giulilove ([info]giuliabadoolia) wrote,
2010-05-12 10:04:00
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They only want you when you're 17

"Giulia Benicivenga's articulate, clear-headed, and dynamic presence in my course was the mere surface undulation of her unfathomable intellectual curiosity and precocity. Widely read and confident in her principled thought, Giulia was also conscientious about her arguments, and we frequently had wide ranging conversations in office hours in relation to film (she was the only student to the take up the formidable challenge of explicating Jean Luc Godard's Notre Musique) and literature. The culmination of these conversations was a her eloquent and deftly handled critique of French philosopher Alain Badiou's "Manifesto of Affirmation," a transhistorical take on artistic production. Concentrating on the privileged left-wing political aesthetic in Badiou (though his is not a predictable one), Giulia teased out Lenin and a variety of other subtleties in the "Manifesto" before making a surprising turn to Locke's emphasis on immediate sense perception as a way of undermining the idealist egalitarianism in Badiou's aesthetics and politics. She wrote several other excellent papers, including a stirringly evocative personal essay. A singular student with the intellectual tools for the long-haul, she is one of the most engaged and brilliant students I've encountered teaching at both the University of Iowa and UCSC."

If only I were as smart/could make my professor want to have sex with me as much as when I was 17.

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[info]laurenpham

May 12 2010, 17:06:26 UTC 2 years ago

oh mercy.

[info]giuliabadoolia

May 12 2010, 17:19:28 UTC 2 years ago

SRSLY. I used to be so much smarter/good-natured/curious about life. Now it's just bbqs every day, driving fancy cars.

[info]laurenpham

May 12 2010, 19:14:15 UTC 2 years ago

you still got it girl, you just need to get out of santa cruz! you have such a bright future ahead. :)

[info]john_naked

May 12 2010, 20:59:51 UTC 2 years ago

remember when

you hated me and you loved dlau?

[info]here_alive

May 12 2010, 22:58:36 UTC 2 years ago

he wants to bone you so hard

[info]wystel

May 13 2010, 13:31:51 UTC 2 years ago

careful what you wish for.

Anonymous

May 14 2010, 06:48:35 UTC 2 years ago

why would you actually ever post this?

[info]dozhdbog

May 15 2010, 05:32:17 UTC 2 years ago

I think the better question is.... why wouldn't she?

Anonymous

May 18 2010, 20:52:58 UTC 2 years ago

well it just screams of pathetic insecurity, but i dont know this girl. i guess congrats on thinking your professor wants to fuck you based on a rec letter

[info]dozhdbog

May 18 2010, 21:49:21 UTC 2 years ago

I find more pathetic insecurity in anonymously posting nasty attacks against someone you just admitted you don't know, to be honest.
So, congrats are in order for the following:

1. Assuming giulia is basing her opninion on a rec letter alone.
2. The woeful irony of condemning her "pathetic insecurity" after admitting you don't know her.
3. Being an anonymous asstard

[info]dozhdbog

May 18 2010, 21:52:41 UTC 2 years ago

I forgot 5.


5. Poor reading skills. Giulia has posted a few times in the past that her entries are often tongue-in-cheek satirical creations.

Anonymous

May 18 2010, 22:26:44 UTC 2 years ago

ok ok. i was just browsing. but i asked a question first. i just wanted to know what the point of posting it was. i dunno this person. sorry. she can delete my comments.

Anonymous

May 18 2010, 22:30:40 UTC 2 years ago

and when i said i dont know her, i meant to say the post seemed that way, but maybe she is not. and my reading skills arent that great, i know. but i just wanted to know what's up. why someone would post something that seems to have been given in private and in a specific situation in this medium? im just interested in why people choose to post such personal things about themselves on livejournal. i also have never seen anyone post a rec letter before, so i was surprised. but props to the girl, she's got it. i dunno. sorry, didnt mean to be rude.

[info]giuliabadoolia

May 18 2010, 22:43:29 UTC 2 years ago

you didn't mean to be rude by calling me pathetic? you seem to be a bizarre mixture of harsh words and apologetic verses, my dear anonymous. but yes, as already been explained by dozhdbog, my journal is very much an exploration of my own whimsically volatile sensations and should be taken with a grain of salt. this was not a letter of recommendation, and this is not my real world. so, please, if you cannot understand sarcasm it's best if you leave it alone.

Anonymous

May 19 2010, 04:19:31 UTC 2 years ago

i guess i meant to be rude, but with a point.a point which has been lost in between insulting my reading skills (with merit) and my own realization that it wasnt a good one to begin with. why take offense to being called pathetic by an absolute stranger anyway? i seriously wanted an explanation of what i thought is/was a rec letter, followed by a thought that i thought was the least thing i could expect after such a sparking review. dont hide behind satire, or whim anyway. but anyway. ive broken the third wall of this journal, and this post was obviously meant for people who know you. my apologies. i'm going to stop reading because i am uncomfortable with the level of interaction i had with the audience, and it doesnt really help my research here. please be assured no harm was meant. i posed a question out of knee-jerk gut instinct, and you wouldnt know who i am anyway, so anonymity seemed like the best choice. anyway. well ive become flustered and humiliated by this flurry of comments, please be assured i will not read this anymore.

my sincerest apologies. i truly don't have any damaging opinion of you and if did who cares, i doubt we'll ever meet. i wish this could be a private email to the owner of the journal where i dive into more private motives for me reading it, but im done being a creep and i hate being attacked for a miscommunication.

i once again sincerely apologize, and am deleting this from my history of browsed lj's.

Anonymous

June 26 2010, 12:28:25 UTC 1 year ago

Ciao Giulietta, lo so che sei un fenomeno. Come stai?
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