We are all meat...

[katekat]

Check out this totally fabulous almost-twilight-zoneish short film at utube.  Don't worry, no scary ucky stuff, it's just a conversation, but it's really cool.

And in a turn for the worst? better?  Last night I managed to finish defining all of the ID's for my American History exam - thank god.  It's the last kind of work I want to do on a Friday night, but at least that half of the process is over.  Now all I have to do is write the essay outlines, and memorize what I wrote last night, and I'll be ready for the final.

And can I just say, although I know bunches of people believe otherwise, I HATE American History.  I HATE it!!  I truly don't even have a morbid interest in what happened in the Civil War.  I know all the arguments that one needs to know one's history, and unfortunately, I also know that gray_ghost pulls historical shit out on me all the time, and now I have a better chance of understanding what he tells me because of this damn class, but still.  I would've been a happy camper never taking an American History class again. EVER.  I would've listened to my NPR and lived in relative confusion about our country's past (left behind by a public school education that wasn't terribly specific about these kinds of things) and just gone on with my life.

Now, sadly, I can form an opinion on the Jackson Presidency.  UGH.

Comments

[glimmergirl.livejournal.com]

*snugs*

I avoided Am.Hist. all through college and have only taken three Am. Lit. courses since then, too. (Though? Would totally take ANY Am.Lit. offered by my Giles-y prof. Dude. I'd listen to him talk about the post-modern, capitalist propaganda put forward by cereal boxes. His stuff is THAT GOOD.)

Anyway. Yes. Am.Hist. is so not my thing either, unless it's in the greater context of the 17th/18th c. stuff happening around the lit. I like. I have a harder time fitting it into Classics..

Also! And more importantly, really, you journal! It is different! And very pretty, I might add.

[katekat]

I avoided it my first time through college too - but stupid UT has this horrible requirement that one HAS to take American History courses and American Government courses - and they don't have cross-discipline stuff like an american lit course that counts. Otherwise I'd TOTALLY have done that. I envy you your Gilesy professor! He sounds like so much fun.

OH! thank you so much for the journal admiration! I went and found a new custom style and learned far too much about CSS (even though I still don't know anything, really) but am very pleased with the results.

*hugs*

[mishloran.livejournal.com]

I know I am not living in Americaland but I know nothing at all whatsoever about US History. Also I know very little indeed about UK history. In primary school I remember we did WWII, but that was basically "the Blitz happened. It was bad. Then the Allies won." And... oh, I did the Industrial and Agricultural Revolution for GCSE history. But other than that, I know nothing!

...wait. I know a little about the Black Civil Rights Movement in America. Martin Luther King Jr. and all that. I vaguely recall doing that in secondary school, pre-GCSEs.

Uhm. Hi. All that information you did not need to know.

But!

I CAN SEE MY WRITING! *types away!!!!!*

[katekat]

Well, in my opinion, you haven't really missed anything! Seriously. Those are the highlights. I much prefer to know what's going on now instead of what happened then... and although i know it's all tied together, i just can't muster the interest, you know?

And HI! So, the being able to see your writing is a good thing, yes? I changed the layout all around...

[mishloran.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I do so enjoy seeing what I am typing. It helps me to go back and delete the worsd spe3lt lisdke this! :) *sniggers at own almost-intellectualist-but-far-too-obvious typing joke*

Fair enough. You are like me. British History is rather boring, to me, unless it is now-history, ie. politics etcetera. The only drawback to this being my degree is in ANCIENT history, so I find myself in the peculiar position of being a historian, yet not entirely enjoying the study of history.

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

World (and as an American, by "world", I mean Mediterranean and European) history is awesome and one of my most favoritest things to read about but American history is the most dreadfully boring stuff ever. The only thing worse than general American history was the class on Tennessee history we had to take in seventh grade. Guh.

[katekat]

Yeah, world history would be MUCH more interesting. Although, in all honesty, I am not much of a fan of history ... which is why I like literature in the first place. Give me the fictional written word over a historical account *anyday*.

That being said, Tennessee history sounds like its own kind of hell. *hugs you retroactively*

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

Nah. Non-fiction is awesome in its own rights. When I sold off all my Trek fiction, almost everything I bought with my credit was historical or scientific non-fiction.