tues/thurs shakespeare

Ok, so I'm an English major. I like to read and write, writing more than reading if I had to pick. I, however, do not sit in on Friday nights and recite Shakespeare's plays, picking out my favorite lines and committing them to memory. I have not read all of his 52? playwrites (hardly.) Ok so I wouldn't think this would be a big problem except for the fact that 90% of the students in my Shakespeare After 1600 class are those people. Umhm. Ok, so we have the two girls that sit on my left and never look up from their notebooks. They ask insightful questions and sometimes 'accidentally' quote lines from acts we haven't read yet. NEAT. They laugh and engage in inside jokes with the teacher. Sometimes I try and laugh along quietly too, but both of these occasions have led to very embarrassing moments. On my right, I have the free-loving hippie girl who smells like an ash-tray. I know that if I ever have any lung complications they will be due to her. She gets up to go to the bathroom about once every class. Her exit is a breath of fresh air, but when she comes back the smell is even stronger and twice my eyes have started watering profusely. There is this one girl who always shows up about 15 minutes late and brings in her lunch, ALWAYS. So we get to smell whatever she's having every tuesday and thursday. There's the introvert on his laptop always typing away, I swear he's on facebook. The two stereotypical "writer-type" guys, intellects, scruffy, could be mistaken for a uni-bomber but I won't get into that. The one girl who never talks. And the one girl who ALWAYS talks but never has anything new to say. If I had to pick, I guess the girl who has nothing new to say and I are tied. All the the people in the class, despite their attributes, I feel like have taken this class like seven times before and are always two steps ahead of the teacher. I guess I need to get reading! but I thought I would illustrate the daily happenings of my lit class and the lovely people who share my major. YAH.