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Monday, March 23, 2009

I Guess I've Always Been Chatty and Stupid

The other day I wrote about reading The Chosen in pretend college (The Harvard on the Appomattox), which led me to blow dust off some of my old college papers and ask myself "Where was Xmastime's head in the early 90s?" (answer: between thighs; this was, after all, college)

My favorite class was one I took on Arthurian Literature, for several reasons: 1) I had read Le Morte d'Arthur one summer as a seventh grader, so I had a leg up on my class, 2) I got an A despite the professor being a complete battle axe 3) The book was once again thrilling to read 4) for some reason I was the only dude in a class of 29. Fucking awesome!

Anyways, I wrote a paper titled The Complexity of Arthur; a paper I have no desire to read but in looking at the prof's typed notes at the end I see that some things never change:
Your writing style is colloquial (the way we speak in casual situations) + wordy
Number one, of course she was right - no matter what the forum, I think I've always written as I speak, which drove some professors crazy while others loved it, and I never miss a chance to use 100 words when 10 will do. Probably a gift from my mother, who wasn't satisfied until she told the same story 4 times in a row. It's who I am. And yes I was gonna do a copy and paste here with that last sentence, but I know you people have lives to lead, so you're welcome.

So just now I'm kinda chuckling, remembering her getting after me about my "colloquial" style every time I turned in a paper, to which I'd be like well, it's the best paper in this class and I best be gettin' an A, when it dawns on me that in that comment she actually took the time to type out what "colloquial" meant!!!! Good lord....a 400-level class, in which I got an A and would DOMINATE the daily discussions, and after she wrote the word she actually thought to herself "you know, I better LITERALLY SPELL OUT WHAT THIS WORD MEANS for this idiot."

Fucking priceless.

I should call her up, have a laugh about it. But, she's prolly morte. C'est la vie!!!
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