my victory's complete, so hail to the king
"You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" Then sometimes you just wanna know more about a person. What do they like? What do they hate? And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out."
High School? College? Working?:
I am in college, studying math and theater, and coming up with more reasons not to be Catholic every day. Right now I think I'm taking 19 credits, next semester I will take the same, and after that I will be a senior still taking gen ed requirements! I also have a sweet job in the scene shop at school, building awesome things and playing with lights.
What do you want to be if you're not already working as it?:
I want to teach for a while, possibly with Teach for America but I have heard more bad experiences from that than good ones, so maybe not. Then I want to go to grad school probably for math education and teach people how to teach math without fucking it up and making their students feel stupid. If that doesn't work out, I can always build sets or be an electrician in a theater.
Relationship with your parents?:
Usually awesome, especially when I only visit home, not live there!
Any kids:
Now, but we are about to adopt two cats that will be our babies, even though they aren't kittens anymore.
Brothers or sisters?:
Two sisters. Both wacky, but in different ways. I love them oh so very much, and I wish I could spend more time with them!
Any pets?:
Get back to me in a few days.
Dating anyone at the moment?:
Yes. His name is William. He's been around for so long, that I doubt any of you don't know about us!
Religion, do ya dig it?:
(With a shovel!) I find it really interesting--sometimes terrifying. I think religions are generally frustrating because they make very important and personal decisions for people for the sake of "rightness" or "goodness" or "the deity says so." Also, several religions, and veins within those religions, have a very strong evangelist and recruitment element that absolutely drives me crazy. They don't seem to understand that The Right Choice for them is not necessarily The Right Choice for someone else. In fact, very few people only have one choice that's right for them; they have many. Religions also rarely carry logical arguments out far enough to have consistency. For instance, most Catholics will tell you that male masturbation is wrong because all those little life-giving sperm are going to waste. That ideas comes partly from Thomas Aquinas, but Aquinas followed the line of logic, which lead him to state that rape is not a sin whatsoever--in fact it is a far better thing to do than masturbate because, in rape, those sperm are being given a home. Now find me Catholics who believe that rape is awesome and helps society. I feel like a large part of modern Christianity just treats the Bible and other religious documents like a buffet: they take what's useful and ignore the rest and end up with all these contradicting beliefs.
After having said all of that, I do attend church with my family when I am home, but it is mostly a comfort thing for me. I love the people, I think it's really interesting to hear what they have to say, and it provides family bonding time. I just ignore the parts about Jesus being anything more than human, think of the God parts as purely cultural, and take what I can from everything else.
Something everyone loves that you hate:
Working out. I guess I don't hate it, but I have never enjoyed it. I have to trick myself into doing it by making it necessary for my day to continue or by being in a musical with dancing or something like that.
Something everyone hates that you love:
N'Sync, Backstreet Boys, and Britney Spears. They are so wonderful!
Something a lot of people are into you're indifferent about:
Project Runway. I've just never gotten into it.
Something different about your online self and your real life self?:
I am a big internet whiner and I don't say very much online. Offline, I talk or sing or make noise almost non-stop, and I much less whiny (unless you ask William).
Do listen to more Japanese music or music from your own country?:
My own country. Anything else would be unpatriotic. Really, though, I have a few anime soundtracks, but that's about it.
What are or were you teased about most in high school? Or are you the one doing the teasing?:
I was the girl making out in the hall for a while, but not for too long. In middle school, I was the one making fun of people, but rarely to their face.
Describe your favorite teacher:
Dr. Jeff Gauthier. He teaches philosophy, is completely hard core, and squirms nervously when he talks, even a little when he's teaching. Super feminist, to the left, subversive, introspective, intelligent, and deep, he seeks out the logical fallacies in our world. Most everything he says makes you go, "OOOOOOooooooh... That totally makes sense!" And he likes Sleater-Kinney!!!!!
Describe your least favorite teacher:
Dr. Thom Faller. Men like him keep patriarchy alive and well because it gives them everything they need, which includes keeping them on top no matter what. That's why he loves Catholicism because it makes him an authority automatically and gives him the right to tell other people exactly what to do. He thinks he is an ethicist (really he's just a Natural Law-toting Catholic who wants to save babies at any cost) who works on the ethical board of every practically Catholic hospital/medical institution in the metro area. He goes to conferences left and right, spouting his "it's so obvious I am right" bull shit every where he goes. He makes sexist comments and jokes in class, laughing heartily at them all. He views himself as the expert, and his students as non-experts, so any criticism he gets that can be related back to a student, is obviously worthless because we don't know what we're talking out. That's why we're in college--to be told what to think and how to think it and what to say if anyone questions us. We all want to grow up to be like you, Dr. Faller--except for the women, who just want to grow up to be like Mrs. Faller (that's what he called her class) because that's all we'll ever amount to. When he retires (which should be soooooooon), I might share a few choice words with him on his way out. Namely, "pompous ass."