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Today in Spanish Lit it was oral presentation day. I blabbed for a few minutes on the Fiestas Patrias in Chile, mostly random drivel about how it is funny that they are so close to the Allende assassination, since I didn't *actually* do any research or preparation for said topic. Then I watched freshman-boy sleepily explain in broken español, why he thought that illegal immigration was "una cosa muy mala," that must be stopped immediately. I think my TA sensed the disgust for his rhetoric in my perhaps excessive eye-rolling, and briefly opened the topic up for discussion. I declined to participate for various reasons - first of all, the fact that said TA is Mexican makes the subject a bit uncomfortable, and secondly, it was 9 o'clock in the morning.
This all provided a very good setting for the rest of my day, when I came home and attempted to write a paper for Poli150. I have spent the past four hours trying to come up with something compelling, comprehensive and definitive to say about illegal immigration and its possible solutions. However, I have realized: there is nothing really compelling, comprehensive and definitive to say about it except that it happens a lot, it is not necessarily bad for the economy, it pisses off a lot of people, and there is no logical or skillful way to stop it without a serious reorganization of domestic-policy-as-we-know-it. And I have said as much, in a slightly more intellectual way, with slightly more literary and statistical examples, but such inability is still rather frustrating. This paper is due in an hour and twenty minutes and I do not yet have the Fear - only irritation with all of the world because I cannot easily and eloquently put it into a five page box.
But at least I am not trying to diss immigrants in Spanish, shit. That is like mocking the victims of September 11 in New York City.
This all provided a very good setting for the rest of my day, when I came home and attempted to write a paper for Poli150. I have spent the past four hours trying to come up with something compelling, comprehensive and definitive to say about illegal immigration and its possible solutions. However, I have realized: there is nothing really compelling, comprehensive and definitive to say about it except that it happens a lot, it is not necessarily bad for the economy, it pisses off a lot of people, and there is no logical or skillful way to stop it without a serious reorganization of domestic-policy-as-we-know-it. And I have said as much, in a slightly more intellectual way, with slightly more literary and statistical examples, but such inability is still rather frustrating. This paper is due in an hour and twenty minutes and I do not yet have the Fear - only irritation with all of the world because I cannot easily and eloquently put it into a five page box.
But at least I am not trying to diss immigrants in Spanish, shit. That is like mocking the victims of September 11 in New York City.