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tenlittlebullets) wrote2009-02-22 11:49 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2009-02-22 11:49 am
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I'd forgotten how much WTF there was in this version...
Apparently my life is just not interesting enough to write about anymore.
Um. I did get together with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
elyse24601 and a friend who lives in my house on Friday. We watched the last three-quarters or so of the incredibly bizarre 2000 Les Mis miniseries--the one where EVERYONE BUT COSETTE is a massive sketchball. Valjean? Pervs on Cosette; nuff said. Javert? Got his PhD in lurking from Conspicuous University; also, John Malkovitch wtf; also, black leather trenchcoat. Thénardiers? Were sketchy enough in canon, but now there's random gross PDA that may or may not involve their kids. The Mother Superior of the convent? Grim and creepy and obviously chain-smokes if her voice is any indication. Eponine? Skeevy and goth and tells Marius she'll show him Cosette's house if he'll sleep with her. Marius? Fugly; also, AGREES to skeevy Eponine's proposition. Fauchelevent? Has that "I know your name is Jean Valjean because I listen to you talk in your sleep" moment. Enjolras? ...okay, he's cute and ambiguously slashy, but he does shoot Fauchelevent in a crowning moment of WTF.
Actually, there were so many crowning moments of WTF that it's not even worth it to enumerate them.
Also, it is snowing like crazy and I have sixty pages of The Red and the Black to read and a bunch of Latin subjunctive forms to memorize by tomorrow. Woe. And I spent breakfast talking with my friends who are biochem and physics majors, which made me wonder why the fuck I never got to take a real hard science class except biology in 10th grade, which in turn made me wonder why the fuck I got shunted into the remedial dumb-kid science classes after I left middle school. The official excuse was that I "clearly wasn't very good at math," AKA I was a straight-A student who got a C in algebra under an incompetent teacher. But I have to wonder whether those two X chromosomes had anything to do with the assumption that I shouldn't bother my pretty little head with AP Chemistry and all the scary math it entailed.
At any rate, I really regret never having taken a "real" chemistry or physics course. (And no, the "Matter and Energy" bullshit I got stuck with in high school does not count; it was where they put all the kids they thought were too dumb to take the real thing, so we could learn the basic concepts and move on with our lives.) It's something I cannot fit into my schedule at all at Smith, but I wish I could; maybe after I graduate I'll take community-college courses or something.
Um. I did get together with
elyse24601 and a friend who lives in my house on Friday. We watched the last three-quarters or so of the incredibly bizarre 2000 Les Mis miniseries--the one where EVERYONE BUT COSETTE is a massive sketchball. Valjean? Pervs on Cosette; nuff said. Javert? Got his PhD in lurking from Conspicuous University; also, John Malkovitch wtf; also, black leather trenchcoat. Thénardiers? Were sketchy enough in canon, but now there's random gross PDA that may or may not involve their kids. The Mother Superior of the convent? Grim and creepy and obviously chain-smokes if her voice is any indication. Eponine? Skeevy and goth and tells Marius she'll show him Cosette's house if he'll sleep with her. Marius? Fugly; also, AGREES to skeevy Eponine's proposition. Fauchelevent? Has that "I know your name is Jean Valjean because I listen to you talk in your sleep" moment. Enjolras? ...okay, he's cute and ambiguously slashy, but he does shoot Fauchelevent in a crowning moment of WTF.Actually, there were so many crowning moments of WTF that it's not even worth it to enumerate them.
Also, it is snowing like crazy and I have sixty pages of The Red and the Black to read and a bunch of Latin subjunctive forms to memorize by tomorrow. Woe. And I spent breakfast talking with my friends who are biochem and physics majors, which made me wonder why the fuck I never got to take a real hard science class except biology in 10th grade, which in turn made me wonder why the fuck I got shunted into the remedial dumb-kid science classes after I left middle school. The official excuse was that I "clearly wasn't very good at math," AKA I was a straight-A student who got a C in algebra under an incompetent teacher. But I have to wonder whether those two X chromosomes had anything to do with the assumption that I shouldn't bother my pretty little head with AP Chemistry and all the scary math it entailed.
At any rate, I really regret never having taken a "real" chemistry or physics course. (And no, the "Matter and Energy" bullshit I got stuck with in high school does not count; it was where they put all the kids they thought were too dumb to take the real thing, so we could learn the basic concepts and move on with our lives.) It's something I cannot fit into my schedule at all at Smith, but I wish I could; maybe after I graduate I'll take community-college courses or something.