Moving (Again) (For Real)

I've reached a sort of impasse with this blog. Sapped by school work and my "job blogs," I find tapping out anything more than 2 paragraphs here just too draining. It wouldn't quite be fit to call this a blog anymore -- it's a few sentences shy of a Twitterfeed. I find myself more interested in maintaining digital scrapbook than a blog these days, and Tumblr is the perfect medium. Should I ever find myself needing to write those long reflective entries as I did in the early days of this blog, I will occasionally return here. Otherwise, off to the Tumblelog.

So there's this guy here whom I've sort of rubbed elbows with. I wasn't very impressed when I met him, writing him off an arrogant jerk.

A couple days ago, I was reading the NYT essay about being Quaded (out of all things) that reviewed a couple of books about college admissions. The name of one student mentioned in the reviewed books seemed very familiar, so I had a sneaking suspicion it was him. A quick Google search affirmed the case.

Holy crap. He has earned very right to be an arrogant jerk.

Honest to Blog!

Did I seriously just quote Juno?

To the point - I've reread the past few entries and they've sounded all to negative. I'm a firm believer in the idea that you can't love something without hating it -- at least a little bit, at least some of the time. It's just that when I'm in rapturous states I tend to be running around doing things, but when I'm feeling not so rapturous, I pour my insecurities into the text.

Gotta bounce.

Seriously? Seriously?

I am not a big fan of the myopic politicos that run around college campuses. Usually though, I expect them to be students, not professors.

I am not a big fan of Hillary's fear-mongering Red Phone ad either. But this editorial, in the New York Times no less, is probably the most ill-intentioned, poorly researched, patently ridiculous piece I've read in a long time. (As someone who reads college newspapers, I already set my bar fairly low.) Patterson's editorial criticizes the Red Phone, out of all things wrong with it, as racist. His logic yields such gems as:

when I saw the Clinton ad’s central image — innocent sleeping children and a mother in the middle of the night at risk of mortal danger — it brought to my mind scenes from the past. I couldn’t help but think of D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” the racist movie epic that helped revive the Ku Klux Klan

Oh boy, from Clinton to the KKK in less than one sentence. Major props. Professor Patterson, do you really believe what you're saying in this editorial? If so, I think "spending [your] life studying the pictures and symbols of racism and slavery" has warped your sensibilities quite a bit. Leaving the ivory tower for some fresh air may help.

IvyGoss

I thought he was a huge tool this summer, and now my thoughts have only been further confirmed. That summer job taught be an invaluable lesson in how much I dislike corporate politics and ibanking-aspirants.