Interesting conversation and other shit

Waiting in the business building for my US history class to start... what a strange locale for a history class.

Pretty nice setting, though.  And I love those tiered lecture halls.

Overheard this conversation:

Gal:  You know that question about the island?

Guy:  What question?

Gal:  Name one of two islands in the Pacific where very bloody fighting took place in 1945 between US and Japanese forces?

Guy:  Oh, yeah, that one.  What about it?

Gal:  I wrote "Rhode Island."  Was I right?

Guy:  You did what?

Gal:  Rhode Island.  It's right, isn't it?

Guy:  (Laughs).  You really fit that stereotype (continues laughing).

Gal:  What?

Guy:  You're blond...

Chunski didn't say a word.

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If you think reading management crap is mind-numbing, try this:

"The structures constitutive of a particular type of environment...produce habitus...structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures, that is, as principles of the generation and structuring of practices and representations...(Chunski gave up at this point)"   z z z z z z z z z z