The fucking academy

[paulhope]

Me: (talks enthusiastically about how well-written Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is)
Mom: Really, you are such a born academic. Not a lot of people can get off on how good a textbook is. Not a lot of people have that capacity...
Me: (walks away, writes angsty -ive-ournal post)

Fuck!

Comments

[thebird]

good to know there are others who get comments like that from their parents when they get excited over a textbook.

[paulhope]

Good to know that there are others who get excited over textbooks.

[theshowmustgo0n]

Mom's right though.

I wouldn't feel bad about it. ::supportive tummy-rub::

[paulhope]

::alternately purrs and kicks self::