Boy, has this past month been crazy! Stressed to a T, I finally get to relax during the Thanksgiving holiday, but now that I've been back at school for a week, it's finals time. Studying is the preferred weapon of choice this weekend, though my friends Rick and Josh are holdig a party on Saturday. I already promised I'd attend. Dang.
So I'm antisocial!
I lost my voice yesterday, and I've been searching for it everywhere. It wasn't in the bathroom, the garbage, my philosophy class, and it's not in the library either! Actually, it's more like someone turned down the volume control on my voice, and now I can't speak louder than a soft murmer.
By the way, thanks for the terrific soup, Michelle and Stancie. I enjoyed it alot. In fact, I would so appreciate the recipe! I would like to eat it without wincing from a sore throat! And I think my roommate is getting tired of eating the same pasta I cook all of the time. Oh, I got an A on a term paper that I did! I was so happy! I did a report on the feminist writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. Let me see...
"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, everything else is needless, for at least twenty years of their lives."
That's one of my favorite quotes from her book, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Men actually banned their wives and daughters from reading it because poor Mary had such an unusual life, and after her death from bearing her daughter Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) her husband wrote all about her life, and her two suicide attempts, and that's why people were banned from reading it.
Perhaps the true reason it was banned was because she said things like this.
"Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner, when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood."
Boy, am I glad I live in today's world! Anyway, that's all for now!