Mrs. Stephanie SoccerMom

I love character sketches. I consider myself a people-watcher. If I'm alone I spin tales about the people around me. I took Creative Writing a couple of semesters ago and one of our assignments was to go to the canteen and pick a person to profile. It was really fun.

I got my idea for my stereotype from my Aunt Katie's boyfriend Kip. He always joked that he was soccer mom before Katie came around.

I picked a Soccer Mom who I would probably call Stephanie.

o   She eats bon bons

o   She has a mini-van with a stick figure family on the back glass.

o   She has three kids: 2 boys, Tristen 7 and Blake 12—1 girl Rachel 14

o   She watches Days of Our Lives religiously.

o   She is part of the PSO

o   She always has clean hair and a designer jogging suit.

o   She has a young boyfriend while the kids are at school.

o   She loves her kids but between bake sells and shopping, she consistently forgets them at sports practice.

Stephanie hears about an Oshkosh outlet near Disney Land. She needs to buy clothes for her children and they can only wear the best so she books a trip… (this part will need working on)

Canterbury Conundrum

I've been trying to decipher Chaucer's Canterbury tales and am having the most difficult time. The words are so... well foreign. I found online at SparkNotes a "No Fear" version of the Canterbury Tales. They helped so much. I like that it tries to maintain the original spellings of names but fixes the spellings of pretty much everything else. I don't know what I would do without SparkNotes. I have read the No Fear and all of the summaries and analysises (analysi?) for the Canterbury Tales. I hope I have gained some kind of higher understanding.

When I read Beowulf I was so glad that the language was not as horrible as I expected. I was relieved to think that British Literature wouldn't be so hard after all... and now we're on the Canterbury Tales. They are killing me. But oh well. Thanks again SparkNotes.