'81 was the year [it] hit the fan in a major way

This semester has been far more enjoyable simply because I'm not taking any more of those wretched business classes. Finance and Accounting were fascinating, but the managerial crap and the Human Resources mung were things that I've already experienced by working those five years before attending college. It was tedious. Now, however, I'm in strictly English classes. My favorite, by far, is my Children's Literature class. I don't know why I never paid any mind to the classic tales as a youth, but I'm finding some of them to be amazing. Others, nope. Here's a For Instance: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Behind the Looking Glass were very fun reads. Lewis Carol had quite the sense of humor. Many of his oddball characters spoke in such a way as to appear in riddles. Their nonsense (like that of the White King) is actually genius. The Wind in the Willows, however, I could never see reading to Olivia and her counterparts. Boring, long, and lame. One good character doesn't make up for a book-long plot of Lame. So, for those who have an interest, my recommendations for their kiddie library are thus: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Behind the Looking Glass, and The Wizard of Oz (even though it is incredibly bloody; the Tinman beheads forty wolves while the Scarecrow wrings the necks of forty crows). The books to skip: Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, and The Secret Garden. I'll admit, I loved the first twenty chapters of The Secret Garden, but then Burnet gets into a bunch of preaching about the effects of nature on the human body. It was just a little too much Christian Science being hit over my head.

Little Olivia is now convincingly sitting up. She's been able to for a while, but now she does it without all the wobbling. She stays stock still when her Wonderpets are on, but gets a little excited when toys are around and flops all over the place. Her hair is getting longer and Liz found a way to part it so that she looks less like Hitler and more like a cute little girl. She is a darling, and we love getting up in the morning to find her completely flipped around in her crib and smiling.

And for those of you wondering where my rant is, I'll let this cartoon I made catch you up on the latest things that have happened to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJClYz2_N0

Bye.