Daily Themes Week 4 Prompt 5A
Prompt 5A: Revising Week 2 Prompt 3
I just came back from a “job talk,” which I didn’t know was a thing before about 11:45am today. My teacher friend told me that they were for the jobless to show a school’s staff that they should hire them through a good speech about the work they do while being jobless, so that the newly-jobbed could do the same thing to some other poor soul later. The guy giving the talk had graduated from both Princeton and Columbia, with degrees in History and Anthropology. This made me jealous, because I wish I had figured out what I wanted out of my life earlier, so I could have gotten an Anthropology degree. The talk was basically on his diary-study from his time living in Philadelphia and La Mosquitia, near Honduras, where the indigenous Misquitu people couldn’t marry each other the same way because of a common lack of money and relationships between an army member and a person who is not in the army. In the end, after two hours, he said, “It’s all just about love.”
There is a practice of the “job talk,” which I was first informed of around lunchtime today, around 11:45am, from which I have only just arrived at my domicile. My mentor explained that prospective faculty were given the opportunity to deliver a cogent testament to the university’s personnel about the research they did whilst searching to be employed, and thus freshly-employed, could utilize familiar tactics in employing the subsequent crushed spirit. Our locutor received separate degrees in History and Anthropology from both Princeton and Columbia. This fact incensed me so, jealousy’s green hand grasping me as I, covetous I, wish I had antecedently understood what I desired from this mortal coil, and thus been permitted to obtain a baccalaureate in Anthropology. In reductionist terms, the lecture detailed his ethnographic research of Philadelphia and a region located in close proximity to Honduras christened La Mosquitia, where military-civilian intimate entanglements and institutionally produced monetary scarcities supplanted the customary marriage traditions of the indigenous Misquitu people. In sum, our orator of two hours asseverated this: “It’s all just pertaining to an emotion like affection, intimacy, devotion, a beating heart, the flush of skin, a tender caress, inexplicable fondness.”