Chapter One

The title of my blog comes from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Amor Vincit Omnia is Latin for "Love Conquers All." In case that doesn't give you a clue, I love to read. I like to challenge myself to read not only novels and stories that I'm likely to enjoy, but also essays and criticism that I'm not entirely positive I can wade through. For example, at the moment I'm reading A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft (you might better remember her daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein). Be warned: This won't be the last time I write about books...

The last blog I wrote can be found here: http://blogs.lynn.edu/anopenbook/ I wrote about college life in Florida and all the craziness that entails. I have since moved to the great boot state of Louisiana, so hopefully, this new blog will have an even wider range of topics.

I live with the love of my life and our demon cat who will only drink out of the faucet. We very inventively dubbed her Kitty. I have two jobs: one that I hate, one that I love, Coldstone Creamery and substitute teaching, respectively. I took a semester off college when I moved here, so I start again in the summer. I can't wait. For the first time since I was five, I'm not in school, and I miss it. I want to be back in the classroom and soaking up knowledge like a ShamWow.

I have this disease called adult-ism, and it came on fast. My life is just getting started.