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Ah man, tonight's my work do, in a bar apparently based on the bar Hemingway used to drink in when his was grappling with the effeminacy of writing by fishing, hunting, drinking, fighting and enlisting in the Spanish civil war. Never read any Hemingway, but it sure makes the bar sound appealing. The cigar menu alone is 8 pages long.
Anyway I can't go because I have part 1 of my exam for my course. 3 hours on English, current affairs and news-writing. And that's all the information I have. English and news writing, well there's not a lot of revision there, I've practised news writing a bit though.
Current affairs, ech. I've been reading newspapers for weeks, digesting info, forming opinions on issues, but apparently it's just names and events. Who did this? Who was involved in this? Who won this?
And I'm a little nervous about that, just because I'm appalling at names and faces. Take Enron. I read about Enron. I went to see that documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room at the cinema. I could probably, right now, write a 3000 word essay on Enron, what they did, how they got away with it, how it all started crumbling down, the aftermath. Granted it'd be shoddy and the facts would be shot to all hell, but I could give you a few pages on Enron and it would be passable.
But can I give you the name of the CEO of Enron? It's on the tip of my tongue, but no. Jeffrey Skilling, but I just looked it up. And this is the thing, I absorb lots about stuff, but the names of people involved are not among the top things I absorb, and I hope it doesn't fuck me over.
Just keep trying eh? :)
Anyway I can't go because I have part 1 of my exam for my course. 3 hours on English, current affairs and news-writing. And that's all the information I have. English and news writing, well there's not a lot of revision there, I've practised news writing a bit though.
Current affairs, ech. I've been reading newspapers for weeks, digesting info, forming opinions on issues, but apparently it's just names and events. Who did this? Who was involved in this? Who won this?
And I'm a little nervous about that, just because I'm appalling at names and faces. Take Enron. I read about Enron. I went to see that documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room at the cinema. I could probably, right now, write a 3000 word essay on Enron, what they did, how they got away with it, how it all started crumbling down, the aftermath. Granted it'd be shoddy and the facts would be shot to all hell, but I could give you a few pages on Enron and it would be passable.
But can I give you the name of the CEO of Enron? It's on the tip of my tongue, but no. Jeffrey Skilling, but I just looked it up. And this is the thing, I absorb lots about stuff, but the names of people involved are not among the top things I absorb, and I hope it doesn't fuck me over.
Just keep trying eh? :)