What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

I'm more amused that they have his eye and hair color wrong.

Not sure if the woman even made eye contact with me.

"Lemme see YOUR ID!"- Ice Cube

[Forlorn Drifter]

everyone else in the class is just as lost as me as far as how we are doing and understanding the subject. We're finding that we don't exactly know for sure what she wants us to get out of it all, and there's been more than one case where we have misunderstood her or she has misunderstood us. Part of that is the slight language barrier coming from the professor dropping into Italian at times, or not knowing how to translate an idea, or on our end, using phrases or ideas that don't translate well into the Italian equivalent and cause her to think we said something different.

Apologies in advance for making light, but this sounds exactly like me trying to watch Italian cinema, so you're already magnitudes ahead of this luddite. You're a smart dude, so I'm sure you're doing better than you're giving your self credit for. Personal anecdote time, when I was in college I often found it to be the case that my level of success was not related to whether I inherently knew more (I didn't) or was smarter (I wasn't) than the rest of the class, but rather was directly related to whether I was willing to work harder than them. In this regard, your agricultural background puts you leagues ahead of a lot of these kids who have never had to get their hands dirty, much less work from sun up to sundown.

Well, we have subtitles, it isn't like I learned Italian for this. I probably wouldn't worry so much if the class wasn't based on a total of five grades, one of which is a ten page paper comparing "early Italian" to "modern Italian" cinema, where we aren't allowed to compare to the same director. I know I'll understand A Fistfull of Dollars the best, but I'm not sure how I'd compare that to something like La Venturra or La Dolce Vita. If I had the chance to work with High Plains Drifter, it might be a bit better with the whole use of color angle compared to Red Desert.

But, amount of studying does not equal your grade. I can only do so much studying, and it won't help if I don't have any clue on how the angle of a shot shows the relationship between the characters in the frame and blahde blahde blah.

[noiseredux]

I'm more amused that they have his eye and hair color wrong.

I think it's weird that Luke's license says his name is "Mrs. Chanandler Bong."

[Ack]

Forlorn, what do they mean by "early Italian cinema" versus "modern"? What is the rough time period? Are you allowed to compare subject matter of films, technique, approaches toward international work, or what?

I really just want you to write about Lucio Fulci...

[TSTR]

mmm eye violence

[BogusMeatFactory]

...how does your license have you at 5'7"? Maybe NC is a 20 year license state?

In MN you have to renew license every 4 years and they measure you (against measurement indicator on wall). You guesstimate your weight, but they do have a scale if you can't ballpark yourself accurately.

I'm glad the officer was gentle.

What!? They have never asked me anything or measure anything when I renew my license. Hell, when they do the little eye test, I have an extremely dominant left eye and she tells me to look into the eyepieces and read the display and I am like, "It's blank. There are no letters," because the letters were displayed for the right eye only. She shrugged and just moved on. I would think that would be a red flag right?

[Luke]

I think it's weird that Luke's license says his name is "Mrs. Chanandler Bong."

Nah, that's the name on my TV Guide.

Is the TV Guide still printed? I suddenly feel old.

What!? They have never asked me anything or measure anything...

At the DMV in MN they measure everything. EVERYTHING. And they don't just ask if you are a donor, they need your blood type and a sample of your blood, hair, and if male, sperm.

When I was in high school it was rumored that you could get a legitimate fake ID with a bogus birth certificate and a bible. Know it worked for at least one of my friends.

[Erik_Twice]

I'm not in a good mood today, I'm sleepy and tired. I totally zoned out in class and didn't do anything useful. Even worse, I have French classes now and I haven't studied for them. I feel judged in them because I have a very low level so I'm temped to sleep and not go today but I must.

[Luke]

I'm not in a good mood today, I'm sleepy and tired.

No you aren't.
Because you are a MAN!

[TSTR]

no it's probably the titties