a lot to say... about the last week, about wierdisms, about things, about classes, about this crazy country, and so forth... but not enough time. i will have to come back and be specific, but in the meantime, today i nearly got into a fistfight about syntax and grammar (and implied, yet obvious, power structures and establishment of em/power/ment relations between various peoples).

(not really a fistfight, but it was tense and i noticed people in class--because, yes, it was in class--were looking somewhat nervous.)

i told this dude that what he said was condescending (when he said that the text assumed that people were "smart" enough to [pick up on the identical imaginary context that the author intended us to imagine, but that really wasn't there]), but it was also kind of embaressingly fun to be out-n-out whatever-i-thought.

that makes two times i have used that term "condescending" in the past month. but really, i sometimes wonder if people believe that maturation is simply learning how to say shitty things behind the rhetoric of diplomacy.

anyhow, i've been feeling like a maverick, like chewing up people's innards, but only if they have politeness or naivete in place of some semblence of actual. it's probably not fair, but i'm just a tad bit impatient and/or prone to fall for the troll. oh well, and now i'm off to sleep for a few seconds. but i'll write more later.