February has certainly gotten off to a cold and snowy start here in C-town, Illinois, as it sounds like it has back in Utah too! It was wonderful to have a free day today when I could sleep in and get everything done here at the apartment that I've needed to do for the last few weeks. It was also really nice that I didn't have to be anywhere today--because the snow kept coming all night, and we ended up with about eight inches outside. I decided to venture over to Wal Mart for a minute earlier today, but I found that this time I had to enter my car from the passenger side because the snow drift on the driver's side was too high :-) Luckily Stryder drives well in snow, so we made it there and back safely. Other than the quick trip out, I've just been doing homework, cleaning, writing book reports, writing paper proposals, doing finances, vacuuming, and cooking veggies to go with Aly's pasta this evening. I have a whole heap of work due on Monday, so I've been trying to get most of it out-of-the-way so that I can have a fun weekend with Greg. Tomorrow we'll be going to St. Louis to celebrate his birthday (but we'll have to watch out for the Mardi Gras crowd--supposedly there is going to be a big parade tomorrow), and then on Sunday after church I'll go up to Athens with him for a Super Bowl party at the home of his boss.
One of the assignments that is due on Monday is a paper proposal for Dr. Barnhart's 19th Century Social and Cultural History in America Class. He has assigned us to write a 20-page research paper on a topic of our choice, but it seems a little overwhelming with all of the other 20-page research papers we have to write this semester! So, I am taking the advice of many of my past teachers who have said that in grad. school you have to find ways to double-dip--in other words, find ways to make assignments count for more than one class. Back in the day when I was in Dr. Richard's American Slavery class at BYU, I wrote a paper (which I thought was really good) about an abolitionist named Elijah Lovejoy who was killed in Illinois in 1837. It just so happens that one of the topics we're discussing in Dr. Barnhart's class is the abolitionist movement, and so I think I'm going to adapt and add to my Elijah Lovejoy paper for this class. I figure that when you write a 28-page paper for something, you might as well use it for something else too :-) Elijah Lovejoy is going to save me--if it weren't for the paper about him, I don't think I would survive this semester!
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