Dear Tanya Katz

Hi.

This is Alicia. One of the fat girls in class this term, the one with short, light brown hair. With the opinions and the interrupting, who absolutely hated the Joyce Carol Oates story but still had something good to say about it. Maybe. The one who turns in papers printed in blue ink on white paper. Yeah, that girl. She's me.

I'm a history major here at OSU. I've lost what I'm doing and where I'm going and just everything. I'm taking your 324 class mostly because I want something fun to do and I had the prerequisite. I took the 200 level from Jacob Mercer, a grad student who graduated last year or the year before. He had a nice smile, and he was from New Mexico or something. That's actually the class where I met my friend Monica, so there's that.

I have been thinking about making a blog for my writing for a long time. No, I haven't looked into whether or not that's a good idea. No, I can't really bring myself to care. People seem to have to fight so hard to get published, and they work full-time at it. I don't, and so forgive me if I don't seem all that worried about posting my stories and ideas online.

My stories are all my own. If you search through this blog--After of course, having googled some portion of my writing, looking for whether or not I'm plagiarizing, shocked when you get a verbatim result. Or maybe more annoyed, I don't know how professors feel when they think a student has plagiarized. 

Plagiarism is a sin against academia and all that is right in the world. I would never do it. 


But I realize that posting my work online would make you suspect that I didn't write it. This is why I waited until the day after I turned in an assignment to create this blog. How can I possibly have stolen work from a site which wasn't created until after I turned in my work? Just covering my butt, and since it's a large one you're getting a letter. --you'll find that most of the things I have posted here are from my own endeavors or from the 200 level from Jacob Mercer. Sorry, he was too young-looking for me to call him Mr. Mercer, and it was and IS too weird to call him just Jacob so he will forever be Jacob Mercer and there's nothing you can do to make me stop it. Short of finding me a new way to reference him.

I do plan on posting pieces generated by your class to this blog for the time being. However, I plan to post them after their due-date. So there's that. Rather large behind, I feel, has been successfully covered.