classes today

[rivendellrose]

I am officially in the most boring senior seminar in the entire English department. I should've taken the Joyce, even though it would probably kill me. 60% of the girls in that class look to be the brainless, over-bleached, nail-polished, too-much-makeup giggly morons that I've spent all of college trying to stay away from, and the prof has proven herself to be the sort who reads through and explains every detail of her two page syllabus, ad nauseum. Maybe it will get better. Maybe.

I can see I'll be getting a lot of doodling done during this class, just to keep from falling asleep. Or playing word games in my notebook. Like finding all possible synonyms for 'boring' - inane, tepid, dull, dry, useless, stupid, tired, witless, mindless.........

*Crosses fingers and hopes that Modern Poetry will be better*

Comments

[sparklinblossom.livejournal.com]

*hopes things get better for you*
I went to an almost all-girl high-school and the amount of ditz in the air should have made it a toxic zone.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

They should, it's just that "oh dear" kind of feeling you get sometimes at the beginning of a class.

Ack, I can imagine. This is what I get for taking the seminar with Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen on the list, I guess...

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

*wince* Do I even have to suggest a baseball bat at this point?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Nope. I just have to pray I get through the class without actually committing any felonies.

Oh, and the bsst moment of the day had to be going to Modern Poetry and sitting next to a girl I know from Shakespeare class a few quarters ago... and having her tell me that if I don't switch out of this professor's class, she's so stupid that she'll ruin my whole quarter. XP

I just keep repeating "Viking Sagas and cool Modern Poetry prof" over and over. I'll survive one boring professor.

[ursula]

Latin geek moment of the day: it's ad nauseam, not ad nauseum, because nausea is feminine (and comes from the Greek word "nausia", which means "seasickness"-- same root as "nautical".)

[becksbooks.livejournal.com]

ah...but doesn't that kind of apply in this situation...it is pretty nauseating!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. Ah, the pain of boring teachers.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oooo, thank you! I thought something looked funny when I wrote that, but I couldn't pin down what, exactly!

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, you just described my middle school. With the vapid gals, I mean.

But as for what sparkleblsm said, I go to an all-girl school, and it really isn't that filled with morons. On the contrary, it's filled with insecure, anal-retentive academics who obsess over every point of their grades. ::sighs happily:: Just like me. ^^

I do hope the class gets better, though. If not ... well ... I had a teacher in my sophomore year of high school who overexplained everything. I perfected the art of writing fanfics but making it look like I was taking notes that year. XD

And hey, what's wrong with Charlotte Bronte?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

There's nothing at all wrong with Bronte (I happen to like her), but I suspect that she and Austen may have something to do with the extraordinary number of girly-girls in that class. Or maybe I'm completely off-base... I just don't know what else could be the determining factor.

That's exactly what I did in my boring-as-all-hell Colonial American Lit class last quarter. So at least I've got practice.....

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's the factor - all the people I know who like Bronte and Austen are real geeks but very lovely people. But then, I don't associate much with the kind of people you were describing. No patience, you know?

You can perfect your technique! ^____^

Love your new icon.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that's true... I don't either, so I guess we'll never really know. ;)

Thanks!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

ermmm...YIKES.
the class should be easy, it will be putting up with your peers that will be trying. Just think, you're building patience. :P

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

They might not be as bad as it seemed, I just got icky vibes off most of them. Ah well. Yes, building patience! Definitely something I need more work on. *Nods*

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

So...I have help on the computer, your little man has decided that it is very important for him to be ON the copmuter while I am writing or doing things on the computer. He's so cute, but he's soo big, it's so funny to try to work around him. and he looks at me like he'strying to be so patient with me. he is laying stretched out between the keyboard and the monitor.
I don't get it, but he is very comfy here. He is saying, write something to my Mommy for me...So, "Hi Mommy, I miss you" from your little man.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lol. He does have an amazing ability to look long-suffering and patient, doesn't he? Silly expressive cats.

"Hello, baby boy!"

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[zhapper.livejournal.com]

Ahh, idiot girls. They make up so much of higher education. I spent the first 10 minutes of one of my classes listening to a Joan Rivers-esque commentary on the fashion faux pas of my fellow class mates from the girls behind me. Then, I learned that one was to pick up the new Lexus today. Finally, with a resolute zip from her fantastically new messenger bag, one of them began loudly describing the condition of a pair of underwear she had removed from the bag. She said, and I quote, "Can you believe these used to be white?"

Her friend replied, "Really! They're so piiiink."

She countered, "I must've washed 'em with a red sock, chica."

Her friend, giggling, replied, "Damn, they're not white now; I hate ruining a thong."

Though I was tempted to turn around and observe the tradgedy of the ruined undergarment, I also had my own pride to think of. Who knows what kinds of words and phrases I would use to describe these people to their faces. Dullards of the worst insipid, shallow, and narcissistic nature would break down would be driven to tears to hear these girls utter the lingua franca of the three car garage - an utter butchery of English, a language betrayed in the horrible abattoir of the suburbs.

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[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

The thing that really horrifies me is that they really are what the rest of the world is made up of, too. Just older. And with children. It's an endless cycle of stupidity and vapid fascination with fashion.

The worst thing, for a girl, is having that niggling "damn... she really does look a hell of a lot better than me" in the back of one's head. No matter how many times you try to squash it with "well, yes, but I clearly got more sleep and more intellectual stuff done in the time that she spent getting her hair done and putting on perfect makeup," society's norms just won't quit battering at the back door.

And to think - I'm thought of as one of the girlier girls in my circle.

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[zhapper.livejournal.com]

You'd really be surprised. The worst offenders aren't attractive in the slightest because, as a guy, I know that they're doing it for each other. Of course it's nice when girls dress up, but frosted curls in exactly the right place, day in and day out, signify an attempt at artifice that just isn't sustainable. It seems compulsive, like a mental illness. It's extremely disconcerting to know that these people operate in a culture that's completely foreign to me. The boys they date are for status and it's likely they'll never communicate with someone on a level deeper than their immediate emotional needs or their wants. It's almost like sociopathy, but stemmed from a commercial, artificial society.

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[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ooo, interesting way of looking at it! I'd always wondered how the hell that sort of high-strung obsessive-compulsive plastic sort of look was appealing to guys, but the idea that it's not, but rather for their female friends/rivals actually seems to make sense in a twisted sort of way.

There's a line between dressing up sometimes and dressing up all the time that a lot of these girls seem to miss. Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I like to think that most guys want a girl they can relax with sometimes, but who still is willing to dress up and look good when they take her to meet the boss/parents/what-have-you, or for a night out. ;)