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Today, I have:

• read and annotated 2 workshop papers
• written most of my reflection that’s due Tuesday
• read part of my Milton reading and done a reading response
• deleted a lot of my old draft of a paper and started on the new draft with some great stuff
• started my legal language research paper

And by the end of the semester (i.e. 5 weeks from now), I have to:

• write an 8 to 10 page Milton paper
• write an 8 to 10 page legal language paper
• write a 4 to 6 page pop culture paper (on Dr. Horrible! woo!)
• revise draft of paper on a woman’s body (as in written about, not written on, a woman’s body)
• write a completely new paper about some other stuff I haven’t even looked at yet
• finish this reflection and write one more
• take a legal language quiz
• take multiple comparative lit quizzes
• write a comparative lit paper
• plan a bachelorette party, apparently on my own
• take 2 grammar tests

Blargh. The next 5 weeks are going to be HELL.

So for one of my classes, I have to write this paper. I could choose from any one of five invention exercises. The exercise that worked best for me in terms of how much  I could write was about the texture of public places. I started this essay about football and the South.

Here is the dilemma:

I am required to workshop this essay with the entire class. I am in the South. My paper does not exactly exalt the glory that everyone here believes football to be. I will be in classes with all the people in this class for the next two years.

So the question is: Do I censor myself for the sake of not being hated, and then after workshop write the paper I really want to write to turn in with my final portfolio, or do I write what I want and be the “honest” writer that my professor sees me as? Of course, I could also choose another exercise and just roll with it, but that is my last resort. What should I do?

…because I have two classes that have nowhere to go under the new English Language Arts Education curriculum. She had to email the other adviser in the field to ask her what to do with them. They can’t just tell me that those classes don’t count now when I’ve been following the old curriculum for two years, can they? I’m trying not to get too concerned now because I don’t know yet that there’s not a solution, but it’s just looming over my head like a giant dark cloud.