We Shall Overcome (Perhaps)
So I got my Writing Project back and my professor liked it! He said I have a, "talent for creative dialogue and...characterisations which come close to caricature yet remain oddly convincing,". Oddly convincing? Anneka and I decided that was a slight backhanded compliment but I'll take it! People have said worse. I haven't got my exact mark yet but he gave me a good estimate that means I should graduate with a pretty decent degree. Well, actually, prehaps not so much - the lecturers are on strike. Selfish bastards.
Our Uni even made the BBC Six O'Clock news, again - we're such trouble makers! Lecturers want a 25% pay increase over three years, yeah, good luck with that, chumps. They won't pay nurses, you think they're going to hand over more cash to you? Any teacher in the AUT is not marking work which means essays and exams. Loads of exams have been cancelled already which has just totally screwed everyone up. Why take it out on the students? And I wish they would strike properly - I want to see marches, picket lines, bearded tweedy proffs scaling Buckingham Palace not just them all sat in their offices going, "Oh, I'm so sorry I can't mark your dissertation. Hopefully it will all be resolved soon now excuse me I must go back to my tea and chocolate digestives,". It's been going on since March! I'm waiting for two portfolios back from my other writing lecturer and there is a possibility my exam on Saturday will be scratched. I actually don't mind that so much as it's on Twentieth Century Literature - god, what a whiny bloody century! Apparently, because it's our final year they may just give us an average - that would be so sweet. In fact that would be too good to be true so I reckon my exam will not be cancelled. Screw 'em all.
In other news I've just been to see Mission Impossible 3. It was pretty decent, I even managed to forget how six levels of bat shit crazy Tom Cruise is for a moment. Best line: "Don't interupt me when I'm asking rhetorical questions!"
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Whiny!?! How can you describe a century that provided us with writers such as George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Sylvia Plath as...Oh wait, I just answered my own question. Nevermind!
You can keep your "Twentieth Century Literature" I would not have a clue! Thats so mean having an exam on Saturday. So you say Mission Impossible 3 was okay! I was thinking of seeing it.
LOL! "...six levels of batshit crazy" is perhaps the most appropo description of The Cruise I've heard yet!
Yeah, MI:3 was pretty cool. At one point I thought Joaquin Phoenix was in it but it was just some extra who looked like him. I said it quite loudly when he came on the screen though and my friend choked on her popcorn and then asked, "What film do you think we've come to see?"
Several people have told me that MI:3 is pretty good. Hopefully going to see it this weekend.
Wow, britpop.....school daze, huh? I feel for ya. Thanks, GOD, I am SO over that phase of my life. Altho....if I get this new job I'm angling for, I may have to go back, but at least they have 100% tuition reimbursement, yayyy!
well i saw M:I:3 today as it was pretty good even with Tom Cruise! Not a big fan of his. Hey miffed67 you should go and see it! Thank the lord for Orange Wednesdays!
Yeah, if my local theater (which is really small and has a sticky floor - yuck) isn't COVERED with High School kids this Sat., I'll probably check it out. Sometimes I HATE going in there, tho.....it's creepy. It's like one of those places in NYC where they show porn movies and there's a bunch of old guys sitting around in trench coats, you know? If I see Pee Wee Herman in there, I'm RUNNING OUT!
You have Orange Wednesdays in America, too? Do you have those funny adverts with Patrick Swazye?
How Dare you! How very Dare you! I live in England Well Oxford! What made you think I live America???? Well I have family in the U.S! All is forgiven as you have a fab blog that I can’t stop reading! Well two fab blogs! I love those adverts. Although I think they need to come up with some new ones! Only 6 days until the next Orange Wednesday!
Sorry, I don't know why I assumed you lived in the US! How weird of me. Thanks for forgiving me! x
What is Orange Wednesday? I'm feeling terribly left out of something I'm sure is fabulously British!
Check my Blog. I put a link! Everyone should have Orange Wednesdays!
It's where you get two cinema tickets for the price of one. If you're on the Orange network that is.
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