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I thought at first it was just the fake classes I'm taking ("Ethnomathematics?!?"), but I think it's because I'm going to a CC in a town with a University; sometimes it feels like an alternative high school. See, last week for my religion & society class we gave presentations on philosophers, and one girl mentioned "Plah-to." I shit you not. She said it like 5 times. Rhymes with fatto. In my Ethnomath class we had to do presentations discussing the mathematical & logical bases of games. TWO groups did drinking games ("kings" & "hockey"). One guy did Legend of Zelda, for Chrissake. I was going to do pen & paper rpgs, but I don't feel confident that it would hold the attention of the back row, who, yes, heckle every presentation. "Your mother plays dominoes - Hiyo!" Did your mother teach you to pop your collar, douchebag? Instead I'm doing Fluxx. Well, at least my art class is allright, despite the lady with the head injury who makes the teacher (Rob) repeat e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.
I'm making it sound like I don't enjoy it there, but really I do! Every day something makes me laugh hysterically, and if you can't get that out of life then you're asking too much. It's all a big crap-shoot, anyhoo. I was worried for a little while about my Ethnomath midterm, but it turned out okay - out of a possible 75 points, I got 80.
music: Devotchka, How It Ends (another greatest album of all time)
I'm making it sound like I don't enjoy it there, but really I do! Every day something makes me laugh hysterically, and if you can't get that out of life then you're asking too much. It's all a big crap-shoot, anyhoo. I was worried for a little while about my Ethnomath midterm, but it turned out okay - out of a possible 75 points, I got 80.
music: Devotchka, How It Ends (another greatest album of all time)
posted by josh p at 12:06 PM
3 Comments:
You've probably already done your presentation, but my advice to you is to add in a totalitarian refenence (ala "1984") in regards to Fluxx. At least, that was one of the aspects that always endeared me to the game; whenever a new rule is implmented all players have to abide by it and their actions reflect that they have always abided by it (for instance, one player puts down a "each player only has 3 cards in hand" rule card and as a result all players quickly discard all cards except three; any other action results in disqualification (i.e. execution). Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, you know?)
Of course, this may be too abstract for you audience. However, your choice of subject is commendable. Or condemnable. I get those mixed up so often. It's one or the other. Choose whichever one makes you feel better.
-Duncan
Duncan, that was an awesome response to the post. heheh. Earning more than is possible on a test is always a good thing...
Great comment, I remember when we first started playing Fluxx and you were so fasinated with the 1984 aspects of it - in fact I wracked my brain before my presentation to remember how you put it, but couldn't remember. As it turns out I decided to present just the basic information on the rules, and have some people come up to play a hand. I'm pretty confident your perspective would have been totally lost on the class, which hs collective ADD as it is. After the break in the middle of the class, less than half the people usually stay. It's depressing.
On the other hand, in my religion class we're doing another presentation that reminds me of you, relating to mysticism. The prof came aound giving people Thomas Merton, Native American mysticism, Sufism, and I got... Zen Buddhism. Yay, I guess, I won't have to do any research, and the class will likely be well informed. Maybe I can tie in Platto. ;-)
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