Faking It; Prosthetic-Leg Style

so i'm taking a seminar called "cultural landscapes" which, after writing the first paper on defining the term, can mean anything you want it to mean. i know, this one's going to be way easy. but, easy or not, i'm in the middle of an academic crisis. not only do i reject most commonly held assumptions about my field, i don't even know where i belong and what i want to study. though i'm having a very hard time giving up the notion of being a designer. i feel like a fraud in academics, writing half-assed papers that receive comments like, "well thought out, good solution." i mean, i like the validation, but come on give me something to work with, it was not well thought out.

in class tonight we discussed what a canon of work is. "i mean, we like, looked it up in the dictionary, and like, it said something about saints and the church...and um, does that mean, like, cathedrals?" though, one of the contributers defies his stereotype by being intelligent and making well thought out comments contradictory to his wrestler physique. it was at break that the cleverness kicked in. the wrestler and the conservative, who has a fake leg!, were debating a point and at break they walked out together. as i walked past i heard the conservative say, "okay, what we'll do is go back in there, start a debate, and then i'll jump over the table and attack you." the wrestler said, "and i'll just grab your leg..."

clearly, they're keeping the best stuff left unsaid until break.