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Sunday, March 02, 2003 :::
Bull City Photograph Tour Part II
Like I said in a previous blog, I drove up to Durham the other night with UVA Debutant Girl and Could Be A Punk Rock Girl. Its funny, they don't know anything about my blog or their blog nicknames, but they were thinking up some pretty good ones themselves. They talked about Russian History Boy and Inappropriate Homeless Guy. Those are names they thought up, I had nothing to do with it.
There are about 10 people in the class of '03. There's some other folks that take a class or two a semester that started when we did, but we all started at the same time and will finish the same time. There's one other guy and then this whole giggle of girls. We all get along pretty good and no one is a real idiot. I sit there and think these girls are cute and wonder about asking them out and they probably sit there and think "Tom is such an old fart he's probably safe for us to hang around." UVA Debutant Girl referred to some guy who was at least thirty.
We all decided everyone in our class is pretty smart, the class before us had some real morons in it, and we're not sure about the class that started last fall. We also joked about how by mid-April if we don't have jobs we'll all be applying at The History Factory.
One thing made me feel good. UVA Debutant Girl had just passed her oral exams and said a paper I wrote for Historical Writing class last spring was mentioned during her exam, in a good way. The paper was called "Memoranda on the Mammoth: Jefferson, Buffon, and the North American Pachyderm." I'm glad that came up, I'd been wondering how I was going to work that title into my blog.
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Quote of the Day:
The Declaration of Independence contains a long list of crimes committed by King George III. Here is a part of that list, which was cut out of the final draft of the Declaration. In Jefferson's recollection, "it was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia."
The Declaration of Independence, uncut...
"He [the king] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep a open market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce."
--- Thomas Jefferson, draft of The Declaration of Independence, June 28, 1776
::: posted by tom at 10:34 PM
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