on days like these

[theladyrose]

Do you ever have those days when you can feel your IQ dropping by the minute because you're ridiculously tired?

To borrow a line from Kerstin, this afternoon was one of my not-so-shining moments.

I had been playing around in my head with a clip of the title song from the original Italian Job, "On Days Like These" sung by "the British Frank Sinatra," Matt Munro. I had spent a good portion of CrWr trying to figure out why the heck it was in Italian. When coming home I finally realized when pulling into the garage that the film is set in Italy, so it's not terribly surprising that the title song would be in the location country's language.

My brilliance is absolutely astounding.

I almost feel sorry for all of the freshmen whose essays I have looked over, because I've probably told them something terribly stupid. I'm really starting to get annoyed with all of the jolly symbolism of A Tale of Two Cities; thankfully this is the last essay to be written about the book. And then we get to those French coal miners of Zola's...

I swear I wrote much better as a freshman than some of these kids I help. Sorry, but it's true. It's the old proofreader/editor in me who wants to go teach them a few basics about writing essays. For God's sake, can't they learn how to spell "Monsieur"?! Most of these girls take French! And I'm going to scream if I see another "This quote shows that..."

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[latina-business.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahah..... I definately was one of the "This quote shows that...." exploiters way back when it was my turn to write those horrid essays on TOTC (McKee, you still rock). But, strangely and rather humorously, I never EVER read the book. I picked up the book, opened the soft cover (because Castilleja seems to be anti-hard cover books unless it comes a true classic known as The Odyssey, in which case I would much rather have the soft cover version because the ink with which the title was printed on the front cover failed to be practical and actually stick to the book. Oh yes, by the end of it my book title read, "T-- O--ss--y". How funny, because after having disturbing conversations with Mr. Smoot about the sex scenes, I personally felt like tossing a few cookies.) Back to my point, I read the first line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," put the book down and never picked it up again until 2 days before the essay was due when I just simply opened up to random pages in the book, scanned them and decided in my mind that "hey, this quote, if thoroughly explained, could technically support my thesis." Yet, I ended up receiving A's or A-'s on all of the essays centered around TOTC. Well, let's just say that those sneaky habits have backfired on me this year....