Make Way for Geek Girl

[ciroccoj]

So, I'm finally studying for Legislature, and... it's weird. I'm actually really interested in this. It's precise and technical and somewhat dry, but fun. It's kind of like English Grammar on speed. Parsing out conjunctions and subjects and objects and right-branching and left-branching sentences and nominalizations and... wheee! For some reason, it's quite challenging, not tedious. It's like I'm being forced to play word games.

Close your eyes and picture a stereotypical parochial school teacher from the early twenties. Let's call her Sister Uvula. There she is, with her starched wimple, gleefully rapping the knuckles of any child who dares to misplace a modifier or dangle a participle. Taking delight in what others dread, unable to understand why they don't share her joy.

I think I was her in my previous life.

Comments

[daf9.livejournal.com]

:) There is nothing so fine as finding something you enjoy that might actually allow you to make a living. I have no doubt you will blow this course out of the water!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

I have no doubt you will blow this course out of the water!

Thanks :) I'm not so sure about blowing it out of the water, but I sure hope I do. Not so much for the mark itself, but because I really want to pursue this further, so I hope I'm actually good at it :)