Someone please kill me...

[bluflamingo]

Before boredom does. Seriously, is there anything worse than having to write a 'reflexive report' on a project you hated doing in the first place, for a tutor who you're pretty sure thinks you're stupid and also wrong, and doesn't even know your name after 10 weeks.

Because if there is, I'd really like to hear it, since this is *destroying my will to live*. I'd rather be writing replicator coding with the Wraith... Well, possibly not, since I guess it might eat me if I got it wrong, which I probably would, since I know nothing about coding. But the point is similar, if currently somewhat lost.

I'm glad that class is over anyway - I never felt like it was a safe space where I could disagree with people, and it always seemed like when I made a differing point from the consensus, people took it deeply personally, and with not much respect for people's right to disagree. I'm so glad that tutor's not taking my gender module next semester, which I thought she might be, though I suspect quite a few of the people from that class will be.

See, this is the problem with having a minority opinion - you can never just give it and have people nod along, you always have to explain, usually at great length, what you mean, and then defend it against a bunch of people who basically think you're wrong because you're not giving a majority view. And sometimes it just gets so tiring - like getting asked the same questions every time someone realises I'm gay. I could so live without another ten weeks of it next semester, especially with a group of people who seem to think my disgreeing with them says something terrible about my moral character.

On the positive side, however:
Yuletide fic is done and submitted!
SGA Santa fic is done and submitted!
Under Mistletoe fic is within 5000 words (I hope) of being done, although it's currently hovering at around 20,000 words, unless my ability to add up has deserted me (not impossible) since I'm handwriting it. Which may turn out to be a mistake when I have to type it up.
SG1 Jubilee fic... has a plot. Well, a plot outline. All right, it has a beginning and an end and a vague idea of what goes in between. That's a good start though, right?

Also gatecreation is looking for more people to sign up for their minor character spring fest. Fics aren't due till the end of March, which is more than three months away... even fics that mysteriously spiral to 20,000 words can be written before then.

No offers of salvation from the accursed report then? Oh well, worth a try.

Comments

Re: Killing your tutor...

[army-rat.livejournal.com]

Good Morning. I still have a cold but I feel MUCH better today.

I’m not completely positive but I am pretty sure it was Heinlein who made a remark about how the children of a generation are more likely to accept the tenets of their grandparents rather than their parents. While I can see how those comments may have applied to children of his generation and older I’m not sure how valid that statement is today. But in a number of things that you have said about your generation I’m not sure that it is completely invalid either.

I am considered a tail-end Baby Boomer. In one way or another I socialize with a fairly large number of people who range from their late twenties to mid-thirties. I find that for the most part the people of that age range who were educated at universities tend to be far more conservative and likely to vote Republican than those either have no higher education or those who were educated at other state and federal institutions. (for that last euphemism read ‘prison’)

I find this to be an interesting change from my own generation where the reverse seems to be true. People of my age who are college educated seem to be more liberal than others of my age who tend to inhabit the ‘lower income ranges’.

God how I both love and hate political correctness. I can be incredibly blunt sometimes but political correctness allows a level of sarcasm that would be unavailable otherwise!

I’ve walked both sides of that income line, and am currently straddling it in attempt to climb back up again. Our mutual friend Dossier is occasionally distressed by some of the people that I hang out with. She seems to feel that if I hang out with losers I will become a loser. But I still maintain contact with some of the people I hung around with when I was on the upper side of the income line as well.

I’ve just read back and I’m not sure exactly where this is headed myself except to say that I DO feel qualified to speak for my generation, even though in a lot of ways it’s strictly by observation. I can feel where you are coming from when you way that your peers ‘don’t get you’. I’ve been there. I’m STILL there. (Remind me to send you my rant on why gay marriage should be legalized, with caveats about when and where it should be recognized by the Episcopal Church. It’s an argument that I took to Diocesan Council in East Texas 4 years ago and had people on BOTH sides of the argument screaming for my head.)

I think you are probably in a good position to speak for your generation, even though that generation may not speak for you. You seem to have pretty good observational skills that include ears as well as eyes. Before you decide that you may be on a different set of scales than others of your age group, please take a look at class structure. America is anything BUT a classless society, but economics are not the only way that class is divided or decided. Take a closer look at how some of your own thoughts and values are different from your peers and compare those across differences that are other than economic and maybe you’ll have a better idea of where your scales connect with theirs instead of just seeing the differences.

You come across on LJ as a very nice person. I would dislike it for you to be sad!

OH YEAH! Remind me to comment on your first paragraph again! I hate it when work interferes with the thought processes!

Re: Killing your tutor...

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I think you are probably in a good position to speak for your generation, even though that generation may not speak for you.

I really like that as an explanation - it seems like something that sociologists would embrace, actually... though maybe not so much nowadays, come to think of it.

You come across on LJ as a very nice person. I would dislike it for you to be sad!

Aw, thank you. So do you.