Thursday, January 28, 2010

Saw a professor...

So, there's this one (tenured) professor who I run into at the student bar every so often.

The night after I ran into my one Belgian friend, I ran into her there, and we had a very good conversation, including -

1) A good friend of her friend's mother is John Waters, and he was an usher at her friend's wedding. He wore a white tux and escorted her to her seat, and she was so flustered all she could do was curtsy, since she used to sneak into movie theaters to watch movies like "Polyester" when she was growing up in New York... She said that at the reception she wanted to talk to him, but all she could do was lean against the bar like ten feet away from him, and try to overhear the comments he was making to the circle of people around him (she said they were invariably funny in a John Waters kind of way, and he was nice to everyone).

2) Her 6-year old daughter is obsessed with this Pixieland game or something that's Disney-licensed where you get to customize a fairy and hang out online with other fairies in these little fairy worlds. Because she's sure that at least half the fairies are perv-y 60-year old men, she customized her own - she made her fairy really dark black and with violet eyes - but now when she goes around to talk to the fairies to check them out, you have to ask them "Will you be my friend?" before you can talk further, and everyone keeps saying 'no' to her.

"It's pixie racism!", she was like.

3) One time she had this undergrad couple in her Milan Kundera class that would make out the entire class, and like the 3rd class, she called them out on it.

"If this is some meta-commentary on Kundera," she was like, "I approve, but I think I got the point the first time you made out for an hour-and-a-half in my class."

Then, she kicked them out.

I asked her if they got into heavy petting, and she said she couldn't see below the desks - they sat in the back - but she assumes they did, since they would start by playing with each other's hair, then nibble each other's ears, then kiss, then start frenching, and at some point their hands would drop below her line of vision...

4) Another time, this kid would always fall asleep in her seminar, and it was small, so once she got the entire class up and left to a different room while he was there sleeping.

2 comments:

JUSIPER said...

I would have asked John Waters why he hasn't made a decent film since Pecker.

el blogador said...

I think this is a while ago. I'll ask her when it was the next time I see her.