thread for sarahel

all this talk of brown and no semiotics zings yet?

^^ that was my major btw - though they'd changed the name by the time I graduated.

i believe its called "symbology"

Modern Culture and Media, though you could major in Art-Semiotics, which I wasn't cool enough to do, because I was intimidated by having to take a studio art class and art history, because there were a lot of other students that had art history classes in high school, and I went to crappy public school that didn't.

Joining the esteemed company of Jon Spencer and Ira Glass.

and Todd Haynes!!!

the main dude in that band that did that gym equipment video that everyone was so keen on a few years back was in a class with me ... he was kinda arrogant and douchey. But then again, he was 19 or 20, so I don't want to make permanent judgments about the guy.

My first roommate in Chicago, who I found through the classifieds, was in a sign-language class with Laura Linney at Brown in the early 80s, said she was very sweet [/suzy]

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, March 6, 2009 2:38 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I was in a screenwriting class with one of those gawkermedia guys, and his screenplay idea was pretty lame, but he seemed like a decent guy.

wait, never mind, I'm confusing him with someone else. I think he was in that class, but I don't remember what his screenplay was about.

Tracer Hand also went to Brown and majored in MCM, I think. /jaymc

Oh, you're right. (Am looking at his CV presently.)

when did he graduate?

i think you just out you'd yourself
xpost

xp '96. His name's not really Tracer Hand, though.

xp - that was the year I graduated.

(E-mailed you, sarahel.)

I got your message -- dude lived across the hall from me freshman year.

same floor as Louis Malle's daughter and a recent MacArthur genius.

lol i stopped getting the alumni mag for some unknown, merciful reason.

I like the acrostics. I get really bummed when they don't have acrostics, and I've read about all the overachievers, and there isn't an acrostic to make me feel marginally better about myself.

Your alumni mag has acrostics??

yeah ... most of the time. I don't think there was one in the financial-crisis-predicting-attractive-blond-woman issue.

hahahahahaha TINY TINY WORLD

I love when bizarre stuff like that happens (something similar involving friends of friends came up at a party on Friday in SF).

Sarahel I avoid the alumni magazine conundrum by vaguely noting the arrival of each new UCLA issue and then instantly recycling it.

I end up reading the thing, because some of the articles are interesting, and also to see if anyone I disliked has died.

lol

probably by the time they die, I'll have forgotten I disliked them and only have a vague recollection of who they were. I'm just interested in the obituary euphemisms and omissions. I almost sent in a fake obituary for myself at one point.

Kill off your old identity and create a new one.

sarahel, is it Sarah El or Sara Hel?

u guys think u got it bad, my alumni mag had THE PRESIDENT on the cover

The University president?

The president of the Mormon Church?

nice try flabbot

nice fail ;_;

the BYU alumni magazine is less inadequancy-inducing but more boring.

idk bet theres a still a few ppl feelin envious of mitt romeny

but it's not a constant barrage of "this person saved the world," "this person is going to save the world," "this person could have saved the world if only other people had listened to them," etc.

welllll next issues cover:

http://www.i4m.com/think/jpeg/angel-moroni.jpg

not meaning this with any ill feeling at all, but speaking as someone often guilty of it myself, especially in bygone days, i feel you could do with a little more posting restraint...for your own good, of course...sorry if this sounds a bit harsh :)

Is it time for the backlash already? Time flies.

LJ go f yrself...sorry if this sounds a bit harsh :)

bad fuckin form Louis. if you are really a concerned citizen, why not PM someone instead of making it public?

i imagine this was one of those louiss-subconscious-desire-for-punishment-manifests-itself-oddly things

louis do you really think you are removed enough from past indiscretions to call out others for them? esp. since i'm pretty sure no one else was thinking this?

look a) people never pm'd ME when i was posting uncontrollably to every 'event' thread on ilx, they abused me pretty directly and b) miss el is overdoing it imo with the whole 'gotta have the final word' thing...the advice is friendly and constructive, not bitchy and antagonistic

i'm not naming others

louis for your own good i would advise you to stop

this is getting weird.

...

Can I ask that maybe this once we DON'T do this?

oh but dan its friday and i dont want to do any work

i don't want to back-seat mod but a nice, calming 3-dayer for LJ would staunch the flow right here.