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Aug. 25th, 2010 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merrycaepa> Both French and English were let out early today. I'm still a bit dubious about French - the prof's teaching style is very much along the lines of "Oh, hey, on page 16, the textbook talks about the indefinite article...huh. Well, let's do something with that." On the other hand, English prof (who is, like, eighty, smokes a pack a day, and looks like she would beat you to death with her walker if the mood possessed her), in reference to The House of Mirth: "Lily Bart always makes me cry. But maybe that's just me. Bambi's mother makes some of you cry." And in regards to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas: "And how do you write the autobiography of someone else? Well, if you're Gertrude Stein, you can do anything you want." (New goal in life: become Gertrude Stein.)
> The caf food did not totally suck today! Mind you, it was terribly...good, either, but it was palatable. Although it started out this way last year, too, and by December it was clear that the food service provider quite frankly did not give a flying fuck anymore (overheard sometime in February: "Hey, we got anything we can substitute for broccoli?" Let alone that time Z. determined that the broccoli cheddar soup was literally nacho cheese with unidentifiable green matter mixed in. Which, come to think of it, might have been the context of the prior quote).
> Got all (okay, almost all) my readings for tomorrow done. Handout "The First Attack on the Enlightenment," in reference to Johan Georg Hamann: "...although he wrote obscurely, it is possible by dint of extreme attention (which I do not really recommend) to collect certain grains of sense from the extraordinarily contorted metaphors, euphemistic stylisms, allegories, and other forms of dark potential speech with which Hamann's fragmentary writings - he never finished anything - are written." First impression: this chapter was written by Dumbledore. Second impression: Hamann sounds a lot like that guy they referenced in "A Time of Angels" (Doctor Who 5.04)- what is it with visionaries and their inability to keep coherent records?
> Went out for a walk tonight and found a great big beautiful harvest moon. Never would have seen it if I hadn't gone out. Textedgeorginasand (four hours away by car) and she saw it, too. Which was pretty cool.
> Tomorrow = no French (hurrah for Thursdays off; that class is too bloody early).
> Looking forward to reading this (in, uh, all my spare time): A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
> So apparently US college students aren't the psychological template humanity worldwide? Hot damn.
> And lastly: Suspected spy found murdered in UK. What is it with spies these days? Isn't the point of spies to stay out of the public eye, let alone the international media? The way standards have collapsed since the Cold War, I can't even tell you. (It doesn't help that I can't read this stuff without involuntarily flashing to Burn After Reading, but then I believe I'm one of two people on the planet who found that movie funny.)
> The caf food did not totally suck today! Mind you, it was terribly...good, either, but it was palatable. Although it started out this way last year, too, and by December it was clear that the food service provider quite frankly did not give a flying fuck anymore (overheard sometime in February: "Hey, we got anything we can substitute for broccoli?" Let alone that time Z. determined that the broccoli cheddar soup was literally nacho cheese with unidentifiable green matter mixed in. Which, come to think of it, might have been the context of the prior quote).
> Got all (okay, almost all) my readings for tomorrow done. Handout "The First Attack on the Enlightenment," in reference to Johan Georg Hamann: "...although he wrote obscurely, it is possible by dint of extreme attention (which I do not really recommend) to collect certain grains of sense from the extraordinarily contorted metaphors, euphemistic stylisms, allegories, and other forms of dark potential speech with which Hamann's fragmentary writings - he never finished anything - are written." First impression: this chapter was written by Dumbledore. Second impression: Hamann sounds a lot like that guy they referenced in "A Time of Angels" (Doctor Who 5.04)- what is it with visionaries and their inability to keep coherent records?
> Went out for a walk tonight and found a great big beautiful harvest moon. Never would have seen it if I hadn't gone out. Texted
georginasand (four hours away by car) and she saw it, too. Which was pretty cool. > Tomorrow = no French (hurrah for Thursdays off; that class is too bloody early).
> Looking forward to reading this (in, uh, all my spare time): A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
> So apparently US college students aren't the psychological template humanity worldwide? Hot damn.
> And lastly: Suspected spy found murdered in UK. What is it with spies these days? Isn't the point of spies to stay out of the public eye, let alone the international media? The way standards have collapsed since the Cold War, I can't even tell you. (It doesn't help that I can't read this stuff without involuntarily flashing to Burn After Reading, but then I believe I'm one of two people on the planet who found that movie funny.)
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Date: 2010-08-26 04:48 am (UTC)LOVE YOU
(P.S. Can we talk about how there are all sorts of advice books for long distance romances, but not long distance friendships?)
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Date: 2010-08-26 04:58 am (UTC)Humph. We don't need no stinkin' advice books. Although it would be nice to see some sort of acknowledgment of the importance of long-distance friendship.
(And I went off on this whole mental tangent about how given that moonlight is actually reflected sunlight, we were both observing sunlight at night...and then the uni sprinklers came on, and there went that train of thought)