The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[jrfox92]

Card got declined in the grocery checkout today.

Murder me.

Have had that happen twice in the last two weeks now.
The worst part is I'm always short by just a few cents.

[UglyCasanova]

Tomorrow morning. 24 literary works. One will be chosen for me. I get 2 minutes to write some notes, then I will have to talk about said work for 20-30 minutes in front of three professors, then answer questions.

Fucking hell. I don't like talking to people, let alone people I don't know and that are super brainy and there to judge me. FUCK.

[Invisible Man]

Card got declined in the grocery checkout today.

Murder me.

Haha I'm still so gun shy about going to the store...this has happened to me at least a dozen times. Financial management is not my forte.

[neonblack]

Can't wait till I can order all my groceries from Amazon and never leave the house

[jrfox92]

Can't wait till I can order all my groceries from Amazon and never leave the house

This has been my #1 goal in life.

[aedes]

The "Freedom Balloon Fest" is coming to my town this weekend. 80,000 people celebrating freedom and balloons. Not looking forward to that.

[Invisible Man]

Tomorrow morning. 24 literary works. One will be chosen for me. I get 2 minutes to write some notes, then I will have to talk about said work for 20-30 minutes in front of three professors, then answer questions.

Fucking hell. I don't like talking to people, let alone people I don't know and that are super brainy and there to judge me. FUCK.

Feel your pain, duder. That's a long time to talk about one text...seems more reasonable to ask you about three or four, and give you 5-10 minutes to talk about each.

My comp exam was two hours, and there were about 120-130 texts on the table (but I'd read them over the course of the year prior). Pretty stressful...glad that stuff is over.

Good luck!

[UglyCasanova]

Tomorrow morning. 24 literary works. One will be chosen for me. I get 2 minutes to write some notes, then I will have to talk about said work for 20-30 minutes in front of three professors, then answer questions.

Fucking hell. I don't like talking to people, let alone people I don't know and that are super brainy and there to judge me. FUCK.

Feel your pain, duder. That's a long time to talk about one text...seems more reasonable to ask you about three or four, and give you 5-10 minutes to talk about each.

My comp exam was two hours, and there were about 120-130 texts on the table (but I'd read them over the course of the year prior). Pretty stressful...glad that stuff is over.

Good luck!

I envy the shit out of you for being done with that.

Just got an email stating that our faculty MIGHT go on strike tomorrow morning (right before my exam), so I don't even know if I'm having my exam or not. It might be postponed for weeks, even months. As much as the idea of that particular exam scares the shit out of me, I'd love to have it over and done with. I've been reading for months for this. I don't want to have to keep it fresh in my mind for much longer. BLARGH

[Invisible Man]

I hope they go on strike immediately after your exam.

They're probably rooting for you (unless they're like two assholes on my thesis committee). I've been on both sides of these things, and I hope it helps to know that they probably want to get it over with, too. Make it easy for them, you know? Not trying to diminish what you're doing, but to say that this is a monolithic thing in your head. Remember that you're talking about books in front of a handful of fucking book nerds like you. Not life or death...stay loose, my friend, and try to enjoy it for what it is--likely one of the last times you'll have a captive audience to listen to you rant about arcane literary bullshit with real interest.

What texts are up for grabs?

[Iommic Pope]

Please teach me to literature, IM.

[UglyCasanova]

I hope they go on strike immediately after your exam.

They're probably rooting for you (unless they're like two assholes on my thesis committee). I've been on both sides of these things, and I hope it helps to know that they probably want to get it over with, too. Make it easy for them, you know? Not trying to diminish what you're doing, but to say that this is a monolithic thing in your head. Remember that you're talking about books in front of a handful of fucking book nerds like you. Not life or death...stay loose, my friend, and try to enjoy it for what it is--likely one of the last times you'll have a captive audience to listen to you rant about arcane literary bullshit with real interest.

What texts are up for grabs?

Thanks, man. Really! I needed that!

We've got
Wordsworth (The Prelude + various poems from LB)
Rousseau (Reveries of a Solitary Walker and Confessions)
Kafka (Amerika)
Teju Cole (Open City)
Tomas Espedal (Walk; or how to live a wild and poetic life)
Baudelaire (various texts and poems)
Benjamin (The Writer of Modern Life and Childhood in Berlin)
Some other norwegian texts
A shitload of theory on literature and walking

I'm forgetting some stuff, haha. Not good!

[chuckjaywalk]

I hope they go on strike immediately after your exam.

They're probably rooting for you (unless they're like two assholes on my thesis committee). I've been on both sides of these things, and I hope it helps to know that they probably want to get it over with, too. Make it easy for them, you know? Not trying to diminish what you're doing, but to say that this is a monolithic thing in your head. Remember that you're talking about books in front of a handful of fucking book nerds like you. Not life or death...stay loose, my friend, and try to enjoy it for what it is--likely one of the last times you'll have a captive audience to listen to you rant about arcane literary bullshit with real interest.

What texts are up for grabs?

Thanks, man. Really! I needed that!

We've got
Wordsworth (The Prelude + various poems from LB)
Rousseau (Reveries of a Solitary Walker and Confessions)
Kafka (Amerika)
Teju Cole (Open City)
Tomas Espedal (Walk; or how to live a wild and poetic life)
Baudelaire (various texts and poems)
Benjamin (The Writer of Modern Life and Childhood in Berlin)
Some other norwegian texts
A shitload of theory on literature and walking

I'm forgetting some stuff, haha. Not good!

Well, I know one guy who suddenly wants to reread Kafka and Baudelaire again.

[UglyCasanova]

Haha, do it! Classics!

(The following should be in the happiness thread)

I nailed it. Got a B. I had a slow start but got fired up and going and was told that I'm an excellent close reader who is good at drawing parallels. Stoked!

Ended up talking about
Sophie Callé - Double Game (my main text)
Roger Gilbert - A walk is a poem, a poem is a walk
Kafka - The sudden walk
Baudelaire - The masses + a poem I don't know the english or French title of
Susan Buck-Morss - The flaneur, the sandwichman and the whore: the politics of loitering
Woolf - Street haunting
Benjamin - The Writer of Modern Life

Youp. I drew a lot of parallels

[Iommic Pope]

Nice!
Good work dude.
I haven't read Baudelaire in fucking ages.
Also "the politics of loitering" is pretty much the most appealing grab line ever. Gotta check that out.

[UglyCasanova]

Haha, yeah, it's a great title. It's a good read, but very Marxist (she's big on Walter Benjamin) and feminist. Definitely interesting though

Baudelaire is my kind of duder.

And thanks! I'll just have a short paper to write on Robert Creeley, and then my bachelor degree is over and done with. I think I'll take a year off before I start on my masters. I want to read for pure pleasure again.