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August 20, 2002

could this be an update?

So I start my classes in a few days. Of course, everything is retarded right now and do I know my class schedule yet? No! Of course not! Why would I? Apparently, I get to register for classes *after* they start, and get to wrestle (or wrassle as I like to say) with the freshmen for the choice classes. Hopefully, this will be some sort of wild girl-on-girl catfight with mud and lesbians, because as we all know, most 17 and 18 year old girls are at least bi-sexual.

This brings me to my latest problem. I hate college girls. Specifically, about 18 years old. Like, freshmen and their even worse counterparts, sophomores. Seriously, I hate college girls so much. I would go so far as to say that I prefer the drunken girls gone wild sluts to the serious, liberal-arts-feminist-but-I-suck-cock-"I hate Columbus"-self-righteous race traitors. You know who I mean, the girls who are as white as, well, me, yet cry about their oppression because they just found out that they are 1/10th native american or croatian or something.

The best part about college girls is when they have "round table discussions" and sit around and talk about things like gender, class issues, race, and sex work. Now I am not going to deny it, for my first couple of weeks of liberal arts college, I sat around on my fat ass and waxed philosophical about my political pet peeves. It didn't take long, however, for me to realize that you can talk (or type) forever, and it accomplishes nothing. Raising awareness is shit--go out and do something. Not marching around in your Doc Martens, but actually put in a few hours of volunteer work now and again.

I mean, how can you take someone's opinion seriously when they have never supported themselves? Or even met the people that they are "fighting for" or making judgements about? I guess you can't blame young people for having a lack of experience, but at the same time, listening to them spout off about things they have no experience with is annoying. Painful even, at times.

My mother always tells me that whenever you get really annoyed about a certain aspect of someone's personality, it is usually because you can recognize something about it in yourself. And maybe that's it. I am embarrassed about the college girl I once was, going to Sleater-Kinney shows and pontificating about women's rights. And I am terrified to be back in a liberal arts college full time once again. But I took 5 years off from college, and now am a lean, mean, hating machine. Look out!

Is there something wrong with me????

Anyway, my classes are starting soon, so I have to get all my "fun" reading in right now while I still can. I am working 3 different books at the moment--here they are:
-Nobrow : The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture
-The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
-Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books

Okay, I'm a dork. ;)
If anyone expresses an interest, I will try and update what I am reading on a regular basis because I read a whole bunch.

Also, for the 3 people that have signed up for my notification list, should I send notifications every time I update? Or just when I do something special, like post a photo album or a great story about a retard? Post a comment, k?

Posted by Lina at 11:22 AM | Comments (17)
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