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By Shanna, October 15, 2009 8:38 pm

It’s true. I can’t help it. I’m kinda a weirdo sometimes.

In college I took Greek as my foreign language…and not modern Greek, Ancient Greek. Why? Because I was a borderline geek and took Latin in highschool. I was never stellar in Greek and I was pretty sure my professor hated me, but I still loved the class. Even though my ability to read & translate Greek have fallen by the wayside, I do still “write” in Greek. I write my notes, especially personal-just getting-my-thoughts-on-paper notes by writing the greek equilveant for a roman letter (or as best as it can fit) so the word “all” I would write alpha lambda lambda and so on. It makes me feel less conscious about getting my feelings and thoughts out in public because who is really going to take the time to decode my stuff?

I’m sure when I’m famous and have gone crazy, people will go bonkers for these greekish notes.

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By Shanna, May 18, 2009 5:38 pm

I was looking over my Shelfari.com account (it basically is a virtual bookshelf of everything you’ve read or will admit to reading) and I realized a lot of books I read in college I don’t really remember or even could tell you what they were about or am curious to see what my take on it is now years later. So I’ve decided to re-read  some of them.

List:

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Candide by Voltaire
Seamus Heaney poetry
Milton

I’ve also decided I need to read some Margaret Atwood – back in college my writing professor who encouraged me in my writing told me that my writing reminded him of her style.  And I read a story by her one and I liked it but was scared to read more outta fear I’d hate it .