Wow I'm posting alot today. Eh well, deal with it.
I never thought the word "mind-numbing" was actually possible until my English class today. Gods, my professor is stupider than I thought, >_< Well, less stupid and more INANE. Rrgh...:::shakes her head furiously back and forth a few times to clear it:: Ontop of a 3 PAGE ONLY research paper, we're supposed to paraphrase the 2 1/2 pages on plagarism in the back of our Writers handbook for our paper too. Stooopid, as the parrrot would say. Argh, I don't want to even do my research paper now because it's too short for me to write decently on my topic.
It probably isn't, but it sure feels that way.... I finally get into college, get handed an English research paper that I want to write, and what does he do? He makes it SHORT. 3 fucking pages, MAXIMUM for an argumentative documented essay. How the hell do you argue a topic in 3 pages?! ARGH.
My topic, BTW, is "Alternative Lifestyles". Heh, yup - Furry. My thesis (or as close as I can get to one now ¬_¬), is that furry people are negatively portrayed in the media and that we aren't as big and bad as MTV says we are. This is actually rather specfic for me and anyone who knows my problems with thesis statements... but I just don't see how I'm going to cram that argument into 3 pages. I mean, this is the usual double-spaced, line-indented research format we've had since high school, and I *know* how long it takes me to argue something... Opening paragraph to explain the fandom, and set-up the statements we are negatively portrayed and here are the reasons why we aren't. First paragraph deals with MTV's "special" on us, and in general all the negative press the fandom gets, as well as any "common" myths about the community (sex with plushies, getting 'turned on' by pictures of animals, etc.) and the other two pargraphs spent trying to debunk the myths in the first paragraph. Not to mention trying to find places to squeeze in quotations and citations among my own soapbox about this... Thankfully we only have to have 3 sources, but even with just 3 sources to back up my arguments, it still isn't going to fit into a 3 page essay proper.
Just argh... I don't want to work on it now, so I'm going to cool my jets with some video games before going down to Fern and getting my S&M albums. Hopefully some Metallica will kick my butt into gear so I can half-ass the majority of this paper tonight. I'll still have Wendesday night and Thursday-day to polish it up before it's due Thursday afternoon, but I want to try and get as much written tonight as I can. I might also ask one or two of you guys to proof-read this for me and help me trim it down to 3 pages if I just can't find stuff to omit after I get it roughed out. Bleaah, stoopid Engrish teacher-man person... hate is to you.
Off to go stare at my game collection and see which system I want to try and fight with tonight. Fucking cable connections, everytime I get them set up, someone takes them all apart and rewires the back of the TV again. Kuri isn't working again and this time, I know it isn't my system malfunctioning...
Note to self: Talk to Kerry whenever she gets in. Must get pantry/bathroom stuff cleared up before accidentally snapping at her.
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