Sounds kinda contradictory, don't it? Yes, this should probably be in the Starving Student blog, but I just don't feel like a starving student yet, honestly. I haven't even done my first grocery trip. Anyhow...
I took my first final yesterday. 'Twas the culmination of my six-day course on Dante's Inferno, and it wasn't half bad. Two hours, and my responses filled two lined sheets of paper front and back. I felt pretty good about it.
In other news, shortly after the final, there was an end-of-Late-Summer-Honors dance...with non-LSH roommates, and basically anyone else who found out about it invited as well. I got there late, but enjoyed myself immensely. And everyone seems to have this wild notion that I know how to dance. Highly amusing, really. My roommates, who were also in attendance, voiced jealous impulses. I told them to make fools of themselves and it would get better, but they didn't take my advice.
I met a guy who's really good at leading, though. He is also under the impression that I know how to dance, so he asked me to do some swing and later on some waltz. Surprisingly enough, we did not look like complete idiots, which is a fine compliment to him. I tend to instinctively rebel against any sort of leading, but he had me doing some simple lift-dip things during the swing and I managed the waltz fairly well on top of that.
Oh, and finding all the cultrual nuances that separate British from American makes me laugh. My British roommate can entertain me for quite some time discussing kitchen rolls.
4 comments:
life in and of itself is kind of contradictory at the moment.
there are very few who actually will take the advice to look like fools until they don't i know that it takes me a long time to work up the guts to actually do something.
i love good leaders. and i love linguistic nuances for the most part.
Yeah, I know it takes people a while to be foolish on purpose. But once they realize that being human entails being a fool, it's not so bad.
the trouble comes when they use foolishness as a cover for their real selves, however.
Well, yes, but that in and of itself gives away part of their real selves. Think of it in terms of books. If there were a character that was always trying to be an idiot, you'd know, somehow, that it was a character who felt they had something to hide, or something about themselves they wanted to escape.
So really, being an idiot as a coverup just makes you look like an insecure idiot, and it's fairly obvious.
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