Hmmm...

This semester, I am taking African, Asian and Latin American Literature online as my literature elective and last gen ed. Its been a great experience, both because I've been able to read some African books that told stories of a people near and dear to my heart, and because of the unique insights of my fellow classmates.

In this module, we are reading Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die. Its been a thought-inspiring read so far, exploring the meaning of sanity from the inside perspective of a mental hospital patient admitted for a suicide attempt.

Author Paulo Coelho, from his website:
 www.paulocoelho.com

While this is a serious subject which I appreciate the gravity of, especially after my psychiatric nursing clinical rotation last year, I need to take a moment to appreciate the humor of the picture on the left.

This picture is on the opening page of the current module, with a caption notifying students of the class that this image is "available as a free wallpaper download" from the author's website.

Am I the only one that: A-is not sure why the author created a wallpaper image of himself, B-would find it creepy if someone actually had this picture on their laptop? People these days...