Sian

All I can say is...

Thank Gd his nostrils are both the same size.  One of my philosophy profs had a habit of sitting on the edge of the desk, dead center, in the front of the classroom, and practically right on top of the first row, and we all wound up spending most of the Spinoza class thinking about what lop-sided nostrils he had.  One was about 166% of the other.  It was freakish.  This guy does the same thing, but his nostrils are within one standard deviation of eachother, and besides... due to a stroke of luck, I am not in the first row.

I spent most of today working my way through class using a different grammar than everybody else in the world.  The one he assigned is satanic.  The one I have--love, adore...  the grammar which would be permitted to father my children, if it shewed any inclination...  well, it's different.  I'm going to spend the weekend trying to figure out how to mesh what I learned, what I rely on, what I really am devoted to--with the other one.  Well, at least I have some idea of where to start.  I'll call somebody, and hash it out. 

Not him.  Not Symmetrical Nostril Man.

Worst part of it is that when I realized what was going on, I realized what I had done.

I'm working, more or less from a manuscript of an old prof's (still unpublished book).

And the particular point I wound up bringing up--the one I was called on--the one that-- and I really am shouting praises to Gd here--he didn't catch, and told me I was wrong on...  That point.  It's got to be one of the major innovations of the book.

So, maybe I won't be selling the Satanic Grammar back.

I could be in such deep shit, if I keep talking about the other book.

And yes, the pseudonymn "Dr. Symmetry" is probably going to stick.

posted by: SianNorah at 18:19 | link | comments (2)
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#1  11 September 2005 - 06:25

 

Um, I'm a stripper with a 3.71 GPA. I had a 4.0 one semester with five classes. I have six classes now and they aren't basketweaving. Most people, including my professors, know what I do to keep myself in food and roof so I can finish school. My major is Anthropology, and in case you haven't read my innersanctum blog, I speak three languages fluently and am almost fluent in a fourth and currently studying two more. So, hey, if you ever have to strip, it'll be a pain in the ass, but if YOU HAVE what it TAKES, no one is going to put you down or pass you over for ever having stripped. If you know your shit, you're in. If you don't, yeah maybe they can use it against you.

*smiles*

alohalani

#2  11 September 2005 - 06:27

 

*coughs* So, umm, does that make me stereotypical? And yes, I shove as many frickin' dollars into my g-string and garter belt as I can. It pays my mortgage. *shrugs*

alohalani

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