You're my sweet charade

today, in english class, (well, all week, really) we learned about poe. good ol' ed. and we read the raven, and the bells, and the house of usher. goodness how INTENSE they are! i felt extremely uncomfortable, i'm honestly not a fan of those types of self-refelection literarature (the horror ones, the ones that make you squirm while reading such a dramatic plot). so anyway, we needed to write an epitaph for him. what would one say that could fit on a gravestone to describe edgar allen poe?
well, heres the list i made.
"Poe, a romantic madman."
"Poe, a romantic raven who moved literary mountians."
"Here lies the Raven. 1809-1849. Edgar Allen Poe, Nevermore."
hmm, what do you think? i wonder what it REALLY says on his gravestone. or, was he even buried?

i dont know. either way. the fall of the house of usher- however amazing (literary-wise) and revolutionary- is not one that i plan on reading again.

i like prosey things, yes, but ones that reflect on areas of "self" that aren't quite so dark and dreary. which allows me to proceed to my next area of rambling... jack kerouac. an eccentric, bohemian genius, kerouac took the world by storm with his transcendent ideas. and i love him for it. which is why i am doing a project on him for english class, and cant wait to begin reading the biographies and books of letters i picked up at the library yesterday! i know, who hangs out at the library after school, right? me, just that once. anyway, i also have to read a book about herman melville. yay horay? not quite. though hes an interesting man, (ofcourse) im just completely un motivated to learn about a man whose works ive never read nor name ever seen. i suppose that could be turned into motivation itself, yet, theres really nothing compelling me to WONDER ABOUT HIM. i wonder about kerouac.

anyway, i suppose i'll start reading those now.

OH YEAH!! wait!!! hang onnnn!!!!!
i passed in my course-selection sheet for next year, senior year. and the classes listed are as follows:
English:
H English 12
H Journalism
H Contemporary Lit
Yearbook

History:
Political Science
H Psychology

Science:
H Enviornmental
H Marine and Coastal

Math:
H Pre- Calc

Foregin Language:
AP Spanish

Art:
Studio Art

we needed to have 2 english classes, 2 history classes, 1 science OR 1 math, and the rest could be anything. i decided i would be a good girl and try to make a good transcript. so i signed up for 4 english classes (because i like english and its probably my strongest class), 2 history classes, 2 sciences (because i love enviornment/ecology stuff) AND a math (just so it looks good, even though i hated my one week of pre-calc last year, i dont konw if i should take it honors or not... ehh...), and i signed up for AP Spanish because i adore spanish and want to become really fluent, and i talked to my teacher about my chance of getting in and she said there was a good possibility and that she will propose my "enrollment" when the department meets, and i also signed up for Studio Art because i LOVE art- i was going to take a painting class as well as a sculpture class however i decided to just go with studio because it allows me to do pretty much anything i want and make my own deadlines :)

i am SO excited to find out how my schedule comes out ahhh. i really hope in to all the englishs and the sciences.

we shall see!

ok, im going to go take a nap i think, instead of reading. im tiired.