Thursday, May 3, 2007

Last class blog

hopefully i will keep up with this after i don't have to anymore. it's good to be forced to write a little. even if i haven't had much time and i've recycled a lot of my older writing...maybe sometime i will get inspired. anyway, since i started with cummings, i will now end with him-


who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

My last blog was a liar

Ok, fine it was me that lied. But, still my last blog was not remotely literary.

Oh, that somehow reminded me of my FAVORITE children's book from when I was very young. I want to be a children's librarian so this actually is totally relevant. Yay me, getting it right on the second to last day. Ok, well the book was called, "The a Monster at the End of this Book" it is a sesame street book and Grover is the narrator (look at me fancying up a children's book with my literary knowledge...) Anyway, I loved it as a kid because Grover gets scared of the monster and he tries really hard to get you not to turn the pages, he begs, he boards it up, he puts up bricks and cement, but obviously you can still turn the page. And, then at the end it turns out (spoiler alert) that Grover is actually the monster at the end of the book. Hilarious. Children's books at their finest. I used to read this book to campers when I worked in a camp and they loved it too, I would ask if they thought I was strong enough to turn the page with the bricks, and did we really want to see the monster, and they always did.

Good times.


You can view it's amazon page here: http://www.amazon.com/Monster-This-Book-Birds-Favorites/dp/0375805613 (now I am officially an ex Barnes and Noble employee. They have a website too...)

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

something literary

I feel as if my posts have gotten pretty off track with the literary thing. I mean there's certainly been writing but I don't think I've read a single non-school book since I started this blog. And I really don't think I've written anything new to post here. But luckily I used to have motivation to write.
I must say I am excited that this semester is almost over. Partly because I get a month of not doing an enormous amount of school work (seriously, this program gives A LOT of work) but also because when I finish, and let's assume I will pass, I will actually have credits towards my MLS. This I believe will do a lot for my psyche. Ha, I just wrote psycho. I wonder what Freud would say about that...anyway, I will feel accomplished. And, that's always a nice feeling. It's the feeling I used to get when I finished reading a good book. Or writing something.

And, on that note, I will actually have time to read a little something once the semester is over too. And, I would really like that.