Yeah, so the satire final this morning was not a pretty thing. I may complain about it more later this afternoon, but right now, I’m laughing at the Country Quiz. (Hush, I don’t have to make sense. I just took a two and a half hour exam.)

You’re the United Nations!
Most people think you’re ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there’s always going to be a long way to go.  You’re always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and you get very schizophrenic as a result.  But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York.

Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

Mostly nonsense, of course, but a grain or two of truth to it, maybe, on a good day. I think it’s funny.

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My roommate and I went to see Furman theater’s latest production tonight. This one was a pair of related one-acts about people in a little town in Texas in about 1970. The first one was three women, the second was three men, and two of the former were married to two of the latter, which made things interesting. I think my favorite moment was when the third woman, Amy Lee appeared for the first time. One of the other women, Hattie, had been making nasty comments about how tacky Amy Lee’s clothes were and that her designer must be Ray Charles. And on walks Amy Lee, wearing the same dress as Hattie. It was really funny!

I’ve been playing caretaker this past week or so - Jen, my roomie, managed to damage her Achilles tendon on the stairs, so she’s on crutches and in physical therapy. This makes me Door-opener, Bed-maker, and DH Tray-holder extrordinaire, which is fine. With a little luck, the tendon will heal quickly, for her sake.

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That’s for those of you who have been complaining that I haven’t posted anything here in almost two weeks. They’ve been crazy ones too. The term’s all but over - exams are next week and I leave Wednesday to go home!

And THAT means that this morning was - at least according to current plans - the last math class I will ever sit through! (And I was even awake and coherent for it…heehee. Yesterday morning? Yeah, that was another story.)

I learned the other day that I’ve been accepted to the UK foreign study program for next fall - am very excited about it!

Work tends to be crazy this time of term, just as everyone’s projects and papers are about to be due. We were host to a minor soap opera this morning, though. Since Furman Hall is being rennovated, one half at a time, a lot of professors are having to move to other offices. Some of them will be moving into our temporary home after the CCLC moves back to the library this summer. Now, the offices where we are now are much nicer than the old ones in Furman Hall. So we’ve got various professors drooling over these offices and plotting about which one they just have to have. I get a kick out of it - they’re so serious, but it’s so silly.

We had our first almost-full run-through of Fiddler this week. Went pretty well, considering! I’m only in about five scenes, but it’s something, and I enjoy it.

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Dueled Crunch this evening - came out pretty close, but I lost this time. He knocked Odette unconcious before admitting that when he came out of rage, he had only 1 hit point. A good fight.

And just for fun…the first one I found on Stephanie’s blog, the other I just happened across.

Ballet shoes- beautiful, graceful, and creative,
you enjoy dancing writing and music. You are
often very poetic and sometimes dramatic. You
keep to yourself aside from a few close friends
that you can relate to.

What Kind of Shoe Are You?
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Oh, yeah, that’s me. *trips over her own feet* I’d love to have the time to get back into ballet… *sigh*

You are a blue dragon! You are reliable and
steady. You are known for being able to work
for long periods of time without tiring. You
are intelligent and very perceptive, and a good
judge of talent. You are good at finding
humans who would make good dragonriders. You
tend to set reasonable goals, and almost always
succeed at what you set out to do.

What color of Pernese dragon are you?
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The non-initiated who don’t get this one can go read Anne McCaffrey, who is one of the most awesome fantasy writers I know of.

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Are NOT what I see at Furman….it’s been raining all day.

Registration for spring term was last week - it seemed awfully soon, but I realized that I’ll be going home for “spring” break in two and a half weeks!

I had wanted to get into astronomy and writing fiction, but there were only 4 or 5 spots left in each, even though I registered with the juniors. So I didn’t get into either. I did get 16 century English lit. and German lit. from 1750 to the present, both with professors I know and like - the former is my advisor. And then I have HES (health & exercise science, the required “P.E.” course), which I am NOT looking forward to. At all. At least it should balance the other two out - the German and English sound good but hard, and HES is reputed to be fairly easy.

On Monday, I had an interview for the foreign study trip to the UK that I hope to go on. This was me in a room with the three professors who are going this time, one each from English, theater, and history. I’ve heard lots of good things about the people from English and history - my roommate has a class with the latter this term. It was interesting, since I really had no idea what they were going to ask me. Of course they had to pull out “Why do you want to go on this trip?” After that it was lots of do I enjoy class discussions (well, there’s an obvious “right answer” to that one) and where would I want to go sightseeing in my free time (sorry, not up on my British landmarks, that’s why I want to go!), and what was my favorite historical period (I can’t pick one!). All a little odd, but okay. We also talked food allergies for a bit. I had written a long paragraph on the issue on my application - just what it is, how I’ve dealt with it in the past, and our ideas about how I would be able to handle it on this trip. They seemed understanding and basically confirmed what I had been planning.

Naturally, those plans involve a lot of peanut butter. What was funny was when one of the professors commented that I had specifically said tree nuts, so of course I launched into the classic “peanuts aren’t nuts” spiel. I had gotten as far as “well, peanuts are actually related to peas and beans…” when the theater prof chimes in “Because they’re legumes!” “Right!” I say, excited that someone else is aware of this fact. Apparently his family was in the peanut business at one point. It was quite amusing, though!

Have any of you read The Importance of Being Earnest or Mrs. Warren’s Profession? That’s what we’ve been reading in satire the last couple of days, and I really enjoyed both of them - though in very different ways. Earnest is just hilarious, and Mrs. Warren is very thought-provoking (for starters, her “profession” is that of a brothel madame and former prostitute). We’ve had some really good class discussion on these two. Much better than oh, say Jonathan Swift…

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