wassle

[cellohaha]

I know I already made a post about this essay, but I feel the need to publicize that I have finally reached the point of writing sentences that might actually be used in my paper. For example:

The strength of Merchant’s argument rests on her ability to provide multiple, believable examples of the ways in which humans have made alterations to their

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[fiddlewizard]

hahahahahaha, social history paper!
What's wassling?

[cellohaha]

I think it means going around to people's houses singing Christmas carols for money.

[fiddlewizard]

ah

[fiddlewizard]

Is there a Jewish equivalent to Wassling? Like going around and singing Channukah songs to people? And if not, doesn't that mean that Wassling is anti-Semitic?

And by the way -- wonderful paragraph. I remember one thing that struck me was the way that Darnton considered the past a foreign country, whereas M. thought that trends begun in the past are still continuing and influencing us today.

-Joel

[sounlikely]

wassailing = caroling

YES I have been raised in a christmasy house.

[fiddlewizard]

I HATE Christmas carols, with a firey passion. I want them all to die. Except maybe a few, but they can die too just because they're overdone.
Dear god, this morning I was awokan by the radio with a five-minute special on ANNOYING MUSIC. I'm serious, that's what it was called. And its focus today was CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Including that annoying fuck ass one where they have christmas carols "sung" with cat meows, that my dance teacher used to have us warm up to in dance all the time during the holidays and they made me want to diieeeee.
So I was cringeing and covering my face with a pillow this morning. What a lovely way to wake up, no?
btw, Tchaikovsky concerto=the shizzle. I am terrified of it though -- but I think I must not be learning the whole first movement? Cuz uh... a little out of my league there...
My christmas wins this year -- Hartford chez Uncle "Michael" Walter. fo' shizzle, ma jizzle!

[fiddlewizard]

You Know You're Obsessed With A Certain Summer Camp When...
You write "awokan" instead of "awoken"
Oh wow...

[fluffykitten345]

wait. AP Euro makes you learn about manure?

[cellohaha]

hahahaha, yes, we get to read this one article about the agricultural revolution and all the evil things big capitalism did to the environment. I actually like the article, because I've been learning about the whole manure/fertility/crop rotation stuff in environmental science, but everyone else hates the article. It's very long.

[fiddlewizard]

it was really long and dense and written in a complex way, but it was interesting. Her main thing was "humans are evil because they rape the earth. Let's all become hippies. Death to all men. yay for communists."
I <3 AP Euro

[fluffykitten345]

Ah yes, the dreaded 'long' article. We got a bastard that was about 50 pages long once in History. You should have seen the looks on my friends' faces as Mr. Pia exhorted us to read it and 'possibly make a summary of each page - nothing much, just a couple hundred words'. Idiot. We're teenagers, we can't even manage half a page without yawning. *rolls eyes*