In Which I Am Annoyed...
So tonight I attended the first Aurora meeting of the semester. I really enjoy these meetings, mostly for the discussion that I don't get being a distance student. Well, tonight, the discussion turned interesting, and I had to bite my tongue at some remarks another student made. These remarks pegged her as young, and lacking knowledge of the literary world. I'm not claiming I have extensive knowledge, but over time, I've learned a few things. So it went like this- we critiqued a short story this evening and it was obvious to me that either this author did not have a good grasp of grammar, or English was not their first language. I leaned towards the language, just because of the errors I saw. It was a story about a woman having her forty-first birthday, and feeling like she was no longer pretty, and that her husband no longer felt attracted to her. This woman tried many things to preserve her youth, and decided the night of her birthday to stop at a...