Tuesday, February 21, 2006

truth equals the internet quiz

Your Scholastic Strength Is Deep Thinking

You aren't afraid to delve head first into a difficult subject, with mastery as your goal.
You are talented at adapting, motivating others, managing resources, and analyzing risk.

You should major in:

Philosophy
Music
Theology
Art
History
Foreign language
What Should You Major In?

Well, well, well, looky here. Now see, i found this little quiz on my friend alex's blog and i thought to myself, well, alli, why don't you take this little quiz and just see what it reveals. and then i thought to myself, and of course, you don't have to post it if it says something such as "Commerce, Math, Biology, or Computer Science." But, lo and behold, its says PHILOSOPHY. score: Alli, 1, Dad 0. Oh, i love the internet quiz. five questions and the answers to the riddles of life. and, i, for one, believe pretty much everything that i read on the internet, so i am pretty sure this is as close to truth as it had been carved in stone and handed down to one of god's most trusted disciples (in this case, the Internet being god, and the quiz being the rock, and me being the disciple? i am not so sure this analogy works).

on a brighter reading week note, i have talked myself out of heading over to the thomas fisher rare book libary. we have an assignment due on monday that involves evaluating a collection of author's papers, or publisher's papers, and discussing how the collection can contribute to a study of the time period, the genre, even, more specifically, of the author and their influences. Basically, how these archives can contribute to the study of book history, in some way, shape, or form. the reason i am so hesitant is, quite simply, personal shame. this summer i interviewed for a position there. what i would have done was catelog incoming donations/gifts to the library and check them against what already existed in the collection to determine if the new addition is of higher quality. well, what they handed us (and by us i mean the other people who interviewed, i am assuming) a book and told us to write about it. well, what i know about rare book cateloguing now, though it is not much, is significantly more than what i knew in august. it is pleasantly enough to be horribly terribly embarrassed by what i wrote. you know, leather binding, crest on inside cover, etc. when really, what they would have been looking for was a detailed whether it was a quarto or octavo (or folio or some other size), the number of leaves, the watermark, the pagination, etc. etc. when collected correctly this information provides an almost codelike description of the contents. very detailed, very specific, and meaningless to the lay person. which is what i was. which is what i am. i am tempted to send them an email to apologize. however, on the off chance that they have forgotten, or that perhaps i was not included in the weekly "let's laugh at students" newsletter, i have no desire to bring them back to that morning. besides, i plan on applying again this summer. i mean, hey, new year, new chance, right? i will have to venture to the library tomorrow, but, as always, working tomorrow seems so much more appealing to working today.

besides, i am reading a wonderful book called Deafening. grania, a deaf woman, and jim, a hearing man, are newly married when he ships off to fight in the Great War. their story is one of little sound, but much love, and the tale, from the beginning has been tinged with sadness. so much sadness that i almost fear to keep reading, as if, by only starting the book, i can meet these people while also avoiding whatever sad fate is going to befall them. okay, fine, i read the last page, so i know that jim comes home, but i do not know about her family, and somehow, having happiness in her marriage, though wonderful, becomes even more sad when i know that her family cannot possibly survive intact. so i keep reading. i'll let you know how it goes. i am such a sucker for war books that even though i "joke" about not reading to the end, there is no real way that i would stop. i am not sure where this infatuation comes from, but if there is a war in the book, i will read it. perhaps it is because human behaviour in war is always unexplainable and unpredictable. does that make it interesting? yes. but it also makes it heartbreaking. and inspiring. and it makes me feel incredibly, incredibly thankful to those who came before.

2 comments:

Sofie Rycken said...

I got the exact same one! Foreign language, doing and done. Music, art and history, done and doing. Philosophy and Theology I took 101 courses in. Funny how this makes me feel so good. Do they have any of these 5 answer fixes for life in general?

Ian said...

Apparently I'm innovating... Which, as I've noted on my blog is totally wrong. I especially like the photography bit because I have a truly terrible eye! I do like Economics though...