This campus is like Eden with giant trees, emerald lawns, miles of sports fields, hunky football players called the Bruins, sculptures and grand gothic buildings for the study of every subject known to man. There are lots of Oriental people who are born with IQ’s in the thousands and me. My parents who thought I was retarded should spin like Dervishes in their graves. I’m going to start Monday so I’m off to buy pencils and a ruler.
Just got to my dorm at UCLA I’m doing a ‘residency’ here where they are going to help me create a play out of “Sane New World” and I get the use of all the film departments animators, digital and film people to create the visuals so it’s not just one woman up there (me) but a whole visual feast. I wanted to get into school here 150 years ago but I was too stupid (low SAT scores) I guess I’m a late bloomer. I went to the Student Union yesterday and pretended to blend in; I bought neuroscience books like I was going to class to study it. Just before I left the UK I was seriously pimping my book (Sane New World-a plug) because this is like my baby and I want it to live and grow up. I started to go to bookshops with little cards that publicized my own book, they looked at me with pity and awe thinking, “Who does this?” I suppose I got this drive from my immigrant ancestors who had to be pushy to get out whatever ghetto they lived in; quick scuttling across borders to get away with piano’s on their backs. Well, for me it’s the same sense of survival but I have my book on my back.
This campus is like Eden with giant trees, emerald lawns, miles of sports fields, hunky football players called the Bruins, sculptures and grand gothic buildings for the study of every subject known to man. There are lots of Oriental people who are born with IQ’s in the thousands and me. My parents who thought I was retarded should spin like Dervishes in their graves. I’m going to start Monday so I’m off to buy pencils and a ruler.
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Sue B
23/6/2013 09:09:53 am
If you need a pencil sharpener, picking up the pencil sharpening shavings person or a book carrier or a body double (I will hop off half my legs so we are the same size) call me, you are living my dream and after devouring your book I have concluded that I am you, or we are telepathically connected because you wrote my thoughts..... Call me :))
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Asif Hasan
7/7/2013 03:37:37 am
Dear Ruby
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23/6/2013 09:23:39 am
Congrats! My husband says they're not gettin' much of a summer in the UK, so you get some sunshine for your brain as well. Alright - the world is your oyster, so have fun and get to work. x
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anna sz
23/6/2013 05:33:00 pm
Just tell me where to send the blue stripy cushion!! I have a hunch you will receive about 100,000 of them this year...... You are there (UCLA) because you belong in this world! Thank you for your awesome tome. ENJOY EVERY MOMENT.
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Debbie Williams
29/6/2013 02:02:20 pm
I started law school at age 50; was a pre-law student 30 years ago.
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