The readings I liked best: the Native American readings - well, the shorter ones. The only unit I was disappointed in was the Japanese unit because of the lack of kitsune stories.
The reading diary strategy that worked bested for me: working ahead with a full bottle of wine.
Overall balance: I loved it - just the right amount of reading (all of which were wonderful) and writing. The commenting was harder because interacting with other people is hard - especially if their writing isn't the best and you have to kinda force yourself to read it. (I read a lot of fanfiction so I'm a bit of snob when it comes to what I read. I'm working on it.)
I'm proud of a lot of my storytellings - but I'm most proud of my four part rabbit primer covered in a few of the FLW posts. I shared it with one of the other volunteers out at Heartland who has been working with rabbits a lot longer than I have and she said that I did a great job - which is incredibly validating.
One of my main take aways from this course: plan ahead! Then stick to that plan! I'm pretty comfortable with my writing style, but the corrections and tips and I got on my storybook were really helpful!
I don't even want to go into why I haven't updated this blog this entire week. I told myself I was going to get ahead and stay ahead in this class to avoid putting it on the back burner to my other classes... yeah, that didn't happen.
On top of all of the craziness that is the end of the semester - this has been an insane week for movie trailers.
First, you have the trailer for "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
I'm just. And everything about this movie is going to be awesome (not a popular opinion, I know, but here we are). I'm enjoying Sulky and Cynical Bruce Wayne, Super Scary Superman, and Over The Top Drama Lex Luthor. Also, Jeremy Irons.
...and then later that day, the first ever trailer for "I Saw The Light."
And honestly, 2016 is just going to be rough year.
"I Saw The Light" was originally supposed to be released on November 27th - however, it didn't perform as well at the festivals as people were hoping, so they pushed it to March 2016. Which I'm not here for.
I've looking forward to this movie for what seems like ages and I'm just ready to hear Tom Hiddleston sing to me about his honky tonk blues. However, if I hear one more person say that Tom's southern accent is better than Benedict Cumberbatch's from "August Osage County" I'm afraid there's gonna be some yelling.
(Because Hank is from Alabama - and Tom sounds like it; Benedict's character was from northern Oklahoma - and he sounded like it. People were expecting a stereotypical southern accent - which is not what northern Okies sound like, nevermind the fact that Oklahoma's not a southern state anyway. If you say it is - you're wrong.)
