A Kelly Link Paper?

Hey y'all--I wanted to apologize in advance for the fact that I will miss perhaps the first hour of class tomorrow. Because the University Chorus, University Singers, and Huxford Symphony Orchestra are putting on the Mozart Requiem this Friday at 7:30 p.m. (free and open to the public; you should all come)--and because I am in University Chorus--I have to be at a special combined rehearsal from 2:00-3:45 (and then make the trek from Moody). I'm sorry that I'm going to have to miss some people's paper discussions.

But to give a quick intro to what I'm going to talk about in class, I want to do a paper on Kelly Link. I want to talk about ambiguity and endings and why I think her writing style is so awesome, focusing on "Stone Animals" and "Magic for Beginners." (Really I wanted to just do "Magic for Beginners," but I don't think I'll have enough so I was going to bring in "Stone Animals" since I had some ideas about it previously.) Right now my thesis is a bit nonexistent and my ideas are nebulous, so I'll be open to any suggestions. I'll explain more in class, but I'll leave you with that for now.

P.S.: I always imagine I'm seeing ghosts out of the corners of my eyes--you know, just outside my line of vision--whenever I'm blogging for this class at night. It's kind of creepy.

Also the other night I had this odd experience--I was getting ready for bed and I walked out into the hallway and turned the hall light on. I don't even remember what I did out there, but when I got back to my room I really thought I turned it off. Then I closed the door to my room and went about my business. About twenty minutes later, I looked over and realized the hall light was on.

At the time I was texting my boyfriend good night--but I ended up sending a text that said, "I think my hall light just turned on by itself." Knowing what a scaredy-cat I am and how I can psych myself out (especially at night), he let me spend the night at his dorm (he pretended to be all gentlemanly by giving me the bed, except the bed kind of sucked and the couch was probably more comfortable, haha). By the time I'd made it over there and was falling asleep, I had pretty much convinced myself that I'd just forgotten to turn off the hall light before I shut my door, but a part of me still thinks I turned it off. (And no one else was home. I'm absolutely positive.)

This coupled with the fact that I'm likely to imagine shadowy things moving just outside my line of vision as I writ about this... yeek. I hope I sleep tonight. T_T