Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Red Ink


Stares at me from the margins of black and white print that is supposed to makeup a dissertation as if by magic in only a matter of weeks; my heart sinks at the professor’s writing splashed in red ink - tormenting ‘corrections’, an endless sea of red annotations, exclamatory lines, circles and cursive writing that makes me squint and moan in despair.  Ah red ink, how you intimidate me...