You are a Marxist! A pissed-off cultural geologist,
you think everything is about class levels and
social strata. You enjoy discussing labor
unionism, the conservatization of the working
class, the ideological state apparatus, Raymond
Williams, Herbert Marcuse, the Frankfurt
School, and taking long walks on the beach.
Someday you will find a way to raise and
sustain the revolutionary consciousness, but
until then you will wear black and hang out in
radical cafes.


What kind of literary critic are you?
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Date:	2004-11-10 00:44
Subject:	levels of my hell
Security:	Public
Mood:	gloomy

I am an Intellectual



Which America Hating Minority Are You?

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I am apparently only

48.12623% - Super Geek

(kind of was hoping for more, really...)

Discover your own geekness:
http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

Date:	2004-07-13 17:25
Subject:	another fun test
Security:	Public
Mood:	recumbent

Wackiness: 48/100
Rationality: 62/100
Constructiveness: 60/100
Leadership: 56/100


You are an SRCL--Sober Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you an Ayn Rand ideal. Taggart? Roark? Galt? You are all of these. You were born to lead. You may not be particularly exciting, but you have a strange charisma--born of intellect and personal drive--that people begin to notice when they have been around you a while. You don't like to compromise, but you recognize when you have to.

You care absolutely nothing what other people think, and this somehow attracts people to you. Treat them well, use them wisely, and ascend to your rightful rank.

Take the 20 Questions to a Better Personality quiz.

Date:	2004-05-12 22:06
Subject:	Interesting...
Security:	Public
Mood:	okay

Date:	2004-04-27 17:29
Subject:	hmmm...who knew?
Security:	Public
Mood:	okay

Date:	2004-04-23 23:58
Subject:	random quizzes
Security:	Public
Mood:	awake

You're Texas!

You aren't really much of your own person, but everyone around
you wishes you'd go away, so you might as well be independent.  You're
sort of loud-mouthed and abrasive, but you do have a fair amount of power.  You
like big trucks, big cattle, and big oil rigs.  And sometimes you really
smell.  But it's not all bad, you're big enough to have some soft spots
somewhere in all that redneck madness.
Take the Country
Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

You're Lolita!

by Vladimir Nabokov

Considered by most to be depraved and immoral, you are obsessed with
sex. What really tantalizes you is that which deviates from societal standards in every
way, though you admit that this probably isn't the best and you're not sure what causes
this desire. Nonetheless, you've done some pretty nefarious things in your life, and
probably gotten caught for them. The names have been changed, but the problems are real.
Please stay away from children.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Date:	2004-03-14 19:59
Subject:	Who knew?
Security:	Public
Mood:	indifferent

Come get your fortune read!

Created by ptocheia

Date:	2004-03-12 12:38
Subject:	Henry James question
Security:	Public
Mood:	grumpy

My friend bandersnatch_02 posted a good question, that I will now reiterate: What in the crap does Henry James want/mean to his readers? This is the topic (and that is really all we know about it) for our next James seminar. Needless to say, I'm between no knowing and not caring right now... So, discuss amongst yourselves, I expect answers in the next few days...

Date:	2004-03-12 12:32
Subject:	quiet
Security:	Public
Mood:	gloomy

I've been quiet on here for a while. Just fiddling with my main blog, Badly Drawn Penguin, a lot. I guess I've just been feeling out of sorts recently, with no one to really talk to about it. It seems like nothing in my life is quite so exciting as in other, or quite or scandalous, or repugnant, or obscene. A lot of people around me either seem to have a lot on their plates, or at least are able to make the little they have seem well worth talking/worrying about. I just wonder where that leaves the rest of us--the quiet receptacles of all that is wrong/crazy/fucked up in the world. Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for more drama. I'm just wondering if people know how to live without drama. What a strange little world it would be, if people were just content to live their lives... Oh, the shock and humanity of it all... I mean, then we might even get to know each other, and not the raving, emotional wreck versions of ourselves that so many people put out there. Just a thought...

Date:	2004-02-29 13:39
Subject:	wow...um...wow...
Security:	Public
Mood:	shocked

So, it is totally overwhelming to me how quickly I can get behind on work. I just don't care about some things. And those are the things that take hours and hours. For example, I'm 3 stacks of papers behind for my students (soon to be 4 on Monday). That's 24 kids per stack, at least 4 hours per stack--assuming I can do them fast. The Henry James stuff is going faster than I thought it would, but I never seem to have time to prepare for class anymore. I'm getting a little worried about that, it seems bad policy to be grading so much that you have nothing productive to say/do in class. Is that just me? I like grad school and all, but this teaching two courses business sucks my ass. Just saying. On a totally unrelated not, Moby rules!!!

Date:	2004-02-05 18:39
Subject:	slipping-sliding only good in summer
Security:	Public
Mood:	calm

I just want to say that sidewalks are slippery, and that is sad. I saw another girl fall pretty solidly today, though this one got up much quicker than the last one I saw. I forget about the dangers of sidewalks every year--strange that I get angry at those who claim this snow/cold thing is new--it just seems like people would be able to easily traverse campus in this kind of weather (since you know it happens, and you rarely hear of mass deaths of college students across the midwest due to ice-falling incidents)...hmmm...thanks, campus...for once, the Daily Illini is right to bitch about something.

Date:	2004-01-26 20:13
Subject:	Waaaaa!!! States!!!
Security:	Public
Mood:	crazy

I've been to states....



create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Date:	2004-01-25 20:54
Subject:	A quiet night
Security:	Public
Mood:	busy

Just kind of one of those quiet little nights that feels good. I'm in the middle of responding to my students' in-class responses, and taking a quick break. I suppose I don't really have much to say, other than that life is pretty peachy at the moment. I'm sure tomorrow, when I'm playing at school, some of the work will hit again, but for now, who can knock grad school, really? :) There's really just been a lot of reading and such recently, hanging out, good times. Let the fun continue...

Date:	2004-01-14 22:51
Subject:	Random rant
Security:	Public
Mood:	okay

So, I finally got through the paper, and most of the random work, and while I haven't just been staring at the wall, I must admit that relaxing has been treating me well. I have a bit to take care of by the start of classes, but nothing major (except syllabuses, and those just write themselves, right?) Today's post will focus on email etiquette and friendship. Let us begin.

1. It is not polite to email someone you say you care about and continually remind them of inadequacies that you perceive in their lives, or wrongs that you preceive them to have committed. This will not advance a friendship, and may indeed lead to hard feelings.

2. It is the responsiblity of the person writing the email to consider the feelings of the person it is addressed to. While it may be fun to tear of a rant and bitch out the recipient, this will not be the best use of a friendship (if the writer truly wants said friendship to continue).

3. Let things go, for fuck's sake. At times, there are unforgivable wrongs, but unless you are emailing Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Nero, or their ilk, you will have to let the past go at times, especially if your email's receiving party has made amends or apologized in whatever manner they can.

4. Drunk or high emails, while funny, are not excuses to dredge up the past and then innocently set back and say "well I'm sorry that I've dragged you back through all that stuff that you had gotten over, but I was drunk/high, and that's really all going to be your problem from now on. Deal..." This is inapropriate behaviour and should be dimissed from forms of acceptable communication.

5. Understand that taking a bitchy tone in an email will not always make your recipient so pleased. While your intent may be to damage your relationship with your email's recipient, you cannot claim later that your email did not mean to be written the way it was.

6. As stressful as life can be, note that it is best to deal honestly with that stress, not displace it into the text you send out to your friends. Those that are close to you would reather hear about what is making you stressed than any past issues the two of you may have had.

7. Finally, you are indeed responsible for the words you send out. They paint a verbal picture of you, and that picture is something you have to think about. This is not meant to constrain you honesty, but to make you realize what effects that honesty has on others. You friends want to be close to the real you, personally, verbally, textually--give them that. But if the real you is being a fucking asshole who cares more about yourself and what you can gain than about the relationship you supposedly care about, then good friends will see through your shitty, dumb little facade and tell you to fuck right the hell off.

If you follow these simple rules, you will have more honest, positive interactions with your friens and avoid those embarrasing situations where the two of you both pretend to care about the relationship, but secretly do not understand why the hell you both have persisted in maintaining the farce for so long. Cheers.

Date:	2004-01-07 18:28
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	grumpy

urrrrghhh...seminar papers...ewwww

Date:	2003-12-11 00:15
Subject:	Long day, long night
Security:	Public
Mood:	frustrated

I want to just be done. And sit alone. And stare at the wall, and relax about being done. Is that too much to ask? I just want some quiet, non-thought time. But instead, I'm writing chunks of another fucking seminar paper, knowing that a grand total of one (1) (ONE!) person will ever read it other than me. Lets just say that I'm not so happy right now. Anway, I just wanted to rant and say that graduate school is perhaps not really worth it every single day, and today is one of those days.

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Date:	2003-11-03 02:44
Subject:	it's late, and there's much to do...
Security:	Public
Mood:	sleepy

Eww...I grow tired, but bloggy goodness cannot wait. I feel like I'm running a little ragged recently. Just a lot of things running all around, and never getting to those blasted commitments. I have decided that the rest of the night (however long that might be) will be mine. I'm not sure if this post is going somewhere, so bear with. I'm glad I'm playing in the NaNoWriMo game. It's going to take a lot of time, but it's an interesting outlet for my energies, such as they are. I'm getting into a lot of new (and some old, but never forgotten) music again, which is helping with both inspiration and aesthetics. I forget sometimes in the mileu of random contemporary novels that i'm thrown against, that there really are good writers, singers, muscians, etc. out there, doing their thing. Take that, you pretentious writers. *shakes fist of righteous indignation* It's great to live this life, though. It's not 8-5 or anything, and there are no gaps between "work" and "relaxing", but I truly do like it. I get to chose where I want things to go; I get to determine what I want to work on. My life is mostly my own. I don't know if I could do the "work" thing anytime in the near future without some serious rebellion and breaking of things. So, I guess that's mystatement of the day: Yay grad school, ny for work left to be done fo rthe evening... :)