i am with you jeni. i'm not sure where we are supposed to be posting, but i think this is right. anywho, as i'm taking a break from my thesis work to post here, i would just like to say this is the most enjoyable class. i have really learned alot and i wish my thesis could be in this class instead of the meditative philosophy of poetry and william bronk. yes i know, its so fascinating. the essay 'the story of my body' that we had to read for last class really touched me. i enjoyed it so much because it was something i can definitely relate to. moving from the northeast, where dark haired women are not an oddity to lily white, germanic louisville kentucky was an eye opening experience for me, even as a little girl. i noticed that suddenly i was the odd one, and i never quite got over the fact that i was the hairiest girl in my class. go ahead and laugh if you want, but it still traumatizes me that the hair on my arms is so dark. i spent plenty of pages in my journal talking about it. guys i know still make comments about it, and i'm 21 years old and yet it still shakes me. if there is one thing i could change about my body that would be it. its funny how environment changes your body image. i bet if i had grown up in the northeast where ethnic women are more plentiful in the population, i probably would not have a complex about my arms. who knows, but now that you all know my embarassing fact about my body... lets just keep that in this class.