London paralyzed by epic snowfall!

[guanin]

Five inch snowfall wreaks havoc! Temperatures plummet to 20° F! All bus services stopped! Flights grounded! Tube crippled by those pesky overground stations! Schools closed! Uni classes canceled! Students pray that snow may continue! And no one bothers to clean the roads

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[guanin]

*laughs* That name is hilarious and so very apt. I think the supply trucks couldn't get there because there were big, empty chunks on the shelves. The whole bagel section was clean.

Well, I took this course/major/whatever to finally get to learn some stuff I hadn't had a chance to study before, and it's a completely different world from undergrad courses. There's no real "bad teaching" going on per se, although sometimes a professor insists on pronouncing a name wrong while the rest of the class roll theirs eyes. Yeah, that happened in that class with a Portuguese name when half the class (including me) knows how to pronounce Portuguese and there's a Brazilian woman. *head desk* The thing is, I had to pick something, but I didn't like any of the choices this semester, so I got stuck with this one. And it's politics! I've never taken politics in my life. There are these terms and models and theories flying around and no one will slow down to explain them properly because most of the class is in the Globalization course and knows them already. I'm a history student people. Sure, that's a social science, but it's classified as humanity at my old uni, so I knwo literature and philosophy and all those things that have no bearing here whatsoever.

The thing is, the class that got cancelled was the one I don't have readings for. And the one where I wanted to talk to the professor to finalize my next essay topic. So not so great. Why couldn't this snowfall have happened today? It's already melting.

[visiblemarket]

It really is. I adore the 30 Rock props people, they're brilliant. Man, that's what happens with cities unprepared for snowfall: I know, for instance, that a certain recently elected President was snarking about all of us DC people being big ol' wimps when it comes to snow, but compared to somewhere like Chicago, we don't have the resources or the experience to behave otherwise. Driving in snow is hard enough when you're used to it and have the proper tires; if you haven't had a reason to learn how to do it and get the proper equipment...well, bad things. Like no bagels.

Ah, that can be tough. But look, it's just...pre-history. In more ways than one, knowing some kinds of politicians ;) Seriously, any of those theories are just the precursors to stuff like...whatever that revolutions model is called. And if it's Mexican politics, it just helps to think of it all as an extension of the original colonial system (although my one and only Latin American history discouraged that) that you already know about.

Bah. The weather is always so inconsiderate.

ETA: and not to sound like too much of a...anything bad...but if you ever need a hand on the globalization and/or politics stuff I know a bit. More about globalization since I dropped my politics classes a while ago, but still.

[guanin]

That's true. The problem here is precisely that. They're not used to this amount of snow (figures we'd have the biggest snowfall in years the one winter am here when I was trying to get away from the stuff, but at least I'm not driving).

Now that I've actually started reading, I am glad (not that it's a good thing) that caudillismo is still the dominant factor, since that's something I just did an essay on, so that makes everything easier to understand. Plus, I found a book that isn't throwing fancy terms in my face every other page and then not explaining them.

Thanks for the offer. The professor does a pretty good job of explaining stuff but the exam in May is freaking me out. and the essay.