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adiva_calandia) wrote2007-01-29 05:02 pm
adiva_calandia) wrote2007-01-29 05:02 pm
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wtf exhaustion.
Two academia related events of the day:
1) I was sitting in the computer lab working away on my peer-taught proposal when an eighth grader, C, comes and sits next to me (C is a sweet kid, if rather socially clueless, whose voice sounds like he's been smoking a pack a day since he was six).
"You're a good candidate to ask this question to," he says. "Where did English come from?"
I kind of stared at him for a second and then explained that English comes from everywhere, it knocks out other languages and rifles through their pockets.
"Oh, but I read that Anglo Saxon, he was the first guy to speak real English."
. . . Anglo-Saxon is a group of people, I explained, and googled it to prove it to him.
"Oh, okay. See, I'm doing this handbook on English and I want to have a one-page summary of where English came from."
I stared at him again, then babbled a bit more about the evolution of language, Germanic influence, Latin influence, Romance languages, how he could look at things geographically and at which groups conquered England when, and then it was time to go to my next class.
*pats C* Poor kid. Probably got more than he bargained for.
2) Driving home from the used bookstore with the sister and her Boy and the parents, sister described all the science and math related books she and the Boy had just bought. I said, laughing, that I felt pretty out-geeked, but I'd just spent my time reading Sandman analysis, so that probably made up for it.
I added that what I really need to get my hands on are some of the books analyzing Firefly, and Mom, sounding surprised, asked if such things exist.
Well, yeah, I told her. Joss Whedon has a whole corner of academia to himself, between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. Mom still sounded surprised that there were people really analyzing Firefly, though.
"Um, yeah. I hang out with a bunch of them online on a regular basis."
"Do you do any of that analyzing yourself?"
"Not to the extent they do." Here, I almost started in on either a discussion of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shati's thoughts on race in the FFverse, or pointing out that I mostly analyze children's books from mythological, archetypal, educational, and spiritual standpoints, but the conversation moved on and I was too tired to form the thoughts coherently, anyway.
Productive day, I'd say. Got some college app stuff distributed, got a sponsor for my peer-taught, and saw the rest of Cool Hand Luke.
And now I'm going to take a nap.
Two academia related events of the day:
1) I was sitting in the computer lab working away on my peer-taught proposal when an eighth grader, C, comes and sits next to me (C is a sweet kid, if rather socially clueless, whose voice sounds like he's been smoking a pack a day since he was six).
"You're a good candidate to ask this question to," he says. "Where did English come from?"
I kind of stared at him for a second and then explained that English comes from everywhere, it knocks out other languages and rifles through their pockets.
"Oh, but I read that Anglo Saxon, he was the first guy to speak real English."
. . . Anglo-Saxon is a group of people, I explained, and googled it to prove it to him.
"Oh, okay. See, I'm doing this handbook on English and I want to have a one-page summary of where English came from."
I stared at him again, then babbled a bit more about the evolution of language, Germanic influence, Latin influence, Romance languages, how he could look at things geographically and at which groups conquered England when, and then it was time to go to my next class.
*pats C* Poor kid. Probably got more than he bargained for.
2) Driving home from the used bookstore with the sister and her Boy and the parents, sister described all the science and math related books she and the Boy had just bought. I said, laughing, that I felt pretty out-geeked, but I'd just spent my time reading Sandman analysis, so that probably made up for it.
I added that what I really need to get my hands on are some of the books analyzing Firefly, and Mom, sounding surprised, asked if such things exist.
Well, yeah, I told her. Joss Whedon has a whole corner of academia to himself, between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. Mom still sounded surprised that there were people really analyzing Firefly, though.
"Um, yeah. I hang out with a bunch of them online on a regular basis."
"Do you do any of that analyzing yourself?"
"Not to the extent they do." Here, I almost started in on either a discussion of
shati's thoughts on race in the FFverse, or pointing out that I mostly analyze children's books from mythological, archetypal, educational, and spiritual standpoints, but the conversation moved on and I was too tired to form the thoughts coherently, anyway.Productive day, I'd say. Got some college app stuff distributed, got a sponsor for my peer-taught, and saw the rest of Cool Hand Luke.
And now I'm going to take a nap.
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Heee!
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I own Finding Serenity, a book of essays analyzing Firefly that came out well before the movie. It's about 25% crap, 35% stuff that's obvious to any halfway analytical eye, 25% pretty interesting, and 15% SOLID GOLD. The one about the visual details and the one about the music are particularly good. The one about the Reavers is fascinating, even though it turned out to be wrong in at least one fundamental particular. Don't bother with the one about chivalry in the 'verse unless you're in a mood to be either irritated or amused by the sheer cluelessness.
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This is the funniest thing in the history of ever. I keep envisioning some guy named Anglo Saxon wandering around speaking this brand-new language, and no one understands him. *g*
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