ur rhetorical skills could use a bit of work, honey
ur rhetorical skills could use a bit of work, honey
When I mention the person who most inspires me as an individual, and who I hold most closely as a model for my ideal future self, the vast majority of people to whom I speak have no clue who I’m talking about. That’s not because I’m a dumb exclusionist who gets off on namedropping for the sake of namedropping, either. It’s because Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, for all his relative obscurity outside literature nerd circles, is the most perfect example I have found for the person I want to be when I grow up.
I’ve only ever met him once, at a poetry reading at a university near my school. I came into the reading with a set of presuppositions of sorts about poets, not flattering ones, either, but within the first three minutes of his reading, he proved every single one of them wrong. I was expecting smugness, heinous pretense, obscurity for the sake of obscurity, but what I got instead was a sense that this was an intelligent man who knew he was intelligent, yet, would still be a pleasure to talk to. He was clearly very knowledgable, very well read, an altogether well spoken individual, but, where in others those traits are easily associated with self-importance, egoism, and pretense, in Mr. Pinsky they were more fitly described as befitting of someone of his stature and accomplishments, and thus, worthy of admiration. All my life I’ve associated being an intellectual as an unfortunate prerequisite for social alienation and an inability to relate to others, but Mr. Pinsky showed me, an impressionable teenager of only 17, that this was not necessarily the case. I could, in theory, pursue the acquisition of knowledge with the vim and vigor of a scholar and still retain the ability to make people want to hold a conversation with me. It wasn’t impossible. It could be done. That poetry reading gave me hope. I don’t aspire to be a poet, but I do aspire to have the same kind of solid sense of self that Robert Pinsky does some day.
— I’m currently gearing up to play with a fairly prestigious bagpipe band in Texas, and, with a little hard work and persistence, I’ll be playing at (and winning) the World Pipe Band Championships in August. I’m making good progress, but it’s hard~ Aah!
— I spent seven weeks in the north of France over the summer with an exchange programme and was awarded the Certificate of Excellence.
—I was promoted to shift leader at my first job a little while ago! My mom told me straight out that she thought I’d be fired after the second day, so I’m pretty happy with myself, if only for proving her wrong~
passcode 4 iu = hey fuck off please
possibilities 4research
factual scenario
case summaries
both briefs
script
2penz
paper
also water
and watch or phone (timepiece)
“if there are no further questions, this concludes my portion of the argument.”
“May it please the court…”
Use “Your honour” to address the judge lol
impressionists a whole bunch of instant camera s help someone help this might be expensive maybe a whole bunch of different shots of the same object over different times of the day/conditions??? impressionists?? like monet’s haystacks >???? some1 help i d k if this is a good idea or not idk
-Art Institute of Chicago (museum, from 10:30-5)
-brown elephant resale shop 4 gays etc (from 11-6)
-Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (from 10-5)
