November 2003
by V.E. on November 30th, 2003
filed under evewasframed, personal, school, spirituality
November 19, 2003:
Hello hello all. It’s been a while, hasn’t it now? I’ve been in college for a while now… that is, since August 29… I think that’s the right date. Anyway, I’ve gone from sad, scared little freshman to campus savvy college student. In a matter of two and one half months. Not bad, for adjusting to an incredible workload and living with thirty-five other people doing the same thing. It’s made for an interesting time, I must say. So anyway: in one of my classes, Reading and Writing Poetry (my freshman seminar and covers the writing requirement to graduate… if I manage to pass), I was introduced to the idea of editing poetry. That is, writing the poem, putting it a away for a while, then reading it over again and changing some things to make the poem sound better. Now, I know that seems obvious to a lot of people, especially since no one would ever write one draft of anything else and then just leave it like that. It’s not good enough the first time, unless you’re a genius, and there aren’t many of those around, so it’s likely that you know what I’m talking about. Ahem… back on topic. So I discovered the editing of poetry. Now, I know my teacher likes it a lot, and I definitely see the benefit of it, but I think he over emphasises it. I was looking at the poetry I’ve written that’s on this site and noticed it’s certainly not to my potential. That said, I’m in the process (VERY slowly, mind you) of replacing some of the crappy stuff in the Writing section with stuff that’s better and making some of the stuff on there that’s decent excellent. But that’s only for my own writing. And mostly at this point poetry only. SO, in that case, expect some changes in my poetry… yes, I want to change it. Poetry, for those of you against this sort of thing, may be art, but like all other forms of art, it is essentially fluid.
November 11, 2003:
Yes, so many things this edition. First, Samhain came and went and this year I actually planned out and performed a ritual rather than “being spontaneous” like I was last year… which really means I wasn’t organised enough to get anything together before the High Sabbat. Ahem, needless to say, it was a success, so that’s a good thing. Secondly, yesterday was my mother’s birthday. She’s… another year old (yea, you actually thought I was going to tell you, didn’t you?), so if you know her, give her a “Happy Birthday” out in California, will you please?
