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April 14, 2005

School's been blown to pieces

Last night I attended my last undergraduate class ever (except for the ones that I will one day be teaching). I also handed in one of the most embarrassingly bad papers I have ever written; I thought it was going along pretty well and then when I printed it out to proofread it I realized that what I had thought was an okay paper was actually a whole bunch of pretentious garbage, and I didn't have time to change enough to make it not be garbage anymore, goddamn it. Since it was my last undergrad paper ever, I'm just trying to take a deep breath and let go of the fact that it sucked out loud. Next week I will write two exams and then sit back and wait to be handed my degree, and then I can get on with my life. And maybe look for some kind of new job, so I don't have to carry on sucking the marrow out of living off Peter for the rest of the summer.

Here's a little bit of serendipity: as I walked to the front door to check the mail today, I was thinking about how unpleasant it will be when I have to ask Peter to pay this semester's school fees for me so that I can graduate (because I have no money). And guess what I found in the mailbox? Notification from the school that I've received a small bursary that's enough to cover those fees. There will even be a little left over to pay the six dollars I owe the National Student Loans Service. Whew!

Okay, as promised, I now present my final interview. Crumpet, I'm sorry it took so long; I blame it on my lack of organizational skills. I only checked the comments on the one post for interview requests, and yours was on the following post. So, better late than never, here are your questions:
1. What exactly is the difference between a crumpet and an English muffin? The way you described a crumpet on your website sounds just like what we call English muffins here in Canada.
2. The obligatory question for people living in countries I can't get to by car: when I come to visit you (because you just know that's gonna happen soon when I can't even come up with a six freaking dollar interest payment for the government), what fun places in your neighbourhood will you take me to?
3. When I was in high school we had a teacher come from New Zealand on exchange. One of her kids told me that in New Zealand everyone hates Australians. Is there some kind of rivalry between the two of you? Do you hate people from New Zealand, or do you think it's like Canada and the US, where we engage in anti-Americanism in order to protect our national identity because there's so many more of them than there are of us, but then we still drive across the border and hang out with them all the time?
4. Tell me about your knitting and embroidery habits. Which have you been doing longer, what were your first projects and your biggest failures?
5. There's been a lot of talk about the Pittsburgh Salad here at jodi's weblog (so much so that my site comes up second on a Google search for "Pittsburgh Salad", scary, eh?), and of course my country has its own gross french fry-based snack. Is there any sort of disgusting regional way of eating french fries where you live? Or is that just a north american thing?

Posted by jodi at April 14, 2005 02:39 PM | categories:  school

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