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So, it's official: I will be taking just one class this semester. Combined with six hours of Dissertation, this gives me a full load.
Actually, the fact that the class is Biometry (= biostatistics) makes it a full load, for me. Statistics and I BEAR NO LOVE for one another. However, I think the world of the Biometry professor, and so perhaps that will make it better.
Earlier today, I wrote a bitchy post about published authors using incomplete sentences for effect. It's a device I feel is overused (read: twice a paragraph), and often done poorly at inappropriate moments, and therefore often constitutes bad grammar instead of style of any sort. (Read: IT MAKES ME FROTH.) Then I felt guilty and deleted it, because I named names, and it seemed a bit rude to express my opinion in a hostile manner when I am not a perfect grammarian myself... ... particularly not in my livejournal posts, where I frequently bend, staple, mutilate, and otherwise abuse grammar for the just and noble cause of 1) getting my point across in an entertaining manner; or 2) laziness.
Upon reflection, however, I decided that the author in question can cry all the way to the bank, because he is PAID to write these things, whereas I am not paid for my writing. Therefore I have fewer qualms about expressing my RAGING DISLIKE ofAlan Dean Foster's the unnamed author's writing style.
But he writes TransFormers books, so - points there, Al.
Actually, the fact that the class is Biometry (= biostatistics) makes it a full load, for me. Statistics and I BEAR NO LOVE for one another. However, I think the world of the Biometry professor, and so perhaps that will make it better.
Earlier today, I wrote a bitchy post about published authors using incomplete sentences for effect. It's a device I feel is overused (read: twice a paragraph), and often done poorly at inappropriate moments, and therefore often constitutes bad grammar instead of style of any sort. (Read: IT MAKES ME FROTH.) Then I felt guilty and deleted it, because I named names, and it seemed a bit rude to express my opinion in a hostile manner when I am not a perfect grammarian myself... ... particularly not in my livejournal posts, where I frequently bend, staple, mutilate, and otherwise abuse grammar for the just and noble cause of 1) getting my point across in an entertaining manner; or 2) laziness.
Upon reflection, however, I decided that the author in question can cry all the way to the bank, because he is PAID to write these things, whereas I am not paid for my writing. Therefore I have fewer qualms about expressing my RAGING DISLIKE of
But he writes TransFormers books, so - points there, Al.
