the gifts of craigslist

Find the ironic sentence (hint: it is underlined). I think it's the tone of entitlement and shamelessness that bothers me the most. I am half-tempted to reply to him/her just to get their real information and through google-fu figure out where they are enrolled and notify their professor.

Reply to: gigs-160358948@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-05-13, 6:39AM EDT


I need someone to write me a paper by this Thurs 5/17/2006. The paper will have to be 2500-3000 words (about 9-10 pages, double spaced, 12pt font) and am looking for someone who is a current Grad student (Although I may allow exceptions). You must be a History or Government major and have sufficient knowledge in both of these fields (as far as history goes, mainly the past 100-150 years). There is one stipulation: this paper has to be damn good, and I mean awesome, very proffesionally done, citations throughout, various sources, borderline publishable (although it won't be published). So only reply to this if you are capable of this kind of work. If this describes you and you have this kind of knowledge base, you can make some easy money. Will pay $400 if it is the kind of work described (I will be double checking citations to make sure it is original work). If interested, email me a sample of your work (preferably on a related topic) and why you are more than qualified to write this paper (tell me what other paper/research topics you have had in the past, tell me about what kind of knowledge you have in these fields, your educational background, and the top 2 or 3 historical events/topics in the past 150 years you have the most knowledge of). I will get back to you and let you know further details and more specifics about the exact topic as well.

dreams and gender

So, yesterday I was at a doctor's office, and in the waiting room there was a copy of Jane on the table. On the cover there was a reference to an article, "15 men you will date and dump before 30." I didn't read the article, but in my dream last night I WAS reading the article.

I only got through four of the fifteen men I was supposed to date and dump by the time I was thirty. (Also this further disproves my ex-boyfriend who was always trying to convince me that people can't read or tell time in dreams).

So,

1. The guy who sits on a bench as if it were a chair. I know this is kind of incoherent as a description, but in the dream the accompanying photograph showed a guy sitting on the back on the bench, with his feet resting on the bench itself. The sidebar talked about, "see how his legs are bent at RIGHT angles"--and for some reason this was bad.

2. The guy who has a good time, as if at a kegger, at a Habitat for Humanity Event. The picture showed a guy making a frat guy face and bonding with can of beer that he was about to smash against his forehead at an event for the cleanup of the tsunami.

3. The Boy With No Television. I was puzzled at this one, in the dream, and remember thinking--but this seems like someone I WOULD want to date, but theophile pointed out that this probably referred to a very specific type of "no TV guy" who talks incessantly about how he doesn't have a TV, and how any time anyone says anything about TV he starts talking about how he USED to have a TV and DOESN'T anymore, because he got sick of his mind being polluted by corporate garbage. Yes, I said, like a humorless vegan! Then I added, like a humorless TVegan!

4. It just said in big pink(!) letters, WEIRDASSFREAKYGUY. Dunno what that one is about.

Then theophile woke up and asked me what I was doing (I was scribbling furiously), I said, "writing down a dream." He said "were there lollipops in it?" I said "no." He said "that sucks." A+++ <3<3<3 for inadvertent half-asleep puns.