I set my bangs aflame.
That probably means I should cut them.
um, what else ...
I started going to Binghamton University, finally. It's going ok so far - the classes are a little bit harder than at the community college, but not by a lot. And most of them are ok - I'm taking "Disease, Medicine and Empire", "Cinema and Violence", "Irish History, 1600-1998", and "Fantastic* Spaces in Film and Lit" which is about half a lit class, half a philosophy class on the concept of "space". The Irish history lectures are kind of dry, but the lecture class is good. We're doing a unit on Irish history in "Cinema and Violence", too, so I get plenty of that cheerful subject. Reading a bunch of different things - James Joyce is interesting (but
OMG what a freak). We're supposed to read a few magical realism novels in the "Spaces" class, looking forward to that. I dragged my ass on reading "Year of the French" by Thomas Flanagan, but it's actually pretty good (it's about the rebellion in 1798, from about a bazillion points of view on it).
*which I can't not hear in the Ninth Doctor voice. fantastic!
In
theory I'm going to have a job back at BCC as a tutor ... in statistics. Also possibly a history class or two (or basically anything I got an A in), but I was specifically recommended to teach statistics by my professor, which is ... cool, but very strange. I did pretty well in that class, but I'm not sure how - I feel like I only got every other thing we learned. But, especially since nowhere else I've applied to has called me, I'm totally willing to give tutoring a shot. I just realllly don't want to fuck someone up with bad tuting. And I guess this will be a good start towards eventually becoming a history teacher, which seems like the most likely thing I'll do with a history degree. I wonder how you get into TAing here. I want to maybe teach a "history and film" class - it'll combine two things I like, and also I'll get to show movies all day.
Or possibly a "Doctor Who" class, since I'm watching so damn much of it.
Look at that shit. There's just something about it that's very appealing to me, even when it's bad. And man, it is bad a lot. Like, it has about the same ratio of bad episodes to good that Original Series Star Trek has which is bad cause, a) Star Trek had a lot of bad episodes, and b) Doctor Who has like, nearly 50 years of that ratio of bad episodes. Which isn't to say I don't completely love this show, cause I do, it's just - yikes, sometimes.
I've seen every Doctor except Eight at least once so far, and I read a Doctor Who novel featuring him - that I got way before I watched this, for some reason - so I kind of have an idea of his character. I've only seen Two in multiple Doctor escapades and I've only seen one serial of Six's, so those two I don't have as clear an impression of, but I've seen quite a bit of Three, Four and Five and a little of One and Seven, and I like them all. Nine is "my Doctor", maybe because he was my first, but I think I would have liked him whenever I came across him. <3 Nine. Oh, Christopher Eccleston, you bastard, do some kind of "Multiple Doctors Get into Exponentially Crazier Hijinks" special with David Tennant and maybe the next guy. And go back to Heroes while you're at it.
giant fuck-all post of Thoughts on Dr Who Characters next, it's getting too long
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