Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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Nah man, the guys in my field are just clowns that ignore shit loads of factors that produce completely different conclusions to the ones they have drawn, I should not sit down and get angry and correct the work of the people who should be teaching me. It worries me that this is meant to be teaching me and my peers.
 

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Kate

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Feb 7, 2011
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When you've spent some 25 years of your life educating yourself on the promise of great opportunity in academia only to find that you have to struggle to put up with a lot of b.s. to be paid shit, it makes you cynical. It also shifts your enjoyment of life to the most petty, meaningless values. Because that's all you've got to show for it.
It all depends on what you are hoping to get out of it, and what you are realistically expecting to get out of it. I am not expecting to ever discover anything, or to be important in any whatsoever, I just want to read books and write about them.

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Ford Prefect

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May 28, 2009
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Not really, as I don't identify with either of them, having not spent the majority of my formative life in either country. It's strange.
This is a not flirty 'same here', i hold no psychological affiliation to the UK, the place drives me insane...hense always looking for a way out lol.

I'd be proud to be canadian if i were you....you gave the world neil young, the band etc.

but i'd be ashamed of joni mitchel.
 

Kate

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Feb 7, 2011
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This is a not flirty 'same here', i hold no psychological affiliation to the UK, the place drives me insane...hense always looking for a way out lol.

I'd be proud to be canadian if i were you....you gave the world neil young, the band etc.

but i'd be ashamed of joni mitchel.
Why would that be flirty?

I know what you mean; I try to dissociate myself as much as possible from the States, but despite having Canadian citizenship I don't feel that I have any right to call myself Canadian as I've only lived here for two years. I know virtually nothing about the culture except the few glimpses I've had from recent experience, and so I cannot share in the "collective past" that others can. I am never ashamed to admit it, I just don't feel right doing so.

It's a strange hodgepodge existence, and I normally just let people assume I'm English because of my accent as it saves time.
 

KatieDiFran

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Sep 25, 2009
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Hey! if anyone who knows french and italian can help me out
that would be sick
... im struggling to translate this (into french)

... come una rosa seccatasi sullo stelo ...
it's that word that is causing problems.. anyone who how you would say this in french?
 

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