Solo and ensemble will be temporarily over in a few days. It will most certainly be a relief for me, as well as my associate employee contemporaries. Getting together and actually applying ourselves has proved rather difficult.

Anyone in ap english iv preparing to read "native son" be warned: it is not for the faint of heart. I was reading today when we went to hell class with the substitute, and it is extremely graphic/violent. Don't worry about reading into this one, because wright just lays it on the line, the unpleasant nature of violence.

"He stared at the furnace. He trembled with another idea. He-he could, he-he could put her, he could put her in the furnace. He would burn her! That was the safest thing of all to do."

And that is only his forethought. ack.