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[mari4212]

Whoot!

Four finals down, and one to go, and then I will be done with this semester. Frankly, I'm rather glad, as this school year has just been exhausting, mentally and physically.

Things of achievement:
I'm done with Genetics. And Latin, but I'll actually kind of miss Latin, whereas I won't Genetics.
I've written twenty-five pages worth of religion papers in the past week and a half. And also managed to use the word God four times in a two-line sentence at least once. English really needs to just come up with a gender-neutral pronoun that doesn't imply lack of personhood.
I have also, if it was at all possible, turned into more of the my group's school mommy than I was before.

Things I need to post on later, when sentience and sapience have returned to me:
1. Tenn-Renn experience.
2. Quidditch Club and the leaving ceremony they held for us graduating seniors.
3. Thinky-thoughts about experiences of sexism, as both havocthecat and medie keep me turning over things in my head about my experiences as it relates to what other people experience, but always when I have no spare brainpower to talk coherently about the subject.

Comments

[havocthecat]

I'd be curious to hear about your thinky-thoughts when you get in the right brainspace to talk about them.

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

Mostly I have a feeling it'll be things along the lines of not realizing how lucky I was to have not experienced the sexism I've heard both of you mentioning occurring on a regular basis, combined with thoughts about what forms of sexism I have seen and experienced.

Otherwise known as: huh, I can't recall anyone ever staring at my chest instead of my eyes to an extent that I notice it/why I don't mind that I don't seem to register as an available female to most men.

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

Erm, and I just realized that I'd mistyped your username in my original post, which is proof that my prophets paper swallowed my brain. Sorry.

[ljmckay.livejournal.com]

English really needs to just come up with a gender-neutral pronoun that doesn't imply lack of personhood.

You could always go the Madeline L'Engle route and use El. ;)

Glad you can see the finish line from here! :D

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

*grins* You know, you're the only person aside from myself I've ever seen make that reference?

I do tend to use El a lot in my less formal writing, but for a final paper, it's best to use normal protocol. Which meant a lot of repetitive usage of the word God and The Divine insert metaphor here.

*sighs* Fifteen and a bit pages, and I only wish I'd been able to expand it more and cut out one section so I could have spent more time talking about all of the rest of it. Yeah, I so should have figured out the whole religion major thing earlier, rather than doing pre-PT.

[hrroyalgeekness.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Glad it's almost over for you.

You are so our mom when we're here and we're all going to miss you next year.

[heylittleriver.livejournal.com]

I've written twenty-five pages worth of religion papers in the past week and a half.

Wow. Go you! That's impressive.


I'm looking forward to hearing about 1, 2 and 3. :D

[petitecrivan.livejournal.com]

:D Yay almost done with finals! *hugs Margaret!Mommy tight and doesn't want to let go* I realized the other day that I didn't actually say bye to you when I left, and that made me sad. :( So that means you have to come around next year at some point and see everyone, right? :P

[xdreamsofdramax.livejournal.com]

I totally agree that English needs a gender neutral pronoun that doesn't take away personhood. Even if you totally exclude any need for such a thing because of divine beings that you don't want to make male or female, there is a need because people don't know what to call babies before they are born if they don't know the sex. It takes away their personhood, but you can't call the baby he or she because you don't know the sex, so the baby is referred to as the baby all the time.