By: Annna
[2000-10-24]
English Course Packet
I is an English major.
Well, at least it's not another goddamn Duck pun. Hooray for the University of Oregon!
Don't I have lovely handwriting? That's my "crazed serial killer in a hurry" script. I'm usually capable of
much neater block capitals.
It seemed that all of the Reed
College students learned to play
chamber music on the recorder
and caligraphy when I was living
in Portland. By the time they
graduated, they could draw up
their own sheep skins. The school
president was some guy who lived
in the Commons, not even a student,
but some sort of pool hustler.
There wasn't a football team,
but they had one cheerleader
with a short pleated skirt
and a hooded warmup jacket that
said "Reed." I liked that student
time better than graduate school
at American University in Washington.
American's a Methodist school
although one wouldn't know it,
save for the lifesized statue
of John Wesley, the traveling
preacher, on horseback. AU's biggest
source of income is the Army, they
do up the Country Books for every
country in the world every year,
and do some other research, too.
The Naval Security Station is there,
and once we got to hear a microsecond
beep that was a high-speed code
transmission from Moscow to the
Russian embassy, instructions for
a whole month. They have a drama
school, too, besides international
studies, business, and the regular
stuff. The guy who played Bonnie
and Clyde's babyfaced sidekick
studied drama there at AU.
Michael J. Pollard, yeah.
He was on StarTrek, too.
American U. booked "The Pretenders"
to play at Spring Break, but
The Pretenders got so popular
that about fifty busloads of kids
from all over were going to come,
so, they booked some less popular band.
American U. is built on an old
500 acre Army chemical warfare
test site. Not much sports,
and only a few guys with baggy
sweet pants with greek letters
on the butt. I like caligraphy!
I like to say the word, "uncial!"
Uncial! Uncial! Uncial!
Uncial derives from the manuscript
style of the Middle Ages.
Handwriting isn't an indication of much of anything else. On a bulletin board on campus, there was an advertisement, in handwriting so wonderful I had to stop and stare, for "Musical Tudoring". It's sad really.
Yeah, musical tudoring--
Maybe it's Elizabethan music!?
Your uni's a former US Army chemical weapons test site? Ha. My college is built on a 14th century plague pit. We're expecting the anthrax to die in about 1300 years' time.
"Anthrax" was my computer password
at American U.. Those bacteria
under your uni might not die after
all that time, but mutate into
something else. They're still
disarming bombs from WWII in the UK,
so I hear. If you've never seen
the film, "King of Hearts," you
might find it funny and amusing.
well, it's october 27, 2001 now, and all this casual talk of anthrax seems so weird. weird... weird...
blaugh!
Yeah, musical tudoring--
Maybe it's Elizabethan music!?
Just going through the archive and I found this comment and found it hillariously funny, not sure if it was meant to be. After all musical tudoring would be more likely Tudor music.
