Life needs change.

 

CONSPIRACY THEORY #20050206

as happy as i was that i have a bank account that accrues interest for me… i don’t have a bank card yet. i need to go grocery shopping tomollo. guess i’ll have to go to the bank and ask them if i can somehow take out money. what an inconvenience! gerblah!

 

as much as i lurves my sticky rice, i found out something bad about it. it takes the teflon off pots. i was initially horrified because there was so much stuck to the bottom of the pot, my precious rice! so i left as much as possible without wasting much and let it soak. and then i realized that the rice was taking off the teflon when i was washing the pot. how scary is that? so i’ve learned the microwave method, all i have to do is get the amount of water right and i have rice! and it’ll never stick to my blue bowl. go woolworth!

 

wow. the floor shakes when he walks. that’s scary. yeah, he IS kinda portly, but still… and he always walks and moves like he’s in such a hurry. i think he’s worse than the slob when he walks back and forth between the kitchen and his room when he’s making his meals.

 

someone tell me if i’m asking for too much here? i’ve noticed that despite the title of my program MA in history of art: aurope, asia, america that i’m really only learning about the uk. i feel like i’ve been somewhat misled. last semster when i was taking the gender and society course much of it centered on the british feminist movement. which i can sorta understand since i am in the uk and then of course the feminist movement was considered ‘universal’ hahahaha! right, like the north american feminist movement was SO similar to the british one. the core course was great because it was theoretical and so it couldn’t necessarily be ___ centric although it could be argued that it was west-centric, but then again so is the canon of art history in which i’m embedded. venice and london well, duh the course name says it all. however, my poco course… we learn about India. well, yeah i know that it’s my prof’s area of specialization and that there are a lot of remants of the past that allude to india… like that eyesore called the brighton pavilion. it looks like a terrible gaudy mix of ‘oriental’ architecture… the kind you’d see at disney’s epcot centre or something. correct me if i’m wrong, but didn’t other nations colonize as well? europe, asia, america… well as much as the uk hates to be considered a part of ‘europe’ and sees the rest of it as the ‘continent’ i guess i AM learning about EUROPE. asia, only in the context of india which of course is closely tied to the uk, and america… NADA! they don’t even have that many books on american art in the 2-book library… so uhhh… yeah. the title is a bit misleading. i’m a little disappointed to be honest. i feel like i’m being cheated out of my thousands of dollars. yes i’m in the uk, yes i will learn things from the british perspective, but i didn’t come here to learn british art history. the freakin’ title was europe, asia, america… i’m debating upon writing about the ainu or the harlem renaissance for my poco course, but well i’d like to learn about ummm… maybe algeria, africa, the caribbean, gee i dunno, pick a country   that was colonized. the scope seems a bit too narrow in my poco course. it seems like a waste that i have to learn about other colonized nations when i technically should be learning about it in my poco course. the title of that is poco’ism and visual culture after all…

 

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