Freigeistig
via planettampon.tumblr. Omg, Cruella De Vil
One thing about where I work, is that so many smart people are milling about waiting for you to pounce on their ideas and dissect their brains.
This is not as parasitic as it sounds.
“Freigeistig”, for example, I learned from reading someone’s dissertation. German for “free-thinking” and “spiritual”, he relates it to several -isms of Modernism: Monism… humanism… secularism… anti-clericalism… great stuff, really awesome. I have bouts of intense wiki-searches in order to understand the words coming out of their mouths…
Today has been a wonderful day. Although this “wonderful day” precedes a most likely to be difficult weekend, it’s done me great good.
For example, I feel like writing the Federal Pell Grant an intense and inappropriate love letter to express my undying appreciation. But… I’ll restrain myself. *THIS* time.
I’m sure the beauty queen feels the same way as I do today. She seems so sure of herself, confident, classy, enjoying life’s little things like pushpins, tape, and photocopy machines. I guess that’s more like office-work’s little things.
via planettampon.tumblr
Ew.
<3 Gracieee
Tags: beauty, close, federal, glenn, grant, love, pell, queen, thursday
October 30th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Kinda curious where you work that gives you these mental challenges. My co-workers are… well, very much the opposite. I feel like I’m stagnating and rotting slowly being surrounded by those with no appreciation for deep thought, or emoticons. -_-”
November 1st, 2009 at 11:28 am
I work on campus/at the school I go to. It’s funded by a generous endowment through the National Endowment for the Humanities, and we also get matching funds/raising. We house a national feminist philosophy magazine, and manage funds for several fellowships/projects… but I’m really just the student assistant