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I just woke from a dream in which I was throwing a temper tantrum over yet another math test.
The funny thing is, in real life, I'm greatly enjoying the math classes (sure, I have finals Friday and Monday, but I don't particularly mind them). In real life the temper tantrums are very quiet, brief, and directed against my dull, bill paying job.
What I _want_ to do is take more math classes, and work less. Better yet, I would like to pose as a math professor right away. Would anyone notice if I kidnapped one and simply took over his teaching responsibilities?
December 15 2005, 20:50:01 UTC 6 years ago
Probably. Unless you chose someone spectacularly boring. But, to escape notice, you would have to be equally boring. Which would likely be difficult.
Oh, and you might need to fake a moustache. Depending on the level you wanted to teach.
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December 15 2005, 21:04:18 UTC 6 years ago
December 15 2005, 21:17:09 UTC 6 years ago
Hence a sense of violence toward the tests, especially when one has no doubt a sense of pent-up rage from the nature of said dull bill-paying job, is only to be expected.
(I have been reading Steven Brusts's The Phoenix Guards today, and it has affected my diction in a most embarrassing way.)
December 15 2005, 23:27:52 UTC 6 years ago
It's funny how easy it is to pick up voices from reading, isn't it? {Stentorian voice here}: You are the avatar of the authors you read, bodying forth their visions wittingly or no. Choose your reading material wisely!
To change the subject, though, last night I was surprised by an old guy who didn't sound dead at all. Mark Twain's autobiography is written in a voice that would be perfectly ordinary in a current NYTimes opinion article, or a post by a reasonably well educated blogger. I kept misreading his dates with 19s instead of 18s, just because the correct century seemed too unlikely.
December 16 2005, 00:05:51 UTC 6 years ago
It could be entertaining to take his work and post it piecemeal on a blog, with the correct dates and everything (but a fair number of hyperlinks, and so on). Given how trenchant his social commentary still is, I'll bet his blog would get read even though the work is as old as it is.
December 16 2005, 00:24:08 UTC 6 years ago
dead bloggers
Oh, that could be fun! The Diaries of Samuel Pepys might be a good choice too. I suspect they would be easier to read, one entry per day along with one's other blog reading, than in big fat books from the library which sorely lack the plotting of a novel to carry you along.December 16 2005, 01:10:48 UTC 6 years ago
Re: dead bloggers
Done, and done! This is something I discovered about three days ago:http://www.pepysdiary.com/
December 16 2005, 03:30:10 UTC 6 years ago
Re: dead bloggers
neat, thanks!December 16 2005, 17:03:40 UTC 6 years ago
December 20 2005, 20:49:57 UTC 6 years ago