Today was my third day of classes. Biology for the Unscience-ey Type 101, followed by Interpersonal Communications (chat with your neighbor hour) 165. These should both be easy. Know what I'm worried about?
History of American Pop Music.
No kidding, it's going to be a fucking backbreaker, (3 full length research papers and a week-long multi-media group presentation. GO!) but I can already tell that I'm going to glean an incredible amount of extremely useful and interesting information.
I think the TPT has been good for me. It's easier to introduce myself and make conversation with fellow classmates for once. This also has the fantastic side effect of helping me avoid talking to who I usually end up talking to: Crazy Ass People.
Community College has CAP coming out of it's ears. And as many of you know, crazy people LOVE me.
55 year old woman who lives in the woods on bainbridge island, has a name that no one can pronounce, interprets objects into crazy-ass animal noises and is weighted to the floor with healing crystals? LOVES ME. We've barely had a 3 minute conversation and she constantly turns around to smile at me for way, way too long.
And remember the Deaf Math Guy? I was trying so hard to be sensitive to the deaf, but see? Even Crazy Deaf People love me.
So it's really nice to be chatting up the bassist of the Amazombies, the sushi waitress with the huge blue glass flames coming out of her jumbo gauged ears, and the guy who taught the teacher the meaning of 'Hella Brittle' and wrote it up on the board for her, for a change. You know. Normal People.
I will try my best to be around, lovepants, but I've got something like 3 hours of reading a night to knock out. If you see me having anyfun, ask me why I'm not at home reading till my eyes catch fire, or at TPT making American Dollars for the loan man.
Posted by Sonya at September 28, 2005 07:44 PMHistory of American Pop Music. No kidding, it's going to be a fucking backbreaker,
You know what I've noticed? Classes that don't sound like classes tend to be harder than classes that are classes. I took a class on the literature of hip-hop once and it was a total pain in the ass. The teacher was a raging asshole and kind of a racist, but also there was a lot of homework. Same thing with a class I took in science fiction lit once.
Posted by: Joshua at September 29, 2005 10:36 AMsame with me- i thought 'Condensed Matter Theory- how hard can it be to talk about some correlation functions and the different types of liquid crystals? the teacher wore a camelback and bike shorts to class which was bad enough and then we got crushed by tons of renormalization group corrections to anisotropic elasticities in smectics and nematics by the end of the first quarter...
Posted by: brl at September 29, 2005 11:01 AMHah! That's what you get for messing with the natural order.
(oh wow - 'smectics' is a real word ...)
Posted by: John Galt at September 29, 2005 11:10 AMwow- just linked back to the deaf math guy post..... harsh!
Especially Joshua's truly insensitive comment.
trying to be "sensitive to the deaf"???? Get real girlfriend - we're all just people, even us Deaf ones. Sheesh - never thought I'd get offended at THIS blog.
Posted by: Ruby at September 29, 2005 11:20 AMblong, you're a fucking riot.
Posted by: tim at September 29, 2005 11:41 AMGirlfriend: I'm sorry if you took offense to what I said, but I think you're misreading a little.
I'm not talking about the real people who are deaf. I'm talking about the CRAZY PEOPLE. who occasionally also happen to be deaf. That was the point. Crazyness. That dude followed me all over the place! For 3 months! He still follows me around when I see him on the street, and he seriously invades my body space when I see him. He won't take no for an answer. I was trying to be 'sensitive' at first because I thought we might be having a communication breakdown, but no. That dude is crazy.
Posted by: Sonya at September 29, 2005 03:11 PMHey. Sorry to get all up in your face like that. It's just that we get a lot of discrimination and i just wanted to point it out. Here's a hint: just try substituting Black for Deaf in any of your sentences and you'll see how it might look a little offensive. No harm meant/taken. Peace out.
Posted by: Ruby at September 29, 2005 07:23 PMLet me guess that you look everyone in the eye.
Posted by: nathaniel at September 30, 2005 08:51 PMI do. Everybody's people, you know?
Especially Joshua's truly insensitive comment.
Wait-- my what?
Careful, sunshine. I'm bored in a foreign country and all there is to do here is drink coffee.
Posted by: Joshua at October 3, 2005 08:08 AMJosh: just read it again
*Tell Deaf boy you think Gallaudet should have a hearing president, AG Bell was right about Deaf people, and that Total Learning would work if all those BiBi fucks would just shut up and learn to read lips. Then ask him why he never learned cued speech or, at a minimum, SEE2. I guarantee he'll never speak to you again.
Though there is an outside chance he'll have you killed by the Deaf Mafia.*
Um, yeah, I think it counts as offensive....
Sonya: sorry for highjacking your message section with this issue - but maybe now you see a little bit of the grief I put up with from hearing people every day.
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