Some pretty neat things have happened this week.  First, the author Suzan-Lori Parks visited and gave a lecture on Monday.  She writes plays.  She won the Pulitzer for drama in 2002 for her play Topdog/Underdog.  During her lecture she told us about her life, how she became a writer, and she gave us some advice about life and writing.  I bought one of her plays.  I’ll read it and tell you about it.

            Tuesday night there was a screening of a documentary called Indoctrinate-U.  It was about diversity issues at universities in America.  The focus of the film dealt with diversity of thought, with discussion centering on the imbalance between conservatism and liberalism in academia.  The argument was that conservative thought is not as well represented or respected as liberal thought in universities.  There was some pretty good discussion after the film. 

            I didn’t go to sleep Tuesday night: I had to stay up to finish a lab report for Biology.  Lucian and I moved down to the dining room to do our work at around three in the morning.  The first thing we did was watch thirty minutes of 80’s cartoon introductions on YouTube.  While Lucian worked on his abstract algebra homework, I searched the internet for video clips of an awesome movie called Rescuers Down Under, as well as information on a series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles books Lucian and I read and loved when we were younger.  I started to work on my lab report at about six in the morning.  I finished at around 12:30 in the afternoon.  Then I went to lab.  Then I came back to the house and slept for eight hours.

            I get to go with my English class to Chicago in about seventeen hours.  I’m excited.  I’ll charge the battery in my camera so I can take some pictures.