Lawdy, do I really need to keep you all updated with the minutiae of my life? I think not...no-one reads this thing anyway...hahaha!!!
Be very afraid America, your children are retarded. I mean, if the patronising, insulting, ethnocentric, jingoistic comment I heard in class today is any indication of America's future then I weep...Sometimes I just despair at the depth and breadth of ignorance to be combated here, for how long must we struggle against this wall of resignation and arrogance?
Well, someone has to do it, and it may as well be me. Like the Right Honourable Robert Nestor Marley said, " Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery / No-one but ourselves can free our minds"
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Ohhh...hooray for retroactive posting! Blogger you rock!
Can you believe I went to a football game today? I can't either...what's even more shocking is the fact that I woke up at 8 am to go tailgating before hand. Now that was a weird experience for me, tailgating seems to be a strange amalgam of old fashioned generosity and a reaffirmation of White Middle Class Conservative values played out through and by a mainly African-American dominated team..very odd. As I was saying to a friend afterwards, while you are at one of these huge events, you can stop by almost any tent and get a beer and a burger but if you tried that at their homes, they would probably shoot you in the butt.. :-p
Prof Dan in my 700 level seminar today, "It's only 270 pages! You can do that over a weekend and write a thoughtful 3 page critique! This is the big pool now!"
Someone throw me a line
*EDIT*
On second thoughts, I should just suck it up and deal, I mean come on....this is grad school we're talking about.....sometimes I'm such a pussy :-p
Oh and while I'm in the mood for self-flagellation I may as well report that I did not test out of Japanese 101, my vocabulary is second year but my writing skills are not..I can't believe I blanked when
sensei asked me to write my name out in
katakana
Stupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupid
Ahhh the first day of classes just ended..
All those luvly freshmen wandering about, looking so young and confused...muahahaha! Well, let's just say that I'll not lack for eye candy all year long. Oh the joys of a big university.
Ugh...lecture section is soooo huge! Just rows and rows of undergrads packed into that auditorium, I was afraid that they would also pack into my recitation sections but from the rosters it looks like I'll have a sensible number of folks in there.. that's good because discussion doesn't really work in classes beyond a certain number...neato :)
Ooooohhh..and I hope I can test out of Japanese 101. I mean, it's not that I appreciate the opportunity to recall how to say "hello" "goodbye" and "goodnight" but I dont want to waste precious credit hours doing that..especially when those hours dont count towards my MA....so here's hoping...
Mmm... so today was the Grad Queer meet and greet thing, and I must say I was surprised by the turnout! There must have been about 25+ people there, and for a first meeting, at least in my experience, that's quite a few :) The meeting was..eh, meeting-like but afterwards some of us trooped down to Union Station to booze it up..haha, myself not included of course ;)
Let's just say that there are some..interesting people in Grad Queers, not the least the guy we gave a ride to there and back..ahem..talk about full disclosure! I know you just met us, but please, save the juicy details at least until the third meeting :-p
However the highlight of tonight was meeting J...mmm, J is a tall cool glass of handsome on a hot day :-D From the moment I saw those baby blues I knew I had to get to know him a little better..hehe..I couldn't help myself, those eyes are just hypnotic, and he's seems like a really sweet kind guy...anyway to cut my gushing short, we're going to temple on Sunday (Buddhist temple for those of you who ignore my tagline) and so I'll see how things go one on one...
*fingers crossed*
Okay, so I have been oh so gently reminded that I haven't posted about Sunday's event, you know.. the second date thing?
Hmmm..so..Is this what dating feels like? It just seems so anti-climactic, I mean you spend so much time thinking about it, and figuring out what to wear or what to say :) and then the day comes and the date ends so quickly that you're left wondering what exactly happened. I suppose there is an art to all this, a slow drift towards intimacy, helped along by occasional hand brushings and revelations about parental depression, but this feels so odd to me. I'm used to jumping straight to the sex bit and worrying about the rest of the baggage later. It's worked admirably for me in the past and quite frankly everyone gets something out of it..even if some parties may enjoy it more than others..haha
So what am I saying? Arrrgh I don't know what I'm trying to say! But I will say this, whatever the hell this is, I kinda like it :-)
I thought this might tickle your collective fancies; the TA staff for Comp Studies 270 this quarter is composed of: 1 gay man (me), 1 lesbian and 1 former middle school teacher, mother of two, and dutiful wife of a Marine officer.
You may now chuckle at will :)
It's the weekend! Yay!
I am happy that all the silly TA thingies are done with and that I've met the other people in the program and the faculty and they all seem to be nice, down to earth folks...
One thing that struck me very hard this week was, now that I'm in graduate school, I'm studying with a group of nerds just like myself :-p so I don't have to worry about coming off as a know-it-all or about referencing some obscure theorist or just some of my own strange ideas..it's a very strange feeling that I'm not quite used to just yet, but it's a pleasant feeling nontheless.
I'll be happy to start class and put my brain back into gear, I swore up and down that this summer I would do a lot of reading and writing and get my thesis into some kind of publishable form, but I just haven't had the motivation to do so..I mean even now, I should be thinking about cranking out a syllabus for my recitation section but I don't feel up to it. Well part of it is I'm not sure that I even want to make one up for the class because really my vision is for it to be a discussion session rather than a lecture/assignment kind of traditional class...Hahaha..when in doubt, call it subversive :-D
It's also second date time this weekend, yay! This time doing something really really gay, which I'll only post about post-factum..haha
Gah! Tired! Who knew TA conferences could suck so much
mana out of you?
Whatever happened to music that matters? Hahahaha..but no, really, tell me....
Oh yes, and Charles? My best friend from primary school from a coupla posts back? Turns out he's a foul mouthed, often soused, wanna-be film-maker :) Wonderful, just wonderful!
Mmmm....so tomorrow is the TA development conference, 3 days of sitting around listening to
anoraks telling you how to hold chalk in an academically impressive fashion. Now, ordinarily I would be dreading this event but this provides a lovely opportunity to press the flesh with cute grad students before the free-for-all that will be the GLBT grad mixer next week. See? There is indeed a cold and calculating mind hard at work here ! If only I didnt have to be there at 8.30 am... sigh
And here's a memo to all the people who didn't pick up the phone this weekend...SHAME!!! Why do you have cellphones if you don't pick up and let me regale you with tales of lurid and lush living in Cowtown? Hmmph!
La rue du couleur
So my friend K-dawg and I went down to High St and I-670 to check out this "Via Colori" mini-festival they were having down there; chalk drawings on the asphalt, greasy food and overpriced drinks ruled the day..and I thought to myself, why not give it a nice French name rather than an Italian one? Surely the Short North has pretensions to high culture? And then it struck me that the Italian version is much more difficult to mispronounce... :-p Midwesterners!
Yeah, and so finallly I've gone on a nice, normal date in Cowtown *applaud here*. It turns out there are warm, funny semi-sane people in Columbus who I would actually like to see a second time. Yay! There's no dirt to dish because there
is no dirt to dish you naughty naughty people, we shared a chaste goodnight kiss outside his place and that was that...besides it was too nice a moon and too nice a night to spoil it with unmentionables...so there...
And speaking of DJ talent, Tiesto is coming to town in October! I can hardly believe it...more Dutch talent than you can shake your magic stick at. LOVELY!!
Cooo..so someone
is reading this stuff after all....hello all, do have a seat..will that be tea or coffee?
Things a-plenty have been happening lately, even though I have little to do and a lot of time to do it with! So that Shawn business is total history though he calls me today and we spend a half hour chinwagging about online courses, the public defender system and the relative merits of contact lenses...huh? Is exactly right, I did not expect that this..whatever it is, would continue beyond the expiry date of relationship.. I guess we are friends now? Murf?
Did I mention
he was coming in November? I am of course suitably excited and preparing an appropriately scented and coloured item of underclothing to chuck in his face at a choice moment in the set..mmmm....hard dutch errr ummm trance :-p
Then today I get an email that just blew me away! It was from Charles by bestest friend in Primary who I hadn't heard from in 9 years....9 years! It was an absolute shock...we were inseparable until he left just before Std 8, and I was heartbroken when he did. I mean this was the kid with whom I spent every single moment I could, we talked about it all and I do mean all...Now that I think about it I probably had a mega-crush on him too but it's been so long that I'm not absolutely sure. I wonder if he's in the US or still in the UK...
Ha! I'm still reeling from the shock!
