Dear Blogger,
A whole lot of nothing happened this weekend. Friday morning we had our directed study class. Our assignment due on Friday was to think of a topic we might want to research. I was initially interested in researching the infamous Chicago Democrat Machine. (There was, I think, a thirty year period where little, or maybe there were none, Republicans elected to public office... how did this come about?) I decided at the last moment, though, to research what circumstances led to hate groups in the Chicago area to forming.
Of course, when I told the class about this, The Formation Of Hate Groups, they thought I said The Formation Of Eight Groups. Meaning that when the class was supposed to be helping me to form an idea for my project, there were a few confusing minutes when they were telling me that I should narrow my topic down to maybe two groups.
Then there were a few more embarassing moments when people asked me how I was going to get interviews with hate groups. (We hadn't learned until three minutes earlier that interviews were necessary. I'm interested to see how that will work out.) The end result is that I've never ever in my life gotten helpful advice from any group on any project. I don't think they're stupid, I just don't think people should be giving me ideas on an idea that I'm still forming, unless they're the professor. Things just don't work that way.
On Saturday, nothing happened at all. Ani and I watched Robert Altman's MASH. If you haven't seen it, it's very dark and consequentially, very, very funny. Highly recommended. (Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye doesn't quite have the natural charisma of Alan Alda's Hawkeye, but Alan Alda's Hawkeye doesn't have the twisted sense of humor as Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye.)
Halloween is right around the corner! I got my costume this weekend. Not a word on what it will be. Pictures, eventually.
It's hard to get anything done around here on the weekends, but what is the point, really?
Arches And An After Thought,
Steve
A whole lot of nothing happened this weekend. Friday morning we had our directed study class. Our assignment due on Friday was to think of a topic we might want to research. I was initially interested in researching the infamous Chicago Democrat Machine. (There was, I think, a thirty year period where little, or maybe there were none, Republicans elected to public office... how did this come about?) I decided at the last moment, though, to research what circumstances led to hate groups in the Chicago area to forming.
Of course, when I told the class about this, The Formation Of Hate Groups, they thought I said The Formation Of Eight Groups. Meaning that when the class was supposed to be helping me to form an idea for my project, there were a few confusing minutes when they were telling me that I should narrow my topic down to maybe two groups.
Then there were a few more embarassing moments when people asked me how I was going to get interviews with hate groups. (We hadn't learned until three minutes earlier that interviews were necessary. I'm interested to see how that will work out.) The end result is that I've never ever in my life gotten helpful advice from any group on any project. I don't think they're stupid, I just don't think people should be giving me ideas on an idea that I'm still forming, unless they're the professor. Things just don't work that way.
On Saturday, nothing happened at all. Ani and I watched Robert Altman's MASH. If you haven't seen it, it's very dark and consequentially, very, very funny. Highly recommended. (Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye doesn't quite have the natural charisma of Alan Alda's Hawkeye, but Alan Alda's Hawkeye doesn't have the twisted sense of humor as Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye.)
Halloween is right around the corner! I got my costume this weekend. Not a word on what it will be. Pictures, eventually.
It's hard to get anything done around here on the weekends, but what is the point, really?
Arches And An After Thought,
Steve
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