The Scarlet Letter!

I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to be writing about yet, but it's been a week and a day, so I thought I should update everyone again :) Even thought I'm pretty sure no one reads this but me.  It keeps my thoughts in order :)

I could write about the fact that Mike and I kind of want to go to Sweden.  And I want to go to Germany.  And I want to be done with college.  Or the fact that I should be doing homework!  Or the fact that I have nothing remotely horrible to complain about right now, yet I feel like I need to complain about something.  German is stressful, as always, but I always seem to underestimate my skill, at least according to Mike.  He tells me constantly how amazing I am at German and I have many A's to remind me, but I still just don't seem confident in my German skills.  Especially since I have an oral presentation about something that doesn't seem to have 10-15 minutes worth of information that's on Monday. 

I'm really excited for this weekend because Mike's parents might be coming up!  Which means free food, good conversation, and a nice change of pace for the semester.  I miss seeing them and I know Mike does too :) Although, chances are it'll make me miss my family and friends, but it'll be worth it.  I've been working my butt off with reading, papers, and homework lately, so I deserve some fun this weekend.  It seems as though weekend doesn't imply FUN anymore, rather 3 days when I have to catch up on reading assignments or write papers or work on presentations.  Which is definitely not fun.

I feel like I've gone from a studious student (redundant, I know) to slacker, and now I'm back to studious student again.  It's kind of nice considering I have 2.5 more years left of college, but it's kind of a bummer too because of my lack of fun.  Although I have to say, I do enjoy my classes and what we're learning which is nice.  Just today I texted Mike how much I love English class sometimes because sometimes I really do!  Hence, I'm an English major :)

We're officially done with The Scarlet Letter in English and I'm glad to be done reading the millions of critical essays about it, but I'm bummed that we're done reading and talking about it.  If I ever get my graduate degree, I'm going to research and write critical essays about The Scarlet Letter.  It's amazing.  And interesting and weird and dark.  AND my blog title, if you haven't noticed, is The Life and Writings of a Scarlet Letter.  This doesn't mean I'm an adulterer or anything horrible like that!  It's a pun on my name being Ayla, starting with an A, and the fact that I love the book, and the fact that no one is perfect because Hester made a mistake and was wrongly outcasted because of it.  (Yes, I know that it was a big deal for Puritans, and it's a big deal in general, but she was treated pretty badly).  Anyway, enough for now :) Thanks for listening!  Or reading! lol

Tschuβi!