...the sadists at Canada Student Loans, who refuse to create a website with links that are actually active, forcing poor bastards who just want to do the right thing and play by their rules and fill out all the nice forms they want you to fill out in TRIPLICATE on absolutely the right kind of paper with the right kind of mental state (honoured and thankful that the peons in Ottawa making $155,000/ year condescended to grant you, a worthless slave to pop culture, a child of generation "whine", an interest-free loan during your studies - the fact that they raised tuition over 200% in the past 12 years notwithstanding - you are sucking at the government tit, and how dare you complain about it, there are starving children in Iraq, don't ya know, so get perspective already, besides, aren't you in (snicker)English?) to do twenty minutes of searching on their goddamned site to find a phone number or email address that'll actually connect you to a real person who'll tell you what you should actually do in ENGLISH, and not in some kind of nondescript, circular legalese which makes whatever language Chrétien spoke seem positively coherent, AND then, hire the most unpleasant people in the country to answer the phone, people for whom "hello" appears to be too much effort, and who believe that speaking slower than 1700 words per minute an absolute deviancy from standard operating procedure and who take it personally when you can't understand and ask them to repeat themselves and even (gasp!) explain one or eleven of the seemingly identical acronyms that spew forth from their racing maws (once, of course, you explain what exactly an acronym is) , which they do with a contempt so thick that it could be bottled and sold by Calvin Klein, fronted by a scornful looking male model wearing little more than a scowl and a CUPE membership card.
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February 2006
I read: electronic
- accidentals and substantives
- Ancarett's Abode
- And She Knits Too!
- bad christian
- bitch PhD
- canadian cynic
- chez miscarriage
- culture cat
- early modern notes
- ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
- et al.
- feministe
- feministing
- Jelly-fish Consciousness
- jill/txt
- loving people is hard
- mr kong's parlour
- ms musings
- new kid on the hallway
- pandagon
- peter's cross station
- Philobiblon
- Pinko Feminist Hellcat
- playing school, irreverently
- scribbling woman
- Shakespeare's Sister
- something big and glassy
- the chronicles of dr crazy
- this woman's work
- wonkette
- world o'crap
I read: codex
- Hugh Maclean: Ben Jonson and the cavalier poets;: Authoritative texts, criticism (A Norton critical edition)
My love for the Norton Critical Edition knows no bounds of decorum, what with the footnotes handily dangling at the bottom of the page, the effective but not-excessive use of white space and the pages and pages of charming formalist criticism handily excerpted for one's edifying pleasure, and this fine specimen is not only crammed with the verses of Carew and Herrick and Shirley and Waller and Suckling, but the Benniest of Bens himself. Aaaaaah. Margaret Atwood: Strange Things : The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
Right to the frosty tips of my Maritime 'burg nestles the omnipresent appreciation of all things Canadian - lest not forget, 'natch, that this is Lower Canada, first founded, settled by those who settled and therefore most appropriate dwelling-place for some serious CanLitticism on a chilly eve - a hunger best feasted with the reigning Empress of post-Dominion Culture, here her own splendid Wendigo-fed self most engaging with a bemused discussion of the particular neuroses provoked by our frozen mythoscape that are so lovingly delineated by myriad earnest PhD dissertations from sea to sea to sea.Candace Savage: Crows : Encounters with the Wise Guys
Seduced by the caw of the wild that blankets the UNB campus with a murderous cacophany of harbingers of death at the same time every fall, I put this on my Chrismas list hoping for some new insight into these amazing creatures that mimic human speech and modified tool use - instead, I found surprizingly mediocre musings on evolutionary biology from an unqualified, underresearching hack writer made bearable only by a bevy of lovely photographs and images of our witty black-feathered bretheren.
You know what? Being a CUPE cardholder myself... I personally blame the card. Did you know the card actually is covered in sharp little barbs to make you more surly? It also oozes incompetance (it leaves a stinky oily residue on everything it touches).
Ah, the joys of public servitude.
;p
Posted by: Neurotic Lymbo | October 15, 2004 at 15:58