Introduction
Current Book: The Hero of a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell.
Hello, my name is Suzanne, and I am a former photojournalism student.
Yes, the similarity to Alcoholic’s Anonymous is meant, though, if any of my old professors come across this, know that its not your fault. I just realized that I had lost the passion for photojournalism long ago.
But I wasn’t completely lost. Sitting in the airport looking up literary criticism to the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, for FUN, I realized something. I realized that one, this isn’t normal behavior, and two, that maybe there was something here I wouldn’t loose my passion for after a few years of intensive studies. I always loved the days when I came home from class and had to do a pile of reading for my English classes, while I dreaded going out and working on my photography assignments. Looking over my school report, I realized that my photojournalism GPA was bringing down that of my English minor.
Truth be told, I felt pretty stupid for not seeing it sooner, before I graduated.
So, now, I am in transition. Because of deadlines and when I made the decision, I will not be able to go back to school to gain my masters and eventually PhD until Fall 2009. And considering my job, not a bad one, but a mind numbing exercise that involves my hands but never my mind, it feels like a long way away.
This is the genesis for the title of the Blog. I’m a former student trying to continue the student lifestyle. Not the partying, but the part that most people couldn’t wait to be done with, the pursuit of knowledge. I’m an addict going to the local university library on my days off from a 6 day a week job to grab any book that might be interesting, trying to get my fix. And maybe this Blog is an attempt to have a forum for discussion.
Feel free to recommend books for me to read. If I come across something interesting in what I’m reading, I’ll write about it.
Have a good day,
The English Literature Addict
