academia

I almost left out the bit where Masha scoffed at my doubts of academia. She always had a "why are you wasting yourself and your giant brain by dicking around" attitude. To hear her explain me, I am such an underachiever and I had privilege and honor in the palm of my hand by being in the crap-ass Honors program at U.texas. When in fact no one gives a rats ass about one's honors humanities thingies and I basically flunked out of grad school...! But anyways I well recall her givng me long passionate speeches about how if I did not use my brain for science, and I don't mean by donating it for dissection, then I was doing a disservice to humanity and was wasting my life. 8-P

"She is brilliant and she could be at any university and could be... blah blah blah" Masha declaims to Nate.

"You don't understand. I'm not just a slut slut. I'm an intellectual slut. I don't have that much focus. I am smart and have great ideas but I'm not going to dedicate myself to my own academic career. I don't have YOUR focus. I like to have 10 different projects going. I'm not aiming to do what you are doing."

She considered that and I think the point was taken... But she still thinks it's a crime that I don't have a phd. hmmph. For someone who used to diss authority and stand up and tear pages out of Artaud with me in class and burn them, she is getting very establishment-respecting!

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[Jo]

HelLO! You are not so different in your tentacle-like polyintellectualism from all other PhDs. Everywhere. Well, maybe humanities PhDs, anyway. They created research institutions just for you and your ilk. For you!