obviously i'm embellishing, but you'll get my drift
random conversations at uni yesterday:
1) during a tutorial presentation on the 'globalization of gender'*:
la nadine: the globalization of human trafficking is a relatively new phenomenon, correlating with the crackdown on the international drug trade and embedded in the increased commodification of sex and sexual identity.**
random student #1: but illegal trafficking has been going on for like forever. like, what about about that dude from colombia and scarface and stuff?
la nadine: (ignoring ridiculously inane movie reference) yes, i know that, i'm saying that due to the increased national and international policing of drug trafficking, crime syndicates have turned to human trafficking as a new means of profit generation.
women and children all over the world, especially from russia, the former soviet union, and south-east asia are being kidnapped and tricked into sex slavery and smuggled across borders and into brothels.
random student #2: but prostitution has been going on for like forever. like, what about geishas and mary magdalene and stuff?
la nadine: (ignoring blatant stupidity of both references) yes, i know that, but the commodification of humans for the purposes of prostitution and pornography on a global scale has not been going on "for like forever".
random student #3: but pornography has been going on for like forever. like, what about the marquis de sade and hugh hefner and stuff?
la nadine: don't you people listen? are you all mental? on drugs? deaf?
I'M TALKING ABOUT GLOBALIZATION FOR FUCKS SAKE!
*seethes*
2) during a meeting with the faculty heads to discuss my "special circumstances":
la nadine: i apologize that this situation has dragged on for so long, and i'm doing my best to get through all the work, but what's been happening in my life these past few years is completely out of my control.
random staff member #1: we understand that, and we're sorry about your parents, but we need you to try and finish this course as soon as possible.
la nadine: as i said, i'm trying, but things have worsened once again, and i may have to pull out of uni at any time with no notice.
random staff member #2: la nadine*** we've been patient with you these past few years, but its just dragging on too long, and we need you to try and finish this course as soon as possible.
la nadine: i assure you that i am trying to finish the course as soon as possible. you want me to fucking pinky swear on it?
random staff member #3: we just need you to try and finish the course as soon as possible.
la nadine: don't you people listen? are you all mental? on drugs? deaf?
I AM TRYING FOR FUCKS SAKE!
*seethes*
*drowns sorrows in vodka*
*blogs through the pain*
*yes, i am a left-wing, humanities, glorified arts student wanker. cope.
**i am highly aware of how annoying i sound. double cope.
***okay so she didn't really say 'la nadine', but it would've be way cool if she had.
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Hee.
Random conversation from one of my tutes last year.
Dr Evil: Does the success of the West rely upon the economic appropriation of the surplus of the lesser developed countries? Is this exploitation? How?
Student: Well, it's not exploitation because we're giving them jobs they otherwise wouldn't have had.
Maybe I'm getting old but I'm really beginning to see the sense behind the adage:
Children should be seen and not heard.
your supervisors and fellow student types may require some modification.
*aims the ray gun and sets it to "disintegrate"*
unsw?
uts.
don't get me wrong, i love the place. i just had a rotting cunt of a day.
my darling, UTS is nothing is not a big, fat, grease-dropping ball of suck. oneday, you will graduate, with honors and accept some far-away glamorous PHD scholarship and UTS will be sorry it tried so hard to fuck up your shit. here's to eventually leaving UTS, big ball of suck!
yes, those days at unsw also.. x
can i be the dweeb here and stick up for UTS? uts has let me defer a total of three times and change my mind twice (with one days warning) - UTS is conveniently located 20 minutes walk from my house, rather than the (unnecessarily arduous) 30 minutes to Sydney Uni (which i also go to) - it is right near Chinatown, happy purveyor of mega Laksa bowls and homemade dumplings - UTS is ridicolously uncool and architecturally awkward, so i feel as if i fit in - and finally - all my classes are full of raging genii (including "big ball of suck" elmos ninos) who inspire me to do better and be at the library at 9am on a tuesday morning (thats right now).
ok, ill go "study" now.
as i said before, dear pimply one, i have nothing against uts, and in fact feel quite tingly about it in my special place. and the people in that particular tutorial are usually ultra smart and politically aware. but like i said, bad day. BAD DAY!!!
bad days like that one of yours, have been had at other 'places of higher learning', by other people.
Degree in Business Management, .
on marketing sporting footwear, I said 'the purchaser may receive a personality filip from ownership, like when Homer bought Assassins and was empowered?'
Marketing Unit, Lecturer said Who is Homer Simpson?
Me: ??? Time magazine TV show of the century? 13 years? 300 million in merchandising?
M.U.L said: never heard of it.
Third Year fellow Student said: nobody watches that anymore anyway.
Reader, I could not go back to that class. I quit the course.
You go to UTS? I go to UTS!
Email me when you need a hug and I will meet you and hug you.
And maybe fondle you.
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