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Name: Anna Kate
Country: Antarctica
Interests: writing poetry, being outside, hiking, reading, drawing, going hither and yon, music of all sorts (played and listened to), blowing bubbles, occasionally talking about things of "depth", being silly, jumping in puddles, people watching, tea, the colors green and brown
Expertise: ha! that will be the day....
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AIM:  arwenaya
Member Since:
6/24/2004
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| ...and... STILL ALIVE! yeah for me!  and engaged. and working. and stuff. uh-huh. call me or email me if you actually want to hear more about my life. | | |
| For the record, I do still exist. I even survived finals. But I am now in a foreign country. Turkey, actually. It is lots of fun, and Im sure that when I get back (the 9th of June) Ill be happy to tell people all about it, and display mountains of pictures. Hopefully the rest of you are having an enjoyable summer. =)
(See Natalie, now Ive posted, so there...*wink*) ...and apologies for the lack of apostrophes...I cant find them on this Turkish keyboard. | | |
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What do I win? I do like the hair, though... | | |
| In the midst of writing papers and studying, I think I have realized something about myself and the way I approach education. I am afraid to ask questions for which I do not already have a solidly defensible answer. This may be a vestige of my debate cross-examination training. Or it may just be a manifestation of my pride, which doesn't want to admit that there are vast numbers of important things I don't know. At all. And because of this, my ability to really learn things has been stunted. College is supposed to be a time of hashing through the questions that really matter, of coming to terms with the great academic conversation, and of learning to discuss something for the sake of finding an answer, not of winning an argument. Instead, it seems like my academic experience is one of doing just enough to moderately succeed in my classes, and spending the rest of my time in mindless entertainment. Would that I spent more of it writing, and reading good books, and then thinking about them until I came to a solid conclusion of what I thought about them, instead of leaving them with only a fuzzy impression one way or the other. Somehow I need to find a way to escape mental ossification in the midst of academia. Any thoughts? | | |
| In the midst of writing a ridiculous number of papers, I am deeply comforted to know that I am Dennis the peasant. Hurray! My whole day is just a little happier.
You are Dennis the Repressed! A political activist
way ahead of your time. Everyone is always out
to get you...but you'll fight them to the death!
Which Monty Python & the Holy Grail Character are you REALLY?
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