Coworkers

I was writing away at my draft, as always, on my lunch break when a coworker approached me. He asked me if I was writing in my diary, journal, secret observations I make of everything and everyone around me. I answered no, this was my notebook. Eventually, I told him I was writing a story. He asked me if it was a vampire story, and I answered him no, it was more like a Lord of the Rings story.

He saw how much I had written so far in the notebook (I probably have less than fifteen pages left in said notebook) and asked me how many pages it was. I explained it was almost three hundred pages, typed and dependent on the font and that had reached past 70,000 words.

He seemed to be getting more impressed with every answer I told him. He said, “So you’re writing a book. A novel!” He was excited and it made me feel immensely great about myself.

He wanted a first edition signed copy, that he himself would not read because he’s not a fan of reading. Then, he instructed that I should put it in audiobook form so he could enjoy it as well.

“Don’t you play flute? Or trumpet?”

“You mean clarinet?”

“Yeah! You should make a theme song for it, once it becomes a big, theatrical production!”

“Interestingly enough, I already have.”

Eventually I had to tell this friend of mine who knew nothing of the actual plot, development, or characters, “Let’s focus on finishing it first.”

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Changing Majors

Often, I like to introduce myself as an English major.  This has changed, as of April 2nd.  I am expected to graduate Saturday, May 11th with an Associate of Art degree.  To stay wtih my major in English would not have allowe dme to graduate in time, a fact I've been pulling my hair out over for weeks now.  I'm not sure how to explain it, but my evaluation form told me I lacked the necessary literature courses, even though I enrolled in practically every literature course available to me--British, World, and American.  But my evaluation form told me I neeed to either take Survey of World Literature 1 or Survey of World Literature 2.

My French professor was kind enough to do a Topics of World Literature class with me, where I need to read a few Greek plays and write a paper.  But then I learned that the Topics course wouldn't satisfy my literature requirements.  So I attempted to submit a substitution form.  Then after some research on my part, I feared that the courses would not be comaptible with each other.  So I did some comparing.  I found that if I were to change my major to Foreign Language, I would have mroe than enough credits already to graduate (62 out of 60).  Remaining with English would only give me 59 out of 60.

So after much deliberating and agnozing, I become a Foreign Language major.

It is an odd feeling, because the language that helped me reach that is French, my least favorite and the one I'm most awful at.

I've not really yet considered how this will affect my future pursuits.  If I want to keep this major for my BA degree, I think I would like to focus with German and maybe Latin.  I may change it back to an English major.  Someone suggester for me to get a teacher's certificate so I will be able to teach foreign language.  I would imagine I would need more educational requirements to do that.  Besides, I think myself not sutied to teach French.

In either case, I know I will graduate in about a month with my Associates.