10 Years After

Fool Get A Clue

Before my Intro to linguistics class I had to listen to the girl I detest from my summer Spanish class. She's just so damn snotty. She was droning on about censored books. Apparently that is some hobbie of hers. She said she collects lists of banned books. When another student mentioned a few books, including Moby Dick, this girl questioned the other student's source. When this other student mentioned there was a display in the library the girl said, "They're wrong." And then went on to say how she gets her sources from the ALA.

She also commented on how dumb another student was for commenting that they would never use a banned book when they became a teacher. She really ridiculed this other student who wasn't there.

I bit my tongue and didn't interject anything. I just waited for the classroom to open up so I could get the hell away from this walking idiot zombie (or, as Gary would say, fucktard). It seemed rather clear from hearing her talk that the student she ridiculed had meant not just a book banned by anyone but, rather, books banned by her school district. I'm not a fan of banned books, but that sounds like a sound policy. What I found interesting was that a few of the books she read she commented "that's understandable", "we all know why that one's banned," or, even, "that makes sense." A few seemed puzzling - "Where's Waldo" and "James and the Giant Peach."

Once in the classroom she tried to make a joke. I think she confused Ellison's and Well's "The Invisible Man." Her joke was something along the lines of, "how can the invisible man be offensive since nobody can see him." Her defender of choice against censorship was Judy Blume. She commented that she had audio recordings of Judy Blume protesting against censorship. I don't know. I don't take Judy Blume to be a serious intellectual. Maybe it's from all the elementary school books by her.

Class itself was great. We went over the last few pages in the chapter. We did some interesting morophonology analysis. Wednesday we are doing a review for the midterm test Friday. I'm a bit nervous about the test. I'll have to reread the chapters (1-4) the test covers over again before class Wedness so that I'll be able to ask any questions that I need answers to before the test. More than anything, I'm curious about the format of the test. I think I'd rather do some analysis than just answering essay questions. Too bad this won't be a take home test!