So, as I wait to go to the Phi Mu Alpha meeting, I ponder why meteorologists feel the need to make a huge deal out of every weather event in existence. In the beginning of winter "OMG WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, LIKE, 30000000000 INCHES OF SNOW! THE WORLD'S GONNA END!!!!"
...and that's when we end up having an inch of snow.
But, if tomorrow does turn out to be as bad as they say it will be, it seems like it might be a pretty good idea to not have school (here's hoping...).
Anyways, enough about the awful weather. I had a pretty good day today. Stayed inside (mostly), I went to class, went to quartet, went to practice, you know, all that good stuff. The food in Piazza was awful today. I'm not sure if they're running out of ideas/ingredients/plausible meal choices...but it was just not pleasant. I mean, come on, tonight they had a decent dinner set. Awesome. At lunch? They had...six different directions of junk. It wasn't pretty. Just saying.
Gender Studies was interesting today. We talked about six different ways that women are assimilated into masculine words! And there was a rather amusing argument where one girl decided that she should announce that the 'n' word apparently was defined as a 'stupid person' in the dictionary, and if we simply stated that we were using the dictionary definition, it would be okay for people to use it in conversations. Yeah...that didn't go so well. A guy sitting a few rows ahead of her started arguing with her, and made a very valid point: all words have history, and all words have power. The power and history of that particular word is too strong for one to even THINK about using it in a conversation. I mean, come on, really? That's not a good word period.
Anyways, it was rather interesting to think about how women are degraded through the use of words like "ladies" or "girls", because in a sense, they are demeaning the women by purposing them as inferior to men. If you call a fully grown man a boy, you will probably get punched in the face. It's an insult. But people assume that it is correct to call women that. Gender-stereotyping in language is a terrible thing!
Quartet practice was interesting, as we spent about the first ten minutes of rehearsal waiting for the cellist to show up. I plunked out some Spring Awakening (although I can only play about 10 bars of Whispering (before I epic fail at playing piano). I also did some practicing with the stuff Tori talked about yesterday. Yay!
Anyways, I also got to spend a lovely two hours not having to do anything before Quartet. It was fabulous. I got to like, breath. You know, that necessary life thing? Yeah.
UPs and DOWNs time!!!!
UPs
- I got to listen to copious amounts of Spring Awakening today.
- Phi Mu Alpha meeting tonight!
- Good piano practicing today.
DOWNs
- I didn't get to see my Madeline today. :(
- It's freaking cold as hell outside.
- None of my classes were canceled today.
- Food in Piazza sucked.
So, lesson of the day? Be careful of the words you use. They are potent, and even if you don't think they are particularly powerful, it doesn't mean that you should use them.
Off to my meeting. S'later all!
...and that's when we end up having an inch of snow.
But, if tomorrow does turn out to be as bad as they say it will be, it seems like it might be a pretty good idea to not have school (here's hoping...).
Anyways, enough about the awful weather. I had a pretty good day today. Stayed inside (mostly), I went to class, went to quartet, went to practice, you know, all that good stuff. The food in Piazza was awful today. I'm not sure if they're running out of ideas/ingredients/plausible meal choices...but it was just not pleasant. I mean, come on, tonight they had a decent dinner set. Awesome. At lunch? They had...six different directions of junk. It wasn't pretty. Just saying.
Gender Studies was interesting today. We talked about six different ways that women are assimilated into masculine words! And there was a rather amusing argument where one girl decided that she should announce that the 'n' word apparently was defined as a 'stupid person' in the dictionary, and if we simply stated that we were using the dictionary definition, it would be okay for people to use it in conversations. Yeah...that didn't go so well. A guy sitting a few rows ahead of her started arguing with her, and made a very valid point: all words have history, and all words have power. The power and history of that particular word is too strong for one to even THINK about using it in a conversation. I mean, come on, really? That's not a good word period.
Anyways, it was rather interesting to think about how women are degraded through the use of words like "ladies" or "girls", because in a sense, they are demeaning the women by purposing them as inferior to men. If you call a fully grown man a boy, you will probably get punched in the face. It's an insult. But people assume that it is correct to call women that. Gender-stereotyping in language is a terrible thing!
Quartet practice was interesting, as we spent about the first ten minutes of rehearsal waiting for the cellist to show up. I plunked out some Spring Awakening (although I can only play about 10 bars of Whispering (before I epic fail at playing piano). I also did some practicing with the stuff Tori talked about yesterday. Yay!
Anyways, I also got to spend a lovely two hours not having to do anything before Quartet. It was fabulous. I got to like, breath. You know, that necessary life thing? Yeah.
UPs and DOWNs time!!!!
UPs
- I got to listen to copious amounts of Spring Awakening today.
- Phi Mu Alpha meeting tonight!
- Good piano practicing today.
DOWNs
- I didn't get to see my Madeline today. :(
- It's freaking cold as hell outside.
- None of my classes were canceled today.
- Food in Piazza sucked.
So, lesson of the day? Be careful of the words you use. They are potent, and even if you don't think they are particularly powerful, it doesn't mean that you should use them.
Off to my meeting. S'later all!
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