History ROCKS.

I had just one class today--the first one of history, with Dr. Kangas. And MAN was it cool--I took notes. On the first day, I took notes:

History is representationally true fiction. "The past" and "history" are not the same; we are studying "history".
"The past is what occured; history is what we write about what occured. ...History, by its very nature, is always being rewritten. All historical writing is revisionism." -Dr. K

We're not using dates, timelines, wars, politics--this is cultural historical anthropology of our own culture. And Dr. Kengas is SO COOL. I am PSYCHED. Haha, brilliance!


...and now I have a dentist appointment.

(Plus, Jane Austen icon! Am I the only one who finds this funny? I laughed out loud when I read this line. Maybe I'm just weird.)

Bard Meme

When you see this in a friend's journal, quote Shakespeare!

In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart! If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.

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That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,
And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;
That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief,
A loss in love that touches me more nearly.


(So you get two for one. Good deal.)


Hey, all you people: I have a random CONTEST for you!
I want to make a new journal just for my art and writing posts, so I can keep them separate and organized within themselves (hopefully that will actually work out that way; it remains to be seen if that's even possible). Thing is, I want a nifty user name for it, and at the moment I'm not thinking of anything; so I'm going to turn it over to you all. Something out of Shakespeare, or Alice in Wonderland, or Neverwhere or something like that. Or something writerly in general.
Suggest things all you like, and the person who gives me the one I end up using (unless for some reason I suddenly think of something myself) gets to request something artsy from me (a drawing, I mean; I can try to write something for you, but that's less of a guarantee).

(I love this, shoving all the creativity off on you people. I'm so horrible.)