Coup

I don't know what happened this afternoon. I gave a presentation, one that the only preparation I had done was spend about an hour collecting images from the internet and putting them into powerpoint.

The assignment was to propose a museum exhibit and in the grad student meeting with the professor she rejected my first proposal and suggested I make an exhibit on Cold War Architecture. However on Friday my presentation wasn't on Cold War Architecture, it was on Cold War landscapes. And when the professor read the title on my first slide she couldn't hide her confusion/frustration/contempt with me. During the first part of the presentation she told me to speak up, that she couldn't hear me. All the while I was clicking through my slides as fast as possible because after all, I was running on no sleep. And then, and then I played an audio clip. It's a sound track to an Air Force Training movie, it describes in detail how a missile guidance system triangulates to find out where the missile is ("it knows where it is because it knows where it isn't"). During the three minute clip she laughed until she had to put her head down on the desk and I totally won her over. She also said the clip sounded like how she balances her checkbook.

The other MLA student and I walked out together, me laughing and he shaking his head in disbelief. He kept saying, "I don't know how you did that." And I can't say that I know either.