You'll Turn The Light Off When I'm Halfway Across!

I started Fitness for Life tonight. Lets just say, its not going to be an enjoyable three nights a week for the next 12 weeks. Also, if anyone has a textbook they'd like to let me borrow for a little while, that would be much appreciated. I would much rather spend $35 on the special edition dark knight than on a text book that I'll only use for three months.

I found this neat-o "Top 25 Best Batman Comics" list. Surprisingly all of the books that I have read were on this list. I've read Hush, The Killing Joke, The Long Halloween, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. I really don't understand how The Dark Knight Returns came in second, because that was not a very good comic. The entire book I couldn't decide if the new "Robin" was a boy or a girl. I still don't know. I think it's a girl though, just for the record. I didn't particularly like that graphic novel, mostly because it was vile and the villains were not the traditional villains. The storyline wasn't very interesting, and it was the first comic I haven't been able to get into at all. The other books I read were very good though. (Especially the Loeb comics. The Long Halloween and Hush were definitely the best that I've read).

I've been working on my "Letter About Literature" for about three days now. Every second I have that I can work on it, I take. What I'm wondering is, where is the line drawn for constructive criticism? When does it seize to be effective and just become embarrassing? I have my parents go over what I write to look for conventional errors and things that don't make sense. My dad has taken up marking all the sentences that he feels are "awkward"; all the words that don't seem right. Isn't that my voice? Maybe I intended to make those sentences awkward. Maybe those words had the meaning I wanted them to have; they portrayed the message I wanted them too. Is that bad? Is that criticism still constructive? I'm not sure.

I guess I might as well talk about Thanksgiving. This year my grandparents came over, and thanks (ha ha, thanks!) to my preparations we had a meal several courses long, and, I might add, all of them were delicious (except for the turkey and turkey gravy. I didn't actually eat those things so I have no idea if they were good or not. Probably not, because even when I was eating meat I didn't like turkey). We started the meal with these "Mini Pumpkin Sage Balls" which were dipped in hot green pepper sauce. They were so yummy! I was really surprised, and happy that they turned out so well. Next we had our "palate cleanser": a homemade sorbet. This was also very good. After that we had Chestnut soup with Marsala mushrooms. This was probably the highlight. It was delicious: the mushrooms paired so well with the Marsala wine. Oh yeah, somewhere in there we had a salad too. Then we moved on to the main course. We had cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, turkey, rolls, and gravy (veggie and turkey). That was good too. No one really had room for dessert, but we would have had pumpkin pie and Apple Cake.

HAHA XOXO