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While working on my Modern Grammar worksheet a couple of weeks ago, I found this gem of a sentence:
The school paper called the graduating senior with the second highest GPA "slutatorian."

If that's not the greatest sentence ever found on a Modern Grammar worksheet about sentence patterns, then the world is a sad, sad place. : (

And FYI, anyone who attempts to tell me slutatorian is a typo for salutatorian will be shunned and made fun of. D< My professor would not be so disrespectful as to wrongfully call the imaginary graduating senior a salutatorian!

Why couldn't I have been a slutatorian, Suites? Why? The world is cruel.

But tell me to get back to starting my 3k rough draft due in a week and 3 days for my lit. class. @__@ Why must Creative Writing majors have so many lit. requirements? (Because college hates me, I know.)

I'm happy I could give you a new goal. I may now quit school to give motivational talks to schools across the nation about slutatorian-ism.

Yeah. Three thousand words. Not horrible, I guess, but I think this actually might be only my second 10 page paper. xD
It's a lit paper about Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.
I'm still figuring out my thesis but it's going to focus on the transference of power between races in the Reconstruction Era, the mimicking of Chesnutt and his motives in the character Julius, and the romanticism of the South. Somehow.

It's a group of short stories centering around three characters. It might come in a set called The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales.

The stories are interesting, I think, but probably not something I would read in my spare time to be entertained. FYI. Most of the stories are told in southern dialect because Uncle Julius, an ex-slave, ends up telling a tale of conjure (and veiled stories about the realities of slavery) in each short story. Also, since the stories were written in around 1900 and not much else would have been accepted during the period, Chesnutt uses racial stereotypes and tropes in his writing but he twists it to be only outwardly stereotypical and uses it to reveal the absurdity and falseness of them, so Julius does speak in a way that seems like he perpetuates those stereotypes. However, he usually talks that way to John, the Northerner who is prejudice, etc, to get something like a job, the old schoolhouse to use as a church for the free blacks around that area, etc.

Here's the first story of the bunch:
http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam312/2004/grapevine.html

You might be able to find them all online actually. The list of the Conjure Woman tales after the above is Po' Sandy, Mars Jeem's Nightmare, The Conjurer's Revenge, Sis' Becky's Pickaninny, The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt, and Hot-Foot Hannibal.