Swine Flu and Pirates

Sooooo at the start of the week I was like stoked because we were getting back together as one big group class and not our individual classes. I was curious to what we would be learning now. Was expecting pirates? No. Am I disappointed? Far from it. I was sooo pumped but with our first inkshed the Profs (the fab three as I hope to call you) proved the point that we really know jack-squat about real pirates. Nearly ALL of our ideas of pirates come from Jack Sparrow and Keira Knightly in a corset. As much I think Johnny Depp is a beautiful specimen he is not a real pirate. This then led me into a serious interest of what of the stereotypes of pirates is true and what are solid facts on pirates. When we read that piece on articles written on pirates and who the authors were I wanted to know who the hell these authors were? Wikipedia searchers? People who knew real pirates? Who gave them the right to be reading worthy? Russ has me paranoid about who are these writers, thanks Russ. And then here comes the clincher.
I was supposed to write a piece on William Snelgrave and I truly intended to get to it but then came the marvelous flu. Not only did I miss class, I missed the rest of the week, I missed an occasion I could have attended, I threw up everything I could have eaten in the year of 2009, I couldn't move from my bed. The energy I am using to type this is really all I have to muster. I am not trying to slack off but God said Lauren Cook shall catch the flu and it was done. So hope we are talking about pirates when I get back, hopefully soon. And yes. That is it.