Comments | averseortwo: all my lies are always wishes.

averseortwo

all my lies are always wishes.

Jul 27, 2005 14:49

I spent a long time today at work reading the galley proofs of a book we're putting out called A Day in the Life of the American Woman. It's a photography collection of women from all over the country partaking in their daily activities: taking care of a sick relative, working on their farm, lighting Shabbes candles, and the like. There are a lot ( Read more... )

job, the future

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luxlucis July 27 2005, 21:40:55 UTC

Which class was "how to sound good..."?

averseortwo July 27 2005, 22:09:23 UTC

English 212. We dropped a lot of "visitor from Porlock" and "the child is father of the man." My professor (teaching assistant on loan from UNC, so you wouldn't know her) apparently thought that the Romantics made you sound very elegant.

val1124 July 28 2005, 12:19:22 UTC

Wow, I'd nearly forgotten about that woman. Was it Jaffe? She was too much. Personally, my favorite line that she dropped was "Well my UNC students..." Try that one at your fancy pants cocktail parties. ;-)

averseortwo July 28 2005, 14:08:01 UTC

I actually liked her (yes, it was Jaffe)- she wrote me a recommendation letter for the creative writing program I taught in. But the whole "sound good at cocktail parties" thing freaking killed me. We spent almost all of that class on Romanticism (which I love, by the way, but it was a survey class) and had like two weeks to do all of Modernism, including Yeats. That class was so silly.

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sweetspastic July 28 2005, 02:54:06 UTC

Hurray for subtle growth; it's the best kind because it sticks around.

zipperblues July 28 2005, 07:08:57 UTC

(i know i would die if i could come back new.)

averseortwo July 28 2005, 14:08:38 UTC

As soon as I wrote that entry I had this weird feeling that you would comment exactly what you just did.

zipperblues July 28 2005, 17:34:29 UTC

uh-oh. i'm becoming predictable. :)