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I just downloaded something called "The Picard Rap." It's Picard quotes ("There are four lights," "Energize," "Make it so," "Shut up, Wesley!" and others), with some voice modulation, laid over an unchanging electronic beat like you would find an an electronic keyboard.
So. Freaking. Hilarious.
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Y'know, Allyson sells herself short as a lead. Okay, she doesn't know how to lead things beyond newcomer level, but there's a difference between being a good lead and knowing the footwork involved in the steps. She's not a bad lead. She's better than some of the guys in our club. Okay, so we won't get called back in Latin, which is what we're dancing together, because we don't know the cool stuff with her as a lead, but by god, we're gonna look cute and have fun while doing it. ;)
And if I don't get a partner from a random school for the other sections (I filled out the form and sent it back to the organizers, begging for any partner for any of the other three bronze sections), I'll just hang out upstairs and watch the pros. Or, y'know, get started on the 1200 or so pages I need to read over Thanksgiving so that I'll have time when I'm home to work on the web project for Bio. (Yes, this "vacation" is going to suck mightily.) I'm holding no hope for getting a partner for any of the actual syllabus sections, but with any luck I'll get to do at least one of the eight or so fun dances. I really hope I can find someone to do polka with me.
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I've narrowed potential Irish Lit. final paper topics down to two. First is the more traditional naming-the-Irish-landscape-through-stories thing that'll use Sweeney Astray, At Swim-Two-Birds (even though it's evil incoherent postmodernist nonsense) and various myths and legends. Plus maybe bits of "The Dead" from Dubliners. The other is a sort of "Irish Studies" one that McMullen said would be okay (she okayed the idea of Irish Studies as a topic, not mine specifically...yet). I'm thinking maybe something about the new Irish Renaissance, with Riverdance and all the renewed interest in Irish music, literature, names, dance, etc. etc. I'm actually really excited about that idea, but I don't have the first clue where to find info. I don't even know what to search under at the library's catalogue. Watch me go haunt my prof's office tomorrow...
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Brownie points to anyone who gets the Invisible Man reference in the subject line. ;)
I just downloaded something called "The Picard Rap." It's Picard quotes ("There are four lights," "Energize," "Make it so," "Shut up, Wesley!" and others), with some voice modulation, laid over an unchanging electronic beat like you would find an an electronic keyboard.
So. Freaking. Hilarious.
---
Y'know, Allyson sells herself short as a lead. Okay, she doesn't know how to lead things beyond newcomer level, but there's a difference between being a good lead and knowing the footwork involved in the steps. She's not a bad lead. She's better than some of the guys in our club. Okay, so we won't get called back in Latin, which is what we're dancing together, because we don't know the cool stuff with her as a lead, but by god, we're gonna look cute and have fun while doing it. ;)
And if I don't get a partner from a random school for the other sections (I filled out the form and sent it back to the organizers, begging for any partner for any of the other three bronze sections), I'll just hang out upstairs and watch the pros. Or, y'know, get started on the 1200 or so pages I need to read over Thanksgiving so that I'll have time when I'm home to work on the web project for Bio. (Yes, this "vacation" is going to suck mightily.) I'm holding no hope for getting a partner for any of the actual syllabus sections, but with any luck I'll get to do at least one of the eight or so fun dances. I really hope I can find someone to do polka with me.
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I've narrowed potential Irish Lit. final paper topics down to two. First is the more traditional naming-the-Irish-landscape-through-stories thing that'll use Sweeney Astray, At Swim-Two-Birds (even though it's evil incoherent postmodernist nonsense) and various myths and legends. Plus maybe bits of "The Dead" from Dubliners. The other is a sort of "Irish Studies" one that McMullen said would be okay (she okayed the idea of Irish Studies as a topic, not mine specifically...yet). I'm thinking maybe something about the new Irish Renaissance, with Riverdance and all the renewed interest in Irish music, literature, names, dance, etc. etc. I'm actually really excited about that idea, but I don't have the first clue where to find info. I don't even know what to search under at the library's catalogue. Watch me go haunt my prof's office tomorrow...
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Brownie points to anyone who gets the Invisible Man reference in the subject line. ;)
