An overeducated peasant's view of Harry and Sally

I spent 5 hours today editing someone's footnotes about Latvian farming communities and one of their sources was Jonathan Frazen's The Corrections.  Don't know what THAT'S all about, but I made $50 doing it and I'm much more nearsighted than I was when I began. 

No, not really.  I'm okay.  I'm just tired of staring at a computer screen but I still have to do the footnotes tomorrow, which is good because I really need the money.  Then Monday I have to start my research for the trade law class.  Let's not even THINK about that.

Anyway, after the editing job Gil and I watched When Harry met Sally which was cute and funny and Woody Allenesque (the poster to the side, by the way, is in German, click on it to make it bigger) but also it was very... um, what do you call it when you say one gender is this and the other is the opposite?  The Women are from Mars thing?  Yeah, so it seemed very that to me [did you get that little joke there?  Click the link, you dope!] 

[ahem]  Anyway, all that is fine, really, I have no problem with it.  I think.  I'm just not like that.  I'm more like the guy sometimes.  And I guess that's the problem.  It's that when we have these very strict ideas about how men and women are, regardless of why [I say, deftly sidestepping the biological/cultural debate going on over at Hugo's], regardless of why they are different, I mean, just expecting them to be so different not because they're different people but because they're male and female I don't know, y'all.  That just seems ... silly.

Well, that's about all I have to say about that.  I'm listening variously to polka music and The Adventures of Guy Noir and it occurs to me that I besides Lucky White Girl, I could call myself an overeducated peasant.  And a failed writer.  How about a lucky overeducated failed peasant writer?  hmmmm..... overeducated peasant.  I like that. 

[TRIVIA:  There are actually four movies referenced in this post.  Can you find them all?] 

P.S. If they've made a movie of the Corrections, that doesn't count!

Comments

[barb]

oops, now there's only three, I changed the title!

[Allan]

I'm just dazzled by your new banner and tagline. Can't get past them to look for the movie titles. Or maybe it's the jetlag. ;-)

[Alison]

Ooooops. I posted under Allan's name. See, I'm at his house, on one of his laptops. I really am jetlagged!