dream_school epitome of incomprehensibility I can take a class with the course code BARN. It's short for Barnology. It has a bit about agriculture, yes, but also literature. Something about how people imagine the rural. My advisor is a friendly man about my age. Brown-haired, white, a bit of a paunch, and probably gay, at least if he's the same person who played a comically sympathetic Satan in a YouTube video I saw. He encourages me to sign up for two summer classes now, not just one, as that will take pressure off me in my last year at Concordia. "And if you want to take four courses a term in the fall and winter, you can choose ones that you like, not just ones you have to take," he says. The "third summer term" runs from July 30 to August 20. I can see the numbers in front of me. "But if classes are every weekday, that could be a problem," I reply. "For five days in August, I'll be at my aunt's in Ontario." So he shows me a course that's online. I ask if I can see the sheet he has with all the possible courses. He is perfectly willing to show it to me, but the dream makes it difficult. Sometimes I can only read writing if I'm behind a desk. Sometimes the scene shifts to outdoors and I have to remember what I'm looking for. Still, I'm confident that I'll find what I what, or at least that the search is worthwhile. (Now I miss something I didn't know I wanted: a third, intensive summer term. Concordia usually has two summer terms and not a lot of classes are offered - usually none in the linguistics.) 230721 ... e_o_i *in linguistics, not in THE linguistics. But yes. This is one of those dreams y'all will probably find boring, but to me it was fascinating how much it stuck to facts. You make everything just a tiny bit different... 230721 ... e_o_i The University of Vienna is advertising a four-week intensive summer ballet program. The catch is that applicants have to make their own ballet outfits; there's a picture up of a young woman in a tutu made of woven candy wrappers. The brochure says the university wants to show support towards trans dancers, but how...? By letting them wear non-standard outfits. There's a picture of a young man, and the deal is he's still used to doing ballet in a skirt from when his body was more of a girl's, so he's wearing a skirt-like ruffle. And this sounds fair and inclusive until you realize that whoever gets in - whoever even *applies* - has to make all their ballet clothes themselves. Plus there's the cost. Is it really that accessible? 240603 what's it to you? who go blather from