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Name: Christina
Gender: Female
Interests: Reading, acting, wasting time, taking things out of context, watching movies and often-mindless television, and feeding the bears -- just because they tell you not to doesn't mean it's wrong.
Expertise: English. Yes, I am one of those people who correct others' grammar, but only for my dearest friends (the lucky devils).
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
7/15/2003
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| 'Are there any farmers among them [Europeans]?' Mahjoub asked me.'Yes, there are some farmers among them. They've got everything — workers and doctors and farmers and teachers, just like us.' I preferred not to say the rest that had come to my mind: that just like us they are born and die, and in the journey from the cradle to the grave they dream dreams some of which come true and some of which are frustrated; that they fear the unknown, search for love and seek contentment in wife and child...
-Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih Hint: It's not the arguable need for a comma between "dreams" and "some of which." | | |
| It's Monday, June 5. I will leave for home on Wednesday, June 14. On Friday, June 9, end-of-year finals things end and happy, birthday-related things begin. (Okay, so the dorm outing on Friday night has nothing to do with my birthday, but I consider it part of a general festive atmosphere.)
Between now and that time, however, I have to write 14 pages for three different assignments and sit for an oral final [ill-advised joke here]. Oh damn, I also have -- how many? -- five? pages due for my tutoring training, which I've been putting off for two weeks? Bah.
In the midst of all of this, the final burst of necessary energy is suspiciously absent.With all of this to do, all I want to do is knit and learn Spanish. Mostly knit. (Have you guys seen how cabling is done? It really fills a person with awe for the human mind. And a giddy itching to try it. At least if that person is me.)
As much as I really dislike the idea of being 1/4 done with college (oh god the fear is gripping me in its ice-cold vise), this last stretch just has to be got through.
Those of you who finished your terms ages ago, bah. And congratulations. My BHS friends -- I'm sure you and I are on the same wavelength. When is the time of your ultimate deliverance?
P.S. Nick, that comment is pretty rich from someone who also hasn't updated in a month. Ha.
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| So I know that "Hey look at this cool link I found!" posts are obnoxious, but seriously. You have to see this. First you'll sit through a Salon ad, but it's so worth it.
Caitlin Flanagan on "The Colbert Report"
In related news, Bush tried to bitch around Stanford (what the San Jose Mercury and company don't mention is that it was Admit Weekend, and a ton of traditions and fun happy things for the prospective freshmen were stamped out because of silly OMGthepresident'scoming! hysteria), but then Stanford bitched around Bush, who had to retreat to a crony's Palo Alto home. He didn't even set foot on campus.
And people warned me I'd come back for winter break a Republican. Pfft.
Any adventures in Man-damning for you guys? Also, the play for my super geeky humanities course this quarter is The Importance of Being Earnest, and it's being directed by one of my favorite people here. I wish I weren't quite so busy reading Shakespeare and watching French porn this quarter. How is BHS' play going? | | |
| "Women have breasts, which are needed. A man cannot give breasts to a baby, much as he may try."
"I
tried Taster's Choice, and I thought it would be good, because how much
can they lie? Apparently, they can lie a lot. Either that, or they have
the worst tasters in the world."
"I'm almost done."
"You've
been almost done for an HOUR. Let's see, at this rate -- zero work in
one hour... at this rate it will take you exactly an ETERNITY to
finish!"
On Casablanca:
"Victor Lazslo could have gotten any hot European girl he wanted."
"It would be SO cool to jump from the first floor into a pool full of boobies."
"I breastfed for much longer than you're supposed to. But you know, breast milk is supposed to make you smart, so it worked!"
"You are a threat to decency."
"You're amused, don't pretend you aren't"
"I am that too
but
mainly horrified"
On the French numbering system:
"Come on. 'Four twenties'?"
"Do you have separate numbers?"
"We count just like in English and in every civilized language."
"No, really. Don't you LOVE group hugs? They are the way to world peace."
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