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I finished reading the four short stories that are going to be work shopped tomorrow for my fiction class. They were pretty good, and I am glad that this group did not write more than ten page stories.

I was slightly annoyed that one author used a metaphor in their story that was strikingly similar to one that I had used earlier in the semester. To their credit, it wasn’t exactly the same, and was used in a different context. Still, it’s not a very common metaphor to use. The professor actually made a remark to me that it was one of the most original metaphors that she had ever read.

Maybe this is why I am aggrivated. Maybe the author didn’t even make the connection, and thought it up on their own. Stranger things have happened. I once heard that everything has already been written and already been done. This is a depressing concept. If everything has already been done, what is the use of writing?

I’ve finished reading “The Sun Also Rises” by Hemingway, as well as “As I Lay Dying” by Faulkner. I’ve reviewed “Babylon Revisited”, “The Waste Land”, “The Other Two,” and the Robert Frost poetry. In short, I am tired.

My procrastination lead to a large amount of reading in a short amount of time. The fact that I read each work quickly has most likely taken away some of my understanding and appreciation of the works. That is not to say that I skimmed over them. It’s just that  I think that literature should be read at a leaisurely pace.

I am tired of cramming. I promised myself at the beginning of the semester that I would stop putting things of until last minute. I am sure that this is what a lot of students tell themselves, but I want to be better than that. I want to take as much as I can out of each class. What is the point of paying the tuition of I am not going to absorb the knowledge?

I am frustrated and tired, and have myself to blame. On the bright side, atleast I have finished the reading. It’s only halfway through the semester, so I have nest two months to make improvements. After making Dean’s List last semester I wanted to hold myself to a higher standard than I ususally do.