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YES YES YES WORK FOR DISTINCTION THESIS IDEA CAME TO ME IN LECTURE TODAY (actually my professor responded to a comment I made with a very pointed "SOMEONE COULD WRITE A REALLY GOOD PAPER ON THAT IF THEY WOULD COME TALK TO ME ABOUT IT"). I WILL NOT FAIL.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

get in there!

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I've had an anthology of American film critics for about 4 months, and am around p. 20 (Carl Sandburg reviewing silents).

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

my favorite english teacher in high school used to say that Anna Karenina "isn't a book you read, it's a book you live in." 19th century novel is where my heart is, so I had to decide not to work on it.

xpost yay Jessie!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

horseshoe are you in english grad school? I mean grad school for english lit, not grad school in england.

I think the really gross, sad, pathetic thing about at least me, if not other current/future/past grad students is how we really really like to talk about school and class and papers on ghost-worship in Taiwan and really boring shit.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been rereading the same couple books over and over again, haven't touched recent fiction in years...

i intended to pick up the new pynchon but i should probably just go back and try mason and dixon again

or, you know, keep rereading nabokov and saki

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

also a very large beartrap to gbx: I can top your biology lab. In political geography (I have to take this class to graduate), I have learned that there is, in fact, OIL in the middle east and it is, in fact, of political significance.

I don't read books that aren't about Asia anymore. :( I still read comics sometimes tho.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I am in grad school for english lit, Jessie, yes. also known as pointless will never got a job school.

I know, I can now at least recognize the faraway look normal people get when I end up talking about you know, everything I talk about. English grad students=worst because we take stuff everyone loves like books + TV and make it stupid.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

try m&d again!

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

that's okay i spent 15 minutes the other day (ie last night) discussing how you'd secure an airway on a guy that, say, just sustained a bullet wound in his trachea

beartrap i was doing v v well on Mason and Dixon this fall, and then midterms showed up. i was really enjoying it! ;_;

trappin' that's why i sorta gave up on english majoring, duder

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

and drowning in self-loathing about it doesn't seem to stop us from doing it, as you can see. ANYWAY.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

When I get really drunk I talk about governance in east asia, like, a lot. :( I think I went on for like an hour once.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

nah, everybody talks shop, ghost-worship in taiwan is interesting! it's just.. what depressed the hell out of me was that the goal of grad school was to specialize to the point that nobody can even TALK to you and in order to do that you had to spend many hours in libraries also not really getting to talk to anyone

maybe I should reread moby dick

speaking of which.. who wants to go get some kabob?

― daria-g, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

that is awesome, though, Jessie, at least you have a body of knowledge!!! same to you, gbx

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

beartrap i know i should mw! i basically quit it -- along with tristam shandy, which is kinda even more sad -- when i got a real job!

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i know a lot about blogs now :/

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love to reread moby dick at a glacial pace when my stupid exams are over.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh dude shit tristam shandy, i was going to try to read that this summer, but i was looking at it a few sundays ago and there's noooo way. too many dashes

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

the last book i read was like maybe 130 pgs and i still struggled to get through it even though i enjoyed it so i just give up, basically.

maybe i should just bring books to work and openly read them in the office and ignore everyone else.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

omg daria is so 8080 about the ultimate goal of grad school it is hilarious.

at least I find other people's subjects to be extremely fascinating as well; this is my one saving grace.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I disapprove of the 18th century for precisely that reason. spastic punctuation and spelling and capitalization.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i'll talk about pretty much anything when i'm drunk, guys

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

also i stopped reading the new pynchon somewhere in the middle when the semester started up again, i don't think i'll be going back. it was entertaining, but not like m&d

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I read all of I Am Legend over Christmas break! I just remembered! I also got like 50 pages into V and then I landed in Boston and funtime was over.

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Ally, when I was working in DC, I got to that point. I just stuck my novel underneath my keyboard and was pretty shameless about reading it.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the only pynchon books i've successfully complete are Vineland and Lot 49

one of these was much, much better than the other one

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I really ought to be reading books on the subway to and from work but instead I just read the EXPRESS cover to cover which is a totally inane waste of eveyone's time since we watch CNN and MSNBC in here all day and I already know all of it except the bits about Trans Am coming back and a couple of other local interest indie dork tales

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and it was totally fuckin A

hahaha Indie Dork Tales

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

are we drinking today?

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

tristam shandy has lots of dashes but it's v funny! i'm a little less than half through i guess but still.

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean who in the world is interested in deleuze theory on baroque space + 17th century french theater? I'm not even that interested in it unless obligated, to be honest, because.. I mean what do I do with it? Moliere doesn't need any more criticism, I don't think many writers do, it'd be interesting if I were a stage manager and could stage a production about all this tartuffery in the nation's capital but otherwise.. a quoi bon?!

I know a lot about blogs b/c of all the hours I spent reading them instead of doing term papers..

― daria-g, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

we certainly are drinking today, i'm having a beer right now

beartrap lololol "all this tartuffery"

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I know a lot about blogs b/c of all the hours I spent reading them instead of doing term papers..

8080!!!!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Updike's prose is so beautiful. It took me a while to slog through Rabbit, Run, but the rest of the series is a lot breezier, and there's something so awesome about returning to the same character every ten years and seeing what he's up to. The other three books in the tetralogy are also a lot more about the American cultural landscape, and how Rabbit fits or doesn't fit into it, than the first one is.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i would have farce with all this hypocrites

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i guess i can talk about the relative merits of limestone v. granite, or a maritime snowpack v. continental snowpack, but that's bro-y and everyone's eyes usually glaze over.

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc OTM

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

wait a minute, i was supposed to NOT waste time on the internets today, wtf.

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

start a TS: Limestome vs Granite" thread

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

only punctuate it consistently, wtf

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god I never want to see the words maritime or continental again. :/ I hate you, geography.

I should be studying for a midterm right now!

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, that would actually be pretty funny

beartrap i love geography ;_;

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, the prose is beautiful. and it's a really smart book, so it's not, like, emptily beautiful. but I just want out of Rabbit's head, basically.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE A FINAL FOR ME? I GIVE YOU TEN DOLLAR. beartrap

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

only if you will take my organic chemistry test

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

and as i recall the second one, Rabbit Redux is sorta lame but the other three are super.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

actually, no, let's not do that

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I studied some orgo in high school! I would probably get you a high F!

― jessie monster, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

horseshoe pretty 8080 re rabbit

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

okay dudes i'm out of here. otherwise i fail at getting into medical school and my life will be IN SHAMBLES

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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