Your words repeat on you like a bad curry sometimes. I would advise keeping things to yourself to avoid them getting spread about like a sexually transmitted disease.
Especially if there is pragmatic ambuguity; I didn't mean it!
Bye for now.
SQ
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Monday, 13 October 2008
Brevity is the soul of wit
Oh god. I wish I could keep it short and sweet! I've spoken before about how I wished I had said less or nothing or something different, so I'll leave you to check that out in the archives, but I'm feeling it again. Maybe it would be best if everyone communicated in little paper notes, so that i could think about what I said before I said it. How much regret would that save?
Well. Anyway, how are you? Yeah? Good, me too.
Everything's a little bit on top of me; namely, university. There is a literally a university crushing me. Well, I have to apply PDQ, ASAP and ... now.
The main problem I had with it was writing my personal statement. I am applying to study English (surprising?) and so assumed that my personal statement will have to be an epic piece of prose which shows just how great I can be. Except it isn't; it doesn't. It just talks about stuff I've read and am reading. It doesn't talk like I talk; it's way more formal, and it doesn't have all the hand gestures and big eyes and emphasis I have. It's not me. I think that maybe universities should employ a new system where prospective students are sent to live with the tutors for a bit so that we can really show them how great we are. I mean... it's never enough, is it? If you don't get a place, it's easy enough to say 'Yeah, but you can't possibly tell just from 47 lines' or even 'Yeah but it was only a 45 minute interview'. I can imagine myself saying those things in a few months. I hope I won't, but it's so unpredictable. Will they want me? Who knows. I want know!
So, here is one instance where words are frightfully important; 4000 characters that can make or break your life. Even 45 minutes of conversation - it can do the same. I just hope I don't go to any interviews and say stupid things which I later spend hours regretting. That really would be a sour taste.
In other news, check out Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip. Great lyrics, especially 'Tommy C' and 'Thou Shalt Always Kill'. The album's called 'Angles' - not Angels as music blogs keep saying.
Some people, eh?
Thanks
Sq.
Well. Anyway, how are you? Yeah? Good, me too.
Everything's a little bit on top of me; namely, university. There is a literally a university crushing me. Well, I have to apply PDQ, ASAP and ... now.
The main problem I had with it was writing my personal statement. I am applying to study English (surprising?) and so assumed that my personal statement will have to be an epic piece of prose which shows just how great I can be. Except it isn't; it doesn't. It just talks about stuff I've read and am reading. It doesn't talk like I talk; it's way more formal, and it doesn't have all the hand gestures and big eyes and emphasis I have. It's not me. I think that maybe universities should employ a new system where prospective students are sent to live with the tutors for a bit so that we can really show them how great we are. I mean... it's never enough, is it? If you don't get a place, it's easy enough to say 'Yeah, but you can't possibly tell just from 47 lines' or even 'Yeah but it was only a 45 minute interview'. I can imagine myself saying those things in a few months. I hope I won't, but it's so unpredictable. Will they want me? Who knows. I want know!
So, here is one instance where words are frightfully important; 4000 characters that can make or break your life. Even 45 minutes of conversation - it can do the same. I just hope I don't go to any interviews and say stupid things which I later spend hours regretting. That really would be a sour taste.
In other news, check out Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip. Great lyrics, especially 'Tommy C' and 'Thou Shalt Always Kill'. The album's called 'Angles' - not Angels as music blogs keep saying.
Some people, eh?
Thanks
Sq.
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