Just Another Blogging Sesh ..

Happy Halloween classmates! I'm in a particularly good mood considering Halloween is just a day away and figured today would make for a good blogging sesh (and also, because I forgot to blog on the weekend of our last festivity, Thanksgiving.)

Prior to this time, I have been working on my Assignment 3, Deconstruction of "the Anecdote of the Jar." I have to say, I'm actually enjoying this one very much and believe it's my best construction yet for this class. Though we've only completed two others, I've found that I have become more opened-minded to understanding such poems as "Anecdote of the Jar". Hearing others' perspectives and responses to such literary works in comparison to my own helps me develop a better understanding,and when given additional assignments, urges me to think deeper under the surface and not settle for one take on the piece, but several. It funny to think that being introduced to multiple answers to literature pieces provides for a better understanding of it because usually we have the best understandings of things that have one simple truth, not multiple ones. In addition to sharpening my mind, I'm also finding these class discussion sessions to benefit my writing. One assigment with 2x the benefits? Très magnifique!

It is not a stiletto, and so it is a sandal

Hello. So, taking a step back, I'd like to expand on Saussure's Structuralism.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to what I have learned, Saussure claims that signifiers signify through relationships of opposition. For example, this is a sandal. It is not a slipper, a stiletto, a pump, a running shoe,a moccasin, nor any other footwear. And because it is not any of these, it is a sandal. As much as this way of creating identity seems complex, and almost unnatural to the mind.. I recur myself making identifications in this way. For me, it helps to think of it as a process of elimination, because essentially, that's what it is. By eliminating all other shoes, you're left with one - the sandal. This might sound silly, but this "eliminating" process takes me back to high school where we were given multiple-choice questions and took part in a similar process of elimination, eliminating those answers that didn't pertain to the question being asked. Again, by eliminating those that oppose, you arrive at an answer; you find a shoe that "fits". Perhaps my way of thinking has some fault to it, but it's definitely helping me process some new things I have learned. Maybe it can help you too.

Confessions...

Confession: Contrary to what was expected, I'm really not finding this class
all that difficult to comprehend (aside from the odd reading or two).
Maybe this is good? maybe Im not the only fish not being swept away by
sky-high waves and drowning in a deep sea of theory? Or maybe I think
I'm finding my way, only to soon find myself swimming with the sharks.
I don't know...
Now onto something I am sure of...that I am I very interpretive person. Sadly, I can admit to have interpreted my muffin this morning. I suppose I like to make sense of most things, of puzzles.But don't get me wrong, here - I'm not some Sherlock Holmes, striving to find anything from clues, reasons, meanings, connections and answers behind anything and everything. Interpretation is actually a very natural thing for me; it really has become a part of my mentality -i just do it enough to forget I do it.

Confession#2: Contrary to all that has just been said: I have four black and white model portraits on one of the walls in my room. I mention this because these portraits are one of the few things I've never bothered to interpret. And so, I can't really tell you plenty about them other than the fact that they are some skinny...well, you know...
But they're beautiful, and really, if I did interpret them, I highly doubt they'd remain on my wall.