#ecls

Unfortunately, this means I have to be an ECLS major (that's fancy college code for English major.  That's right, computer whizzes.  We made our own HTML).  I want you to prance back to the beginning of this paragraph-thing and notice the word "unfortunately."  Becoming an English major, does, in fact, feel like soft core masochism.  I am sentencing myself to four years of essays, analyses, grammar corrections, messy (yet still hurtful) margin comments, and reading assignments that are basically, "read the whole damn book, will you?"  

Also, people think (read: know) I'm crazy.  Telling someone I am an aspiring English major  seems akin to lugging around a cardboard box and crying out, "hey you wan' a tour of my house?" People first ask if I will be a teacher, and when I say that, no, probably not, since why would I want an occupation that's at least somewhat beneficial to humanity, they proceed to ask what I would like to be.  And then, and this is no joke, I actually just make something up.  I sputter out a few go-to words like "journalism" or "editor" or "that person who writes novels in three weeks and then just goes to glamorous parties for the rest of the year, yes, that person in my head who may not exist but who looks damn good in her pretentious beret."  It's nonsense.  It's no sense.  It's paying an absurd amount of money for a diploma that will, ultimately, make for a quirky cootie catcher art project.

But I simply do not like other subjects enough to study them for long periods of time.  I personally find geology to be a practical joke and theater to be full of classes that I would only attend if I wanted to embarrass myself so horrifically and so frequently as to emotionally scar both myself and my witnesses.  And history?  Has anyone noticed how many teachers and professors brag about "not going to force people to memorize dates.*"  Like they are imaginative geniuses for realizing that specific numbers do not help to develop critical thinking or aid in fostering understanding for the Greater Scheme of Things.  (this is a mega-joke. i may become a history minor because hot damn, humans be cray and i like learning about their past shenanigans.)  But basically, I'm just like Dumbledore and Harry is my man through and through except instead of Harry it's ECLS and instead of man it is major and I'm sorry, I wanted to inject some references into this smorgasbord of random.

Start:     Jul 23, '07 7:30pEnd:     Sep 10, '07