Help!

This is an unabashed solicitation for assistance.

I'm taking a class entitled, "History of the U.S. through Music." It is a complete and utter waste of my time. The instructor is certifiable, and I'm not learning jack from the class, but I need the credit to finish up my minor so I can graduate in a month and a half.

Here's my problem: I have to write a paper for this class. And I'm absolutely clueless what to write about. I'm drawing a blank. I've got nothing. Nada. Zip.

So I am now literally begging anyone who will read this for ideas. If you had to write a paper for a class called "History of the U.S. through Music," what would you write?

I'm even willing to turn this into a contest, the winner of which will receive a coveted North Dakota trinket of some sort or another. Now who wouldn't want tourist crap from a state you'll probably never visit? A giant pencil? A snow globe? A refrigerator magnet?

Please, throw me a bone. I'm dying here.

Comments

I've only got three short comments today:

1. More snow today. Ugh. I'm beginning to doubt spring will ever come.

2. A monologue I submitted a long time ago to Int'l Center for Women Playwrights is going to be published in their annual book, "Singular Voices."

3. We bought a new bed and it was delivered today, and it is so awesome! We haven't had a new bed since I was pregnant with my daughter, 12 years ago. I can't wait to sleep on it!

Spring in North Dakota = Blizzard

I love winter, but c'mon. I'm so ready for spring. We've had blizzard all night. First freezing rain, then wind and snow. So far over 6 inches and it's supposed to keep snowing for a couple more days.

The snow was pretty close to gone before yesterday. Sure, our basement was leaking, but at least we were making progress toward spring!

BSG - The End

I don't know how many of you are fans of the most recent incarnation of Battlestar Galactica on the SciFi channel - I am. Tonight is the 2-hour series ender. It's beyond me how they're going to wrap everything up in 2 hours, unless they plan not to wrap it up at all so that they can go on to make movies like Stargate SG-1 has done.

The BSG journey has been a rocky one. They've taken ridiculously long hiatuses (hiati?), and the story has taken some strangely skewed detours that really haven't added to the overall plot at all.

But because we started watching it and liked it at the beginning, we have faithfully watched it, whenever they deigned to run new episodes, and now we will watch the end so that we can hopefully have the satisfaction of closure.

We used to be big SciFi Friday fans, and loved Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, and BSG. Now all 3 will be gone. *sniff*

Okay, so call me a geek. It's true.

I'll let you know if the series finale was any good!

Now it's off to make pizza, then the warm up entertainment is Sarah Connor Chronicles, then Battlestar!

TTYL!

Pitch Party

I don't know if any of the rest of you also participated in the Pitch Party held over at Book Roast, yesterday, but it was pretty fun. I learned about it at Gumbo Writer.

So I wrote my very first pitch ever for my WIP, and actually made the fave list of one of the participating editors. Awesome!

But what I think was the best part was the fact that so many writers participated. It was wonderful to read all the different ideas writers are coming up with. It gives me hope for all those times when I stare at a blank page without any idea how to fill it up. I enjoyed reading the interaction with editors, seeing how other people pitch their stories, and sharing comments with other writers.

Plus I got a major part of my art history research paper done yesterday, which made me very, very happy. And I got accepted in an MFA program.

So, it was a real warm fuzzy kinda day.

This morning, I got a call from a realtor friend who said she has someone who wants to buy our house. I don't know if any of you remember, but we spent almost all of last year trying to sell our house in a dead small town market and finally resigned ourselves to staying here for at least another year. We took the house off the market and got ourselves in the "stay here" mindset. Now we've got a dilemma - sell or not? Of course the instant we don't want to sell someone wants to buy. Sheesh. But I suppose we could look at it as all things in their proper time, right?

Now all I need is a call asking me to interview for the writing job I applied to, and all things will be right with the universe!

In Like Flynn

Well, I had my interview this morning with the MFA selection committee and (drum roll, please)...they offered me admission into the program!!!!!!

I'm so freakin' excited!

Now all I have to do is figure out how in the world I'm going to pay for it.

Gulp.

A Gaelic Blessing

I don't have anything specific to talk about today, but in the spirit of upcoming St. Paddy's day, here's an Irish blessing for you:

Like the warmth of the sun,

And the light of the day,

May the luck of the Irish

Shine bright on your way.

As a genealogy addict, I can honestly say I have some Irish blood (a little - but my blood is mostly English, Swedish, Scottish, and Hungarian. If I search back far enough there's a bunch of French and Russian too).

How about the rest of you...any other Irish blood among you?