This is the latest I've written so far, and it's because I've forced myself to stay off of the internet and get many other things done. This turned into me taking an extra walk along Lake Michigan's coast. I found a concrete peninsula. And I sat on that peninsula, with my feet hanging off. And I wrote. For about two hours.
Two days ago, eight of us went over to the World Music Festival at Millennium Park to see the Whirling Dervishes perform. It was so nice. Also, one of my colleagues and I ended up being flag bearers for the World Peace Flag Ceremony that opened the event. They were missing eleven people, and since we were there early, the director asked if we would volunteer. And two of us did. Seriously! I carried Iceland's flag.
To celebrate my birthday, about ten of us went to the Grand Lux Cafe on Michigan Avenue for dinner. Enjoy these few pictures from the past two nights.
There is not much happening on my end this next week, except for gearing into my research paper. I've narrowed my research even more. I've decided to work with the slave narratives of Josiah Henson. He is supposedly the "Uncle Tom" that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her novel about. He wrote four different autobiographies himself. The first was written in 1849, the last in 1879 or 1881. I would give you more information on this, except I pretty much researched for eight hours today, and I'd like to take a break from thinking about him. But soon, I'll give you a more detailed project description. We seal the deal on our topics this Friday with two or three sentences stating our intentions. The Josiah Henson topic is the one that everyone (including myself) is especially excited about. I'm excited to tell you about the topic some time soon.
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