more luck

i just checked my grade in miscue analysis at isu, and i got my 5th 'a' in my 5th class!!!!

i still have a 4.0 and, to tell you the truth, i'm a bit surprised... i mean, anyone who's read my last entry about not feeling the least bit stressed about the class and my final project knows i was feeling eerily secure in my performance, it was like it was too easy...

now, before i took this class, people who had taken it had told me that i would 'never look at reading the same again'... and it is so frickin' true... as i listen to readers now, i am listening for things, and hearing things and thinking things i'd never considered before... not to say i was ignorant before. but, with as much as i had known about linguistics and grammar, and as much as i liked to read before this class, i still hadn't brought together what ken & yetta goodman (the gurus of whole language & miscue analysis) brought together.

it's not healthy to compare yourself to others, or to hold yourself to other people's standards, but as i think about the simplicity of miscue analysis, the fundamental nature of it, i feel i am shaky in my ability to see things that are directly in front of me.

but hey, i got an 'a'... so i may not be a leader in the field, but i'm a darn-good follower, as followers go. and i'm pretty sure i've hitched my wagon to the right horse.