I really wish I could find the words to express just how great my first day back at school has been! I think it all started on the right foot because I had toast with the fresh creamy honey I bought at the Brome Fair yesterday for breakfast. After that the whole day just seemed to unravel like a dream!
My first class was American Literature 1914-1945. We'll be reading Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Dos Passos & Yezierska among other greats! Our teacher is a sweet lady and although she spent nearly two hours on the syllabus today, I expect we're going to get along great!
Well I was nervous for my evening class because I had really high hopes for it - Film in History!
The course description read something along the lines of:
American History between 1920 and 1950 as seen through the eyes of the directors of the Golden Age of Cinema.
Well with all my great expectations, it would have been easy to feel disappointed, except it was quite the opposite! On our very first day we watched Joan Crawford dancing around in a perfect late 1920's wardrobe in Our Dancing Daughters, a silent film with Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian. Then - as if that wasn't enough goodness for one Tuesday evening classroom - the teacher showed Barbra Stanwyck's BabyFace! I had seen it before and it's one of my favourite precode Hollywood films! Ole' Barb's character is just too spunky for her own good and her wardrobe just about had me crumpled over in a jealous pile on the floor! I walked back to the subway wishing for pretty blouses like the one she is wearing in the opening scene, and perfectly 1930's heels...and what I wouldn't give to pull hats off as perfect as Stanwyck with her awesome head of hair and perfect face!
Well I came home - in an unstoppably good mood - to the smell of sweet potato casserole and a honey mustard pork roast, all home made for me by my man who snuck into my new apartment while I was in class! Now can anyone think of a better way to celebrate two awesome classes than sweet potatoes with brown sugar and pecans inside? Cause I sure can't! I'm not sure I even deserve all this goodness! I'm gonna need to do some paying forward soon to weigh out all the good karma on my side!
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