semester ended with the regular As and Bs report card. I began to get worried toward the middle of the semester about a class and wondered if I would have a passing grade. It's amazing what attendance does to a struggling grade. The semester was pretty productive though. I wrote some short stories that I would like to make into a longer story. I had a creative writing instructor that really stressed the whole publishing aspect of writing and so I made the goal of at least starting the process of getting published before I graduate. By the way, I am expected to graduate in December so Hooray!!! This summer I plan to write until I come up with something I feel comfortable with sending to a publisher. I've written a lot of short stories in my creative writing classes and want to revise this summer and send those off and hopefully one will get published and I will start getting my name out there. One of my CW classes was a class on poetry. We ended up just writing a lot of our poetry and workshopping (critiquing) some of our own and so I discovered my poetry side. I wrote a couple that were good, but I don't think I will be pursuing writing poetry. I think I will stick with prose. In another CW class I ended up writing what I think is the worst story I have ever written in my whole entire life. I had a good idea but it got out of control and so I trashed it.
My interim class has been really interesting. We talked (or took notes while our teacher lectured rather) about some books and then we watched an adaptation of it. We read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Last of the Mohicans, The Scarlet Letter, and we finished up with The Great Gatsby. I really love The Great Gatsby. Ever since I read it in high school I have absolutely been in love. When we were done talking about it in high school I went to the local Movie Gallery, which was about 30 minutes up the road, and got the movie with Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, and Sam Waterston. It is a really good movie. We ended up watching it in class yesterday and today. I fell in love again, especially with young Robert Redford. Really he was hot. A little old for me though.