Yeah, I know, everyone wants me to shut up about politics and do more about Miley Cyrus and the annoying people at the coffee shop. Unfortunately, though, I have not had time to even enter the coffee shop in over a week, and Miss Miley seems to be able to keep herself adequately covered.
Today’s subject wanders into the realm of the classroom and is less about being informed about politics. (For more information on that subject, please see Sedgewick’s comment on my post about Bush bashing). Let me give you a rundown of the people in my class. (For those of you who remember my Facebook blogging days- this is something like my rants about why I hate women although now I hate everyone).
I know only one person in my class, and I wish I didn’t know her. So, for the purposes of this blog we will give everyone a name I deem appropriate.
1. and 2. There are two boys (and no, they are not guys or men) that do nothing but make ignorant comments and play flash based games on their laptops. Currently, they are watching YouTube videos (with volume on) and giggling like little girls. If I had to guess, I’d say their names were something like Josh and Matt. Nothing that stands out. You can tell they were the totally uncool but wannabe cool kids in high school that decided when they got to college they’d make everyone think they had been cool.
Final judgment: Utterly annoying.
3. We’ll call her Agnes and I’ll explain why in a minute. This girl has a Political Science degree from Boston College. Judging from the size of the rock on her wedding ring finger and her obviously married last name, “Parkson” she found a rich white guy to marry and now she gets to sit in classes all day. So the first question this girl poses is, why is she in a government class? Well, this, my dear friends is the byproduct of the Texas legislature. Even if you already have a degree, if you go to school in the state of Texas you have to take a Texas Government class. The problem is, there isn’t enough information to fill a semester so the result is American Government with a dash of Texas. It’s lovely. So the reason I call her Agnes is because she’s Asian, and there this hilarious pattern with immigrant Asians. When they come to the US, a name like Chu-dong or MinLing won’t really do so well, and they think they’ll get made fun of, right? So at this point in their probably non-English speaking life, they pick a name off a list of American names and use it. The hilarious part is, this list must be from the 1920s because the names are always something like Frank, Albert, Agnes, Cornelia.. names Americans don’t use today. I think it’s great. The reason “Agnes” sticks out to me is because she is a typical Asian student. The professor says, “make you sure you check out the list of readings before Exam 1.” Agnes says, “So do we have to do the readings before the exam or are they on the exam?” “Will they be graded?” “Is it okay if I write on my test?” Asian people crack me up. My grandfather says it is the result of coming from a society where every aspect of life is controlled. When they come to a society like ours where everything is free and relatively unstructured. They don’t know what to do with themselves.
Final judgment: Seriously, Boston College? I thought better of that school.
4. This girl is also Asian, but I suspect she was born here because she is a little too Americanized. We’ll call her Jane. She sits through the entire class and surfs the web on her rhinestoned iPod touch. When it gets close to the time class is over, she’ll pack up loudly and say “umm, it’s time to go.” Like the professor, who has a doctorate and is a Fulbright scholar, doesn’t know how to read a clock. I think that is rude and disrespectful.
Final judgment: idiot
There are more but I think I’ve passed the daily limit of how much judgment can be passed. More to come!
3 Comments
Uhhmm…Johnny Smith? I’ve got a question for you. Is your cock not big enough that you feel you have to post your own judgemental comments in order to make you feel better about yourself? Why does it matter to you what she says about people you probably don’t even know? And you couldn’t even use your own name, which suggests further insecurites (and don’t try to pass it off as your real name — there may be a lot of prize idiots in this country, but NONE of them are stupid enough to name their child “John Smith” because I am sure that there isn’t one of them who doesn’t watch at least one of the CSIs or Law and Orders)!
Since we’re doling out suggestions here, or rather “just our $0.02″ (seriously? do you not know how to use a keyboard and make it type a ¢ sign?), I would suggest to you, dear Johnny Boy, to not waste anybody’s time by coming back here in the future. That, or grow a dick.
Whoa!
I’m making my nightly rounds of blogs tonight and run into THIS hissy fit? I GOTS to wade into this one.
Gonna have to side with Brenda on this one, Johnny; that is a pretty uninspired fake name you’re sporting there. Then again, that paints me a bit of a hypocrite in that I’m using a pseudonym. I have to, you see, because my real name is Joe Q. Public. If I post under THAT name, NO one will ever take me seriously.
Gonna have to side AGAINST Brenda on the whole penis reference. What if Johnny doesn’t have a wanker (see one of my other posts for source on that… shameless self-plug) and, instead, is a member of the distaff? Suggestion to, therefore, ‘grow a dick’ might just be outside of “Johnny’s” power. Also, I don’t know how to type the cent sign on my computer, but I’m willing to learn.
(Confession: Brenda (if that’s you’re real name), I had a full-on belly laugh at your reference to ‘prize idiots.’ I have this visual of some timid 4H family from Toad Suck Ferry, Arkansas or something. GAD, that’s funny.
Okay. Back to the blog here. I’m sensing tension. Perhaps some unresolved angst from youth or something. In that this is Caitlin’s blog (If Caitlin is HER real name), she can say whatever she wants, really. Her observations are her own and, critical though they may be, are the world through HER eyes. While you may attend this blog, you are not equipped to criticize someone else’s viewpoint. Disagree, yes. Critique, no.
Personally, I don’t think Brenda is the author (is that HER real name?) – her diction is different and grammatical structure suggests she’s probably not even from the same part of the country. She writes very northern US.
Look at old Sedgewick, getting all CSI on you there….
Anyway, “Caitlin” can judge who she wishes on her blog. Caitlin… you are hereby denied permission to go to Johnny Smith’s blog and make sweeping judgements about his writings.
There. That settles that. Prize idiots…. still cracks me up. Brenda (or whomever), may I borrow that turn of phrase? Truly a diamond in the rough.
Sedgewick hath opined.
My, my. I feel I have not held up my end in this comment war. I feel honoured more than I can express that Sedgewick has come to my defense of the defense of dear Caitlin.
I think it’s funny that “Johnny” seems to think there is only one indvidual in today’s world who is bitter. Does he not realize that society as we know has become a collective of cynics? Every time there is a new technology or breakthrough in science, news magazines and blogs alike are immediately shooting it down with an endless tirade of it’s flaws. So just because we both seem to be bitter doesn’t mean that we are actually the same person.
Plus, it’s like Sedgewick said. I’ve got a northern US writing style. Which, I would like to know what that is. Seriously. That intrigues me. I’ve always thought about going into linguistics to study the variations of English. But then I decided not to.