Monday, November 17, 2008
Gave the Holocaust lecture in my modern German history class today. Broke my heart a little. The powers that be want me to teach a whole course on the Holocaust in the fall and, well, its going to be tough. I told one of my colleagues that I'm going to need a hug every once in a while just to keep my morale up. I had to get a new liner for my shower curtain today (because my brother is arriving on Friday! And my current liner is grody with mold!) and, in an effort to cheer myself up, also bought a new curtain with a giant photograph of penguins. And not those aloof - frigid? - celebrities of the species, the Emperors. No, no, these are the happy-go-lucky Adelie penguins. Cheerful little, Cuban-accented (according to the film Happy Feet), sidekicks of the Antarctic. Nothing like a shiny vinyl impulse buy to make me feel a little better about genocide.
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Man I feel like a killjoy.
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/37388
You need one of these instead. Doesn't require a liner, and you can throw it in the wash when the mildew starts poking its head around. And they have several colors, but sadly no pengweens.
http://tinyurl.com/thecurtainthatwontkillalix
I also have to admit that my understanding of modern German history is limited to the Holocaust. What fills up the other semester-minus-one lectures?
Seriously? You can't think of anything else in modern German history other then the Holocaust? The Potsdam conference, the front lines of the cold war, the building of the Berlin wall, the USSR-run concentration camps, the coming down of the Berlin wall, and, why not, the building of an all-glass car factory have all been too trivial for you to have heard about them? Also, doesn't "modern Germany" technically refer to the country after WWII, thus making the Holocaust not part of that time period?
Dude, Yuriy, simmer down. My modern Germany course is fifteen weeks long. This was one lecture devoted to the Holocaust. We started with Frederick the Great. We're ending with the EU. Tomorrow we talk about die Berliner Mauer.
Or wait, are you belittling Sarah? Don't do that. Her little brother is almost as intimidating as mine.
Can you come next week and give a guest lecture about the BMW factory? I'll take you to Oby's afterwards for a catfish po'boy.
Yes, yes I can.
And as far as intimidating little brothers go, my big sister will protect me!
Well, and I was kidding. Mostly lamenting my sad lack of historical knowledge. And now it seems I must lament my not knowing that modern starts in 1700. I still have no idea what you've been teaching for the past 2 months, but am no longer confused by how 2/3 of the way through a course you are only up to the 1930s.
The baby is getting her first cold. How sad is that?
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