Tuesday, March 18, 2008

I had work today & then I got pissed off at my finals review session

Work today. First day. Hectic. So many people like pizza. I don't understand. It's ugly & greasy. But at least I got to slice it. That was fun. But the bad part is it melted my glove. No protection. Haha. Sounds dirty. It was gross and embarrassing when I found my index sticking out from my glove. I felt like I exposed myself. And I was really grossed out because they make us wear hats, and I totally got little precursor pimples from that stupid hat. I was sweating. I was probably making people sick to their stomachs. Oh and salads. What's the point of pairing something as eternally unhealthy as grease-face pizza pies with salads. Trying to feel good about yourself? Well, actually, those who ordered pizza & chicken pesto pasta salad, that's another story. Anyways, I was sweating under the heat of the pizza warming device. I don't have a proper name for it. Let's name her Gidget. Yah, so Gidget was hot enough to burn a hole through my glove. And she also got my sweat glands all riled up. Gross. So during my fifteen minute break, I went to the restroom. So sick. I uncapped and found my pulled-back hair all over my forehead. It was sick. Enough of that. On to more serious matters.

I had my review session. I was a little hesitant to go, because I was like, well, my TA will be there, what if she thinks I'm going because I'm a slacker and I didn't read the entire quarter... She knows I read, at least at the last section she surveyed and I was a reader. But anyways, I got over it, and went. Serious. There are some major slackers. "What is Sondra?" What the fcuk. Don't you mean Who is Sondra? And the same guy kept asking the same questions that exposed himself as a lazy fool. "If that term was an ID, what points should we include?"

That did it. I felt like my peers were idiots. I mean I know most people read and were there genuinely trying to get a handle on what the exam would possibly cover. But some people were there expecting to get taught. To learn new things. Muh gah!

And then someone asked a question regarding moral binary in Hollywood. I was ashamed at the TAs' answers. They said the moral binary was between West Hollywood and Hollywood. First of all, moral binary is applied in discussing within a same community. So that begs the question, do you even know that those two regions are separate and distinct entities? Katz was talking about the moral binary in Hollywood, the dichotomy within the Latino neighborhoods--the working-class Latinos and the street people, the "deviants" and cholos. And also on a larger scale, the separation which exists between the hills and the street level. And as far as I understood, Hollywoodland was NOT referring to Hollywood! Hollywoodland is a certain community within Hollywood!

It just really irks me that they so proudly shared their goods. Their impostered goods! How can they so forcefully disseminate wrong information. It's so gross. I hate how community histories are mixed up like that. You're messing with history and you're messing with students' ability to comprehend. They will misunderstand like crazy. And you are responsible! At least if you aren't so sure, say. "Well, you stumped me; let me look that up." You're human, you don't know everything! So just admit it. Don't answer questions you don't know. You're making everyone stupid.





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