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Take me to the slaughterhouse
Feb. 12th, 2007 11:59 pm
Currently at UW: -15.3. High today: -4.4. UW weather page notes that the daily high hasn't been above normal since January 27. One of those Colorado lows coming for tomorrow, that may or may not actually make it. If it does, it'll be the first major storm system of the winter.
You know what's funny? When the senate of your university declares an "amnesty" for the day you're having a mid-term in your class, so that students can go protest tuition fees. That's funny stuff.
One thing I seem to have discovered in the last couple of weeks about being the guy in charge, as opposed to being the "assistant": students are way less inclined to give you shit, and way more inclined to make appreciative gestures. I guess it shouldn't be surprising--people do, I guess, relate to each other mostly as roles. It's nice (so far, anyway; we're still feeling our way along here), insofar as it's seeming like I am actually going to be getting decent customer-satisfaction ratings, but it's a bit disturbing. Especially given that, next year, I'm as likely as anything to end up being a TA again.
Yesterday or so I read my second article saying that the fact everyone likes Obama better than HRC goes to show that it's even harder to be a woman in American politics than it is to be a black man. The first such piece I read, a couple of weeks ago in the Star, actually said that Obama had zoomed to the top of the polls--what polls those might have been, I have no idea. This is the particularly annoying aspect of HRC-vs.-Obama: whoever loses wins the Most Oppressed Award. Or, at least, whoever can be made out to be the most disfavoured can be awarded the Most Oppressed Award. (Except, of course, that, as we now know, Obama is not actually black. So, that's a relief. And he smokes, which, and not the fact that he's not not black, is why he's going to lose.) It has struck me, recently, that HRC and Giuliani will inevitably be the nominees because (and, of course, it's easy to come up with reasons why it's inevitable that whatever's going to happen is going to happen) the Republicans will nominate Giuliani to try to break into the northeast, and the Democrats will nominate HRC to at least try to keep Giuliani from taking New York.
You know what's funny? When the senate of your university declares an "amnesty" for the day you're having a mid-term in your class, so that students can go protest tuition fees. That's funny stuff.
One thing I seem to have discovered in the last couple of weeks about being the guy in charge, as opposed to being the "assistant": students are way less inclined to give you shit, and way more inclined to make appreciative gestures. I guess it shouldn't be surprising--people do, I guess, relate to each other mostly as roles. It's nice (so far, anyway; we're still feeling our way along here), insofar as it's seeming like I am actually going to be getting decent customer-satisfaction ratings, but it's a bit disturbing. Especially given that, next year, I'm as likely as anything to end up being a TA again.
Yesterday or so I read my second article saying that the fact everyone likes Obama better than HRC goes to show that it's even harder to be a woman in American politics than it is to be a black man. The first such piece I read, a couple of weeks ago in the Star, actually said that Obama had zoomed to the top of the polls--what polls those might have been, I have no idea. This is the particularly annoying aspect of HRC-vs.-Obama: whoever loses wins the Most Oppressed Award. Or, at least, whoever can be made out to be the most disfavoured can be awarded the Most Oppressed Award. (Except, of course, that, as we now know, Obama is not actually black. So, that's a relief. And he smokes, which, and not the fact that he's not not black, is why he's going to lose.) It has struck me, recently, that HRC and Giuliani will inevitably be the nominees because (and, of course, it's easy to come up with reasons why it's inevitable that whatever's going to happen is going to happen) the Republicans will nominate Giuliani to try to break into the northeast, and the Democrats will nominate HRC to at least try to keep Giuliani from taking New York.
