Hello, Tuesday April 25th!
You are considered the perfect day because you are not too hot, and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. At least in some areas of the world.
For once the weather actually held true to prediction here. Aside from some light breezes happening all day, the day was considered quite splendid. Ah yes, this day will forever be memorialized if for only that scene in Miss Congeniality.
All that aside, it's nearing the end of the spring semester with only 3 weeks left. Some classes start to weigh you down with lots of homework, tests, and final essays to write. And some realize you have already mentally checked out and are just letting you cruise until finals time.
My English class isn't one to cruise, but today we sort of went off tangent and discussed things not related to the text we were supposed to be reading. It was related to literature in general. My classmates and I have a tendency to show up 10-20 minutes before class starts to discuss the homework or whatever amuses us in that moment. Our group talk was over the current trend of books that have been really popular as of late. You know, the ones you seem to see in every store, including non bookstores. The ones that are bestsellers if only because they have such a high sales market regardless of if they have great content or not.
And then it went towards another thought. What literature will students be reading in English classes for high school and college 20 years from now? 50 years from now? 100 years? What anthologies will editors put together to explain our current politics, art movements, music, in future generations? What would it even be called? This stumped us all for a moment, because in truth we have no idea. Our general vote of consensus was that this era might one day be considered the time of Great Technological Advancements. Or rather, the generation of Escapism.
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