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Apr. 23rd, 2003 11:18 pmQuote of the day: "Random sex with the trolley-cart lady!! It'll solve everything!!!!"
Yeah. It's been *that* kind of day.
A little story about my English professor is in order, I believe. You see, he has this nasty habit of pulling questions out of nowhere. It's like sudden-death Trivial Pursuit. "Who made thus-and-such a comment about Jane Austen?" "What year was slavery outlawed in England?" All in a very serious tone, like he totally expects that if we don't know this we're uneducated morons.
So the other day, he asks "who said thus-and-such-a-thing about Milton's Paradise Lost?" And the quote sounded really familiar to me... but I had no idea. Neither did anyone else. Dead silence. So he prompts us--"roughly contemporaneous with Jane Austen, poet laureate for *some sections of years I don't remember*....?"
Still silence.
And I remember my TA from one of my previous English classes saying that William Wordsworth was poet laureate for a long time.... so I say that. And it was right!! Yay!!!!
But now he's saying I'm our history expert... and he expected me to know the answer to some totally random thing today.... and that's bad.
But I need to go to bed, now. I spent WAY too much time giggling with Kate over the state of the RP. So.... yeah. *Runs off, still chuckling*
Yeah. It's been *that* kind of day.
A little story about my English professor is in order, I believe. You see, he has this nasty habit of pulling questions out of nowhere. It's like sudden-death Trivial Pursuit. "Who made thus-and-such a comment about Jane Austen?" "What year was slavery outlawed in England?" All in a very serious tone, like he totally expects that if we don't know this we're uneducated morons.
So the other day, he asks "who said thus-and-such-a-thing about Milton's Paradise Lost?" And the quote sounded really familiar to me... but I had no idea. Neither did anyone else. Dead silence. So he prompts us--"roughly contemporaneous with Jane Austen, poet laureate for *some sections of years I don't remember*....?"
Still silence.
And I remember my TA from one of my previous English classes saying that William Wordsworth was poet laureate for a long time.... so I say that. And it was right!! Yay!!!!
But now he's saying I'm our history expert... and he expected me to know the answer to some totally random thing today.... and that's bad.
But I need to go to bed, now. I spent WAY too much time giggling with Kate over the state of the RP. So.... yeah. *Runs off, still chuckling*
