welcome! jeremy freese is a professor in sociology at northwestern university. he finds blogging to be a good diversion from insomnia and a far better use of time than television.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
overheard
"She's like the kid in grade school who would tear her homework just so she could go up to the teacher and ask for a piece of tape." "I hated that kid!"
Eszter: I had thought all of that stuff about Eastern European schools not having adhesives and so just making use of student mucus was all a vicious myth. It's unsettling to hear I was wrong.
Judging from JF's postings a year ago -- when he seemed to think he'd be pretty lonely in Cambridge, I think he was a shy, quiet kid, Anon 10:22. But Cambridge (Harvard?) might be working its magic on him...
I still hate that kid.
ReplyDeleteMy brother was that kid
ReplyDeleteAnd I still hate him too.
ReplyDeleteJeremy, tells us what kind of a kid were you? Quiet? Invisible? Or? Did you have a moment of recognition when you eavesdropped this tidbit?
ReplyDeleteI doubt very much that Jeremy was that kid.
ReplyDeleteOur teachers didn't have tape in school. What a different childhood I had!
ReplyDeleteEszter: I had thought all of that stuff about Eastern European schools not having adhesives and so just making use of student mucus was all a vicious myth. It's unsettling to hear I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteJudging from JF's postings a year ago -- when he seemed to think he'd be pretty lonely in Cambridge, I think he was a shy, quiet kid, Anon 10:22. But Cambridge (Harvard?) might be working its magic on him...
ReplyDeleteI was a pretty spacey kid, who would alternate between pathological shyness and indulgence ebullience. I'm the same sort of adult, now.
ReplyDeleteCambridge is a good fit for such.
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