In AP English Literature with Mr. Cooper, I learned what might be the most important thing to know about myself academically. We had a unit on Pygmalion. Within the first week or so, after we'd already been told that our homework was to practice speaking with a Cockney accent, he gave us an assignment to create an ad for speech therapy. It took me ( Read more... )

I thought I had decided not to go to St. Petersburg for the Russian program this summer in June, but now I'm back to indecision ( Read more... )

WHY don't dudes on Craigslist realize that "cumin" is not "arriving" or "ejaculating," but rather a spice? Every time I read that I get confused and wonder why they want to be in my potatos with my coriander.

I have had this exact same sequence of thoughts about twelve times in the past four hours. Maybe if I write it down, I'll STOP THINKING IT over and over again ( Read more... )

Sometimes I am so revolted by the entire world I can't stand it. Today while I was hanging out outside the Centre in the basement of Shatner, three people walked in wearing red jumpsuits. I was pretty confused by this until I suddenly realized that Snow AP (the winter version of Open Air Pub) is going on, and Management Carnival is today, I think. ( Read more... )

If Mike Huckabee becomes President, I'm not coming back to the States permanently for even longer than I thought. Ugh.

So my schedule is still going to be screwed up and weird, but I decided to take Gender, Race, and Science, which is taught by a professor in the faculty of medicine who used to be the McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women's chair. It's a 500-level women's studies seminar that goes for three hours on Mondays. I'm so amped ( Read more... )

Syllabuses are up for winter term courses. I'm taking Civil-Military relations for sure because 1. American Foreign Policy's term paper is only worth 20% compared to the final exam, worth 40%, and 2. International Organizations has a debate requirement ( Read more... )

Ugghhh. Why am I not seeing Led Zeppelin today?

Oh, everyone, please, please, please, please, PLEASE read bell hooks. Please. I'm working on my take-home for fem theory and the question I'm doing today is on the portion we read from hooks's Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, and I just remembered how much I love her again.