It was great seeing most of you over Thanksgiving break! And if I didn't get to see you, I will most definitely poke you over winter break. :)
"The Donner Party film was very tastefully done, ha ha ha."
-- Prof. Saler
That's how we spent Age of Jefferson and Jackson class today: watching a PBS documentary about the Donner Party. Westward expansion, California and cannibalism! Mustn't forget the cannibalism. (A little fact that creeped out my classmates: the member of the party who was most vocal about eating the flesh of his fellow travelers later opened a restaurant in Los Angeles) Pathetically enough, I knew every single location the Donner Party went through because of the Oregon Trail computer game that I used to play all the time. "Oh no, they've reached the salt desert! Frickin' salt desert killed me every time..."
And while I'm quoting professors:
"As a Poli Sci major, I once had to squire Strom Thurmond around my unit when I was in the army. After showing him what I thought he needed to see, I said, 'Is there anything else you'd like to look at, Senator?' And he said to me, 'Son, where are the girlies?' So if someone asks you if I've ever been a pimp, the answer is yes. I introduced him to a nice German girl left over from the Franco-Prussian War and hoped she would give him a nasty disease, but sadly she failed to live up to my expectations."
-- Prof. McWilliams
He can be a real an jerk (I once referred to him as Prof. Dickwad Fucknozzle in an e-mail, and now I can't recall the man's name without thinking, "Dickwad Fu...no, that's not it"), but at least he brings the funny. Well, occasionally.
Back to paper-writing, and hopefully there will be no all-nighter. Eh, who am I kidding; of course there will be an all-nighter. I'll comfort myself with the fact that the semester ends in a week.
