Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Superstition


My mom believes quite strongly that if her purse is put on the floor that all her money will be spent fast, but by constantly keeping it off of the floor she can save her money with ease and not have to worry.  She is very serious about this and gets upset when I mess around with her by putting it close to the floor in a joking manner.  Her purse never touches the floor of anything or anything considered a floor, not anywhere in the house, car, restaurants et cetera, et cetera. When other girls come over or are around she makes sure to extend the her warnings for their bags as well.  Its funny when my girlfriend comes over because she always puts her purse on the floor and they'll look at each other and laugh, Mom will roll her eyes and girlfriend will ask still laughing "what?".


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