Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Bright lights and academic fights

I was in Las Vegas for the first time last weekend. What a terrible, wonderful place Las Vegas is. I'm dying to tell you all about it. I'm dying to tell you about the free porn, about trying to find a new truck battery at 1 am, about going back to my redneck roots by driving along a dirt road trying not to spill my beer. But I'm not going to, because a) everyone bangs on about Vegas so much that it's just a cliche now, and b) 'What goes in Vegas stays in Vegas' - and you can't argue with the wisdom of a city that gives out yard-long margueritas, can you?

Instead, I'm going to whine about one of the new PhD students, a cultural geographer, who complained to me about how much work she has. I haven't been home in two days (thank christ my office has a sofa), and yet this bint who's idea of a PhD is a couple of years reading in the library and then drafting some theory that nobody can prove or disprove has the temerity to complain about her workload. Far be it from me to denigrate someone else's research, but what kind of a thesis is Feminist Geographies of Gender and Sexuality? I ask you.

Normally, I would have told her to fold her thesis until it's all sharp corners and stick it up her 'gender specific void', but there's still an outside chance that she might sleep with me so I just made a sympathetic but noncommital comment.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I take it you haven't showed her your blog page...
Well you know what I say "fuck her"

1:45 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think fastrousers may be an oxymoron, what are you waiting for?

2:29 pm  
Blogger Captain Fastrousers said...

Technically anonymous, even if the velocity of my trousers were in question (and I'm not saying it is), since speed is not per se associated with 'trousers', Fastrousers cannot be an oxymoron.

'Misnomer' is the word that you're incompetently groping for.

4:37 pm  

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