Classes in full swing!

Preface: 

Blake is phenomenal- I should have read "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" years ago. It only took about twenty minutes max to inhale the thing, but it was brilliant. This week, however, is Wordsworth. At risk of total Romanticist blasphemy... I've never been a big fan, and have fallen asleep at every other attempt. At least there's some Coleridge mixed in! What's really got my wheels turning though are the concepts in our Literary Editing class. Are literary works (as Marx and today McGann seem to say) works of society as a whole? Just instinctively, I hate the idea... of course society affects the author, but individual genius plays a much larger role! *fizzle* You get it.

However, what with all that reading and thinking to get done, I'm just going to sum up this past week in a series of charming bite size moments/things I learned (Essentially, an all-highlights entry). ^_^ Enjoy:

~Jessica after dinner one night, gave us all a brief psych test she had learned in class. Basically, each fill-in-the-blank question she gave us was symbolic of your inner self, etc. One of the questions, for example, was "You go hunting in the woods, what animal are you hunting?" After all the questions, you learn that whatever animal you answered reflects the type of significant other you go for (ie: deer = sophisticated, graceful, etc). Well, Tracy, when forced to answer instinctively, responded "turkey." As if that weren't already hilarious enough in itself, Tommy, whose first language is Chinese, quickly responded, "Perhaps he will have good taste." XD I would like to believe I was witness to his first pun in English. It was a beautiful thing.

~Speaking of Tommy, this past weekend we also took Tommy out for a shopping spree. Alright. Tommy is from China, about 5'11'' and approximately... 130lbs (seriously). He is potentially the most adorable creature on the planet-- his favorite food is strawberries. He also possesses magnificent cheek bones and PERFECT lips (which he claims to be embarrassed by). However, although he dresses fine, I swear on my life, he wears the EXACT SAME SWEATER every single freaking day. It is a nice sweater, but we're tired of seeing it.

**This sweater. EVERY DAY.

So we gave him a makeover. 

OH. SNAP. Apparently there was a sexy, raging hipster buried under that freaking sweater :D

~In China, apparently lunch is the big meal of the day- dinner is more of a light snack. I now feel slightly less guilty about taking advantage of their delicious generosity in the evenings... 

~Tracy, while "softening" the butter for our dinner, decided to leave the aluminum wrapping on when she tossed it in the microwave. Next thing I hear, "umm... hey Jess?" I turn around and FLAMES. Literally. Flames in the microwave. Fortunately, we were both completely dumbfounded  calm and handled it perfectly- no fire alarms went off, and the fire extinguished itself.  

~Adesewa, Tracy, and I were doing the girl talk thing, when the subject of moronic girls who claim they can't live without their boyfriend of seven or eight months came up. In response, Adesewa tossed out a nifty Nigerian saying: "If you kill yourself over one man, a thousand men will walk over your grave."

~Tracy made egg tarts! http://en.christinesrecipes.com/2009/03/cantonese-egg-tarts-recipe.html

Oh wow, soooo good. I need to make these for Christmas! Earlier that evening as well, Joel made us dinner. As it turns out, his room is ridiculously clean and he can cook like a wizard. 

~Flawed assumptions: "Oh, ok, cool, I can just use that massive, ancient, cathedral-looking building there as a landmark." *walk ten minutes, pass fifteen more equally epic buildings at every street corner* "Ah. Aaaaaaand I'm lost."