. . . yeah. Haven't had much to say lately, really.

Gacked from spiritrover:


Create your own visited planets map

I just realized the previous post could be read as "depressed" when in actuality it was "sleep-deprived." So now that the nice relaxing hall meeting is over (no one has yet objected to me bringing teddy bear and blanket to them) here's some actual news from my "life", aka what I've been learning in my classes:

Sedimentation and Stratigraphy:
1. Stolichnaya is the most popular vodka brand, and it's good with Coke. Lime bacardi is also recommended. Gin is only for old ladies. Don't mix drinks.
2. It's amazing what my subconscious can do with a lecture about currents that go both ways and bed positions and cleavage and thrust faults and similar things when it's 9:00 in the morning and I'm drowsy. Spathic!

Español:
1. Yo puedo identificar, pero no puedo comprender, un acento cubano.
2. La profesora sabe mi nombre. No está una cosa buena.

Optical Mineralogy:
1. It is useful to be able to distinguish between halite and sylvite by taste. and I miss having to.
2. Nothing else, since *three* out of *five* lectures have been cancelled so far.

Technical Writing:
1. It is impossible to discuss RotK the movie without somebody, the more out-of-the-fandom the better, asking with a queer look on their faces just what exactly was up with Sam and Frodo.
2. So there's this girl who's a self-proclaimed LotR fanatic (she even pronounces it el-oh-tee-are, see), and she's utterly gobsmacked that anyone could think there was a special relationship between Legolas and Gimli. I finally pointed out that when they do things like renounce their kin and bargain with the Valar so that they can spend eternity together, it's probably more than simple friendship. (To be fair, her argument came down to "but one of them is a dwarf and the other one is played by Orlando Bloom!" Although why that would be an argument for heterosexuality is beyond me.) Anyway, she eventually decided that it's "just old-fashioned manly friendship. You know, warrior bonds." I smirked and said "precisely" and changed the subject.

Poetry Workshop:
1. There are people in the second year of an exclusive poetry writing program who don't know Browning. Or Keats. Or Burns. And Tseliot is a well-known turn-of-the century poet. From somewhere in Southeast Asia, I believe.
2. We had to read an interview with this National Book Award winning poet and she was griping about having to put disclaimers on her dramatic monologues because they counted as RPF. It is to laugh.