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Professor’s say the darndest things.
Often, I find myself horribly bored with whatever’s going on, and my mind drifts, and I’ll write random song lyrics, movie/show quotes, or just random things the teacher says that I find interesting in the margins of my notes. I also doodle, but the doodling consists of poorly shaded roses and flowers, because I can’t draw anything else. Not even stick figures. My stick figures all end up horribly unsymmetrical.
But, I digress.
The point is, my professors occasionally say things that make me laugh.
Take, for instance, my drama teacher. These two stupid girls were laughing really loud, two seats down from me. We’re in the very back row. And he lives his head suddenly to look in our direction. And then he starts looking at his pants and says, “Whenever someone laughs, I always think my fly is open or something.” Which made me really crack up for some reason, and kind of propelled everyone else in the lecture to laugh. He kept looking too, and I couldn’t stop. The simple things amuse me at 10:00am in the morning. It can’t be helped.
Through my film seminar, I’ve been getting to know my film professor a little better, and I think it’s a shame everyone else doesn’t have the same opportunity the fourteen of us enrolled in that additional seminar do. Because she’s hilarious. Today, she reminded everyone that even the “mother friendly movies” still involve the mother as a person viewing them, so they aren’t always mother friendly. And she declared that, “Hillary Duff is my personal sworn enemy,” and then made some comment about her getting hit by a car, and then quickly corrected herself with a quick, “I’m kidding, of course.”
And I’m sitting there and I can’t help but think, “Oh, but are you kidding, Anna? Are you?”
And then later in the lecture, she was talking about genre films and somehow we went from Scream to Titanic, and she said something along the lines of, “Titanic is one of those movies you can sum up in twenty-five words. ‘Boy meets girl, ship sinks.’ Oh look! I did it in five!”
Again. I’m easily amused.
Anyway. I’ve had time to reflect on Veronica Mars’s most recent episode. Due to a long showing of the Shining, I wasn’t able to catch the bus until 9:15, so I ended up missing the first half of the episode. It’s almost finished downloading, so as soon as I re-watch it, I’ll be writing up a longer response, because I’ve decided that there are some things that seriously bugged me about the episode after all.
Often, I find myself horribly bored with whatever’s going on, and my mind drifts, and I’ll write random song lyrics, movie/show quotes, or just random things the teacher says that I find interesting in the margins of my notes. I also doodle, but the doodling consists of poorly shaded roses and flowers, because I can’t draw anything else. Not even stick figures. My stick figures all end up horribly unsymmetrical.
But, I digress.
The point is, my professors occasionally say things that make me laugh.
Take, for instance, my drama teacher. These two stupid girls were laughing really loud, two seats down from me. We’re in the very back row. And he lives his head suddenly to look in our direction. And then he starts looking at his pants and says, “Whenever someone laughs, I always think my fly is open or something.” Which made me really crack up for some reason, and kind of propelled everyone else in the lecture to laugh. He kept looking too, and I couldn’t stop. The simple things amuse me at 10:00am in the morning. It can’t be helped.
Through my film seminar, I’ve been getting to know my film professor a little better, and I think it’s a shame everyone else doesn’t have the same opportunity the fourteen of us enrolled in that additional seminar do. Because she’s hilarious. Today, she reminded everyone that even the “mother friendly movies” still involve the mother as a person viewing them, so they aren’t always mother friendly. And she declared that, “Hillary Duff is my personal sworn enemy,” and then made some comment about her getting hit by a car, and then quickly corrected herself with a quick, “I’m kidding, of course.”
And I’m sitting there and I can’t help but think, “Oh, but are you kidding, Anna? Are you?”
And then later in the lecture, she was talking about genre films and somehow we went from Scream to Titanic, and she said something along the lines of, “Titanic is one of those movies you can sum up in twenty-five words. ‘Boy meets girl, ship sinks.’ Oh look! I did it in five!”
Again. I’m easily amused.
Anyway. I’ve had time to reflect on Veronica Mars’s most recent episode. Due to a long showing of the Shining, I wasn’t able to catch the bus until 9:15, so I ended up missing the first half of the episode. It’s almost finished downloading, so as soon as I re-watch it, I’ll be writing up a longer response, because I’ve decided that there are some things that seriously bugged me about the episode after all.