Seriously Late...

If you guys think you guys were late, then I most certainly am tardy to the “party”, since it has taken me forever to post.  At this point, I kinda feel like I’m a spectator at Truman Capote’s infamous masquerade ball.  Looking, and appreciating, but not exactly participating.  Hence, I, like the others before me, do also solemnly “swear” (*note the quotation marks) that I will be much more prudent in posting because I definitely want an “A” by midterm.

Some facts about me…I overuse commas, quotation marks, and parenthesis when writing.  See example above, and I’m sure below.  I am a senior at UIC, hoping to graduate this December. I am an English major for the simple fact that I love to read and because prior to majoring in English I felt like I was at the top of that iceberg that Urrea drew on the board this past Thursday.  In other words, I did a lot of surface reading with little understanding of what laid underneath.

Something else I like to do …I love writing letters to companies to tell them what I think about their products.  Case in point, this morning I went to Walgreens and noticed that they changed the formatting of their weekly sales paper. I thought that was cool, so I wrote to them and told them that.  It’s kind of weird that I do this because I never feel the urge to comment on anything that I have read or bought on the internet. Go figure.    

Another quick fact…I am a magazine “whore”, who because I have read tons of different magazines ever since I was able to read (My fave is Vanity Fair), I now know a little bit about a lot of things. Enough to vaguely recognize familiar names, places, references but not enough to have a deep conversation about them (I also hold my poor memory accountable). Believe me, it’s very frustrating.  Especially since my dream has always been to be on Jeopardy.  Oh, well, I guess I will never be able to admire Alex Trebek’s fake tan up close. C’est la vie.   

Well, I think I have imbedded this post with enough parenthesis for now, so I will leave you.  I will in the next few days post about what I think about John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, and Joan Didion.  In three separate posts, of course (gotta get that A )

Veronica