Chapter 7 to Gift!Fic is finally up. *Performs do-ge-za* I apologize for the long wait. There were a lot of reasons--time, interest, embarrassment/nerves, not to mention just writing the first draft--but it's up. Y'all can thank eggsoversexy, since her going to Nepal is the reason why I stopped pussyfooting around with it. Sara, I adhered to mostof your edits; some things I left as they were for various reasons. I thank you in the chapter, but I'll thnak you again here for being my beta and providing me with that...interesting...link.

College is being a somewhat PITA; I have to show Uni that my AP US History score precludes me from needing to fulfill a history requirement, and that I passed a competency test for Computer Science...otherwise I will be stuck taking a history class, a comp sci class, and a math class (it's complicated). Wouldn't mind another history class, but not at the price of computer science and math. I'm double-majoring; I don't have time for classes outside Art History and Foreign Languages.

Which reminds me! I have awesome classes this semester :D

Students in Transition - All transfer students have to take this. Even the teachers admit it's a "whatever" class, and it's only 1 credit. But they've said that transfer students do have an easier time adjusting when they take the class, which will only help my GPA.

Elementary Japanese - I've been DYING for an actual Japanese class, so I jumped on this immediately. Now Fooshie and I can practice with each other (she takes a Japanese class independently, as well)!

Elementary Sanskrit - I jumped on this because their Southeast Asian studies department is small and I figured it might not be around in a different semester. I'm VERY excited about this class...the Vedas were written in Sanskrit

Venice - More accurately, History of Art in Venice. This one's exciting to me because I might be part-Venetian on my father's side (we know we are Calabrese, with Sicilian and Venetian as possibilities). Plus, the Italian Renaissance is my favorite period in history, so anything that'll teach me about is a class I wanna be in (although most of the art world was centered around Florence at that time BUT WHATEVER)

Islamic Art and Architecture - When we went to Epcot, I was dragging my mom around "Morocco" and pointing out what little I already knew about Middle Eastern art, so my inner nerd rose again and I signed up for this class. It's very different from Western art in that Islamic art is mainly non-representational; it should be interesting.

I'm also going to sign up for Intermediate French; I forgot a lot between French I and II at community college because there were years in between them, and I don't want to start forgetting French like I forgot Spanish. Uni has a teacher education program, and New Jersey gives PRAXIS exams for French, Italian, Spanish, and German, so I think I'm going to go through the teacher training program and get certified to teach French. Which, oddly enough, is what my mother wanted to do; this is cool in a "fulfilling both our dreams" sort of way. It's a thought, in any case.

What else...well, I started writing As The World Turns fic. Hope it's good! My pipe dream is that the producers stumble across it and decide that I'm so good that I should be immedaitely hired to write for ATWT. Heh. If only...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090423/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_hitler_watercolors

I don't think they're real. Hitler targetted art like that. If his regime went after paintings of cows because they were the wrong color, there's no way Hitler would ever paint "wine-colored water".

The person interviewed says he doesn't think they're fake because no one would dare, considering the backlash of stamping Hitler's name on things. Which is horseshit. Two or three years back my World Affairs class read about a convention in Iran specifically centered around denying the Holocaust. Ain't no "backlash" ever gonna stop some people from being dickholes.