Excuses

I have not done anything interesting with my blog template. This is not because I don't want to cook Annika, Angela, Vicki or The Bears dinner. It is because that without someone to actually hold my hand and walk me through the process, it is obvious that I will have to read a whole bunch of confusing words and then USE MY BRAIN. Since my brain is currently completely occupied with marking student assignments, doing my own assignments for my course and watching Prison Break, I will have to wait until a more convenient time. (Okay, Prison Break doesn't actually use my brain, but it does use valuable time when my brain could be working.)

And now for an aside that is not parenthetical...

I often give books that I have read in the past and were not particularly smitten with (read: hated) a second chance. (Oops, that was, indeed parenthetical. Plus I used an ellipse, which is entirely predictable of me. So, sorry.) I have re-read The Great Gatsby and attempted valiantly to re-read The Sun Also Rises (Amanda, you are absolutely right about that particular "masterpiece"!). I hated them both--both times.

But A Confederacy of Dunces is book I read and didn't hate. But, honestly, I didn't get all the fuss about it either. I am wondering--should I give it another try? Will I rhapsodize about it after giving it another chance or is it just another Gatsby waiting to make me wonder what people see in it?

I just realized my last paragraph had no parentheses or ellipses in it. It appears I am not predictable after all.