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Right. I've had this discussion with two different people in the past three days, so let me just clarify things here. If I haven't seen any of you in the past two weeks, it's nothing personal. It's end of semester, I'm swamped with essays and reading, I still have work (which requires time enough as it is), and I like to sleep a decent amount. So. Really. I'll make an effort to see people as soon as these essays and exams are done. Until then, the next person who demands an explanation as to how I've been spending my time and why I haven't seen them is going to be bludgeoned to death with a textbook.

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If I had the time to write it, there would be a 3-page rant about my WMST 301 teacher here. Since I don't HAVE any such time, let me just say that she has a gift of presenting situations and arguments that basically construct a scene into a trap in which, if you're white, you're an oppressor of all people of color everywhere, and to say anything to contradict that is basically to fall into any of the traps she's set through her use of other theories and articles. In other words: I'm being told that anything I do that even approaches a woman of color is basically to calm my own guilt over the historic oppression of women of color, and that there's nothing I can do about that. Frankly, at this point? Bite me. Bite me hard. Really. ... I can't even begin to articulate all the ways in which I disagree with her. But, basically? At this point? If she says something, I'm pretty well guaranteed to be against it.

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I would like to point out that, in the past 48 hours, I have written 12 396 words of essays. And that, on re-reading, it's mostly reasonable. I rock. I SO rock.

... now, I've got to add another 2000-ish to finish this essay, and do some reading for that exam that's tomorrow, but at least I'm getting the vague impression that I'm able to peek over the mountain of work that's got to be done for the next two weeks...