I write good:
Why does a political science degree do such a poor job of preparing you to write?
I know what you’re thinking, what did you learn in political science if not writing. Well, what I learned was simply this: Long sentence and big words equal A. Short sentences and easily deciphered words equal C. I wanted the A so I learned to write with highly complicated (read grammatically WRONG) sentences and highly pretentious words. Law school is about communicating what you must in as few words as possible and with words that are clear and easy to understand. This has been a struggle for me. And most of you who know me, now that I’m not passive about anything in my life. Why do I insist on writing so passively. “Be” verbs why are you so tempting?!
Why is my lawyering class the only one to have class this week, and the week after Thanksgiving? Why must she send us an assignment during our
1) Because she hates us.
2) Because she wants us to know that she is the true meaning of every holiday.
3) Of course she does, see number 1.
4)
I was a star today in property. The girl who sits next to me in property was gone. No one sits on the other side of me. I sit in the front row. I was stranded on an island today, where the professor looks for anything that sets you out from the crowd. Be it a coffee cup, a cub’s sweatshirt or just movement of any kind. I knew that he was going to ride me today so I bit the bullet and volunteered in a class whose mantra is “no good deed goes unpunished”. And I rocked. After my wonderful answer the professor said “I LOVE your answer”. So answer me this… why did he blow me off 2 hours later when I said hi to him in the cafeteria? That hurt.
Sated bliss:
Turkey Day is coming and His and I are excited. We hand in our dreaded memo on Tuesday, then we’re going to party like its 1999. You know, old school with a lot of booze. Please make no attempt to contact us early on Wednesday. We will then be spending all of Wednesday outlining and preparing for finals. Thursday we will be doing the same, except for in the morning when we make pies. Friday we will be celebrating Thanksgiving by cooking the 20lb bird His picked up for us. We’ll be making rolls, mashed potatoes, green beans of some sort to be determined, cranberry compote, pumpkin and pecan pie and probably a nice brandy whip cream. Then we will be watching the HUSKERS lay the smack down on the Buffaloes! After this we will slip into our tryptophan induced slumber. Then its back to outlining and studying and probably some horrific assignment from my lawyering prof.
So that’s what we have in store. Drop us a line sometime and let us know what’s going on in the outside world. PS I refuse to even reread this post, so um, yeah I’m pretty sure it stinks.
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