In Which Homework is Offensive

03.12.2008

Finished my presentation last night at about 1am, then couldn't fall asleep. Despite this, today was not terrible.

Olga did her presentation in class before me, and she did well. Topic was on Iran's nuclear aspirations. So I learned a bit, since I hadn't known much before. After that, I did my presentation, which I thought was probably terribly boring for everyone, and I kept stumbling over myself and saying "Yakunovych" instead of "Yanukovych."

But, professor said it was a good presentation, afterwards. We'll see what this "good" translates to, grade-wise.

Can I just say something? I hate NATO. And I'm not sure if it's because everything I read is about NATO, or if it's just because everything I'm reading is from the Russian perspective on NATO. Perhaps it's a bit of both. Either way, I wouldn't mind if NATO were dissolved, personally. Big headache gone right there.

BUT INSTEAD, THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT KEEPS GETTING DISSOLVED. WHAT THE HELL?

I think there might be some sort of feud between ... two of my professors. I won't say their names, for fear they might discover my blog. But yeah. It's somewhat disappointing, since I really like both of them. But, it happens.

I don't really have much more to say ... ? Uhm... I'm going shopping tomorrow (maybe), and to the political museum on Saturday... Not yet sure what I'll be doing on Friday. Maybe I'll start studying for my finals. we'll see.

But for now I must do grammar homework. Which I sorely do not want to touch.

Actually, after looking at said grammar homework, I do want to say something:

I have to read a poem and answer a bunch of dumb questions about it – The poem is by Maria Tsvetaeva, who was a LESBIAN poet in the early 1900's in Russia, who chased after other women poets and wrote love poems to AMAZONIAN WARRIORS and whatnot. Well, the description of the poem says that the poem is directed towards a MAN. There is NO indication in this particular poem that the object of love is a MAN, since she uses the PLURAL/FORMAL to refer to the object of love, and there is no DISTINCTION between GENDER in the PLURAL. In ADDITION, she says they will never be MARRIED in a CHURCH and that all their strolls were at NIGHT and not UNDER THE SUN (ADD LINE HERE: SO THAT WE AREN'T KILLED BY MISOGYNIST PIGS). I'm going to try and translate this paragraph and put it into my homework.

Alright, finished.