another late night

[bluvishnu]

all this "in bed by 3" business will kill me sooner or later. probably sooner rather than later. with each passing day, i'm more and more confident in my ability to make shit up on the fly. also, an idea struck me (like a mighty blow, during my AmLit class around noon)! i think i'd like to write an essay called "Language of the Classroom." Of course I'd try to sophisticate it up a bit to sound more academic, but it conveys the basic idea, which is this: throughout highschool and college, i have been hearing the same discussions in my classes over and over. The reason for this is a bizarre (but ultimately understandable) anomaly. In academic environs, the "collective conscious" vocabulary is applied, that is to say, all students everywhere use the same thousand or so words to express themselves and their ideas. I cannot impress on you enough how pathetic this is. I don't care what class you happen to be in, listen for these favorites that I have noticed: "like..." "um..." "well..." okay, and now for the serious stuff. How many times have you heard the word "dichotomy" used in the last week? For me, the answer is literally in the dozens. Why do students love this word so, and do they truly understand its full definition? I suspect not, yet still they toss it around like some sort of grave frisbee. There are hundreds of these terrible words which I could point out, or you could here them for yourself in your friendly local humanities class. When was the last time you heard the word "putrid" in a classroom, or "autochthon?" We need to more fully realize our Greek inheritance, people! But for now I'd better go fully realize my bed. Or at least comprehend its subtle dichotomy.

(One last though: at what point in this entry did I relapse into proper capitalization?)