
I feel like I've been living in Lord of the Rings all semester.
I'm taking a great Senior Seminar class on Tolkien, Lewis, and Medieval Literature. I know that sounds a little random, since neither Tolkien nor Lewis are Medieval authors, but they were both Medieval scholars and wrote a lot on Medieval literature. So in addition to reading works like Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,and Pearl, I had to read the entire Lord of the Rings series in the first half of the semester.
And this is just for one class.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really loving the books, but I feel like all I do these days is read and work. Even when I'm sleeping, I dream about Frodo and Sam and Gollum and Merry and Pippin and all the other characters that I'm getting to know so well.
Unfortunately I got a little behind over Valentine's Day/President's Day weekend, and I'm just nearing the end when I was supposed to be done earlier this week. *sigh* I even forgot to eat dinner last night because I was too busy cheering Frodo and Sam on as they reached Mt. Doom.
So that's pretty much my life right now.

Then on Monday, I got a phone call telling me that I had won! I won a free Mary Kay facial and a gift basket with a Mary Kay gift card, a Gloria's Little Italy gift card, candy, and other goodies! I'm getting my facial on Saturday and I invited a few friends to do it with me. I'm pretty excited!

I put a couple countdowns on my Facebook profile:
- My birthday: 9 days
- Aaron's birthday: 51 days
- Graduation: 56 days
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1: 266 days
3 comments:
you are fantastic, Erika!
Winning things is the best!! Good luck with the rest of the semester!
Its still 266 days away??!?!?! I don't think that I can wait that long.....
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