I haven't posted in a long time, but today I need to do so. President-Designate Obama will change America if for no other reason than as Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winning Economist, put it ( Read more... )

I have Strep Throat. Fuck the world. My draft is due in 3 days. I hate the Spring.

So, I almost never use this cite for anything, but I felt that given who my friends are I could do you all service by writing a brief political blog on the state of affairs in this primary season ( Read more... )

So May is now over. For the Summer, I will be posting a regular monthly lists of the things I watch, read, and listen to as a means of keeping a record of my cultural exposure. This month the reading list is tainted somewhat by the fact that it includes reading and finals weeks, but that just means it is the most full that one of these lists is ( Read more... )

That's it. Another year gone by. I'm next, everyone keeps telling me. God damn, as if I didn't know. I've been waiting to be here for three years and now I'm not sure I want it to come. My thesis will be awesome and my last classes will be awesome, but holy shit in a year I'll be graduating. It doesn't seem that long, but considering that last ( Read more... )

Yup, still awake. ETA to sleep is 6 hours. Paper writing is rocking me and I am rocking it.

Love, Reed.

It is 2:30 am. I am looking at a paper I wrote on Derrida and realizing I poured myself into it and now I am not sure it is academic because of it. I wrote an ethical critique of Religion using Derrida as a jumping off point ( Read more... )

For those of you who do not read Kati's LiveJournal or require full conformation of the information contained therein: We broke up yesterday. It was amicable, but difficult. I am fine, but please step lightly.

Why, why? When, Oh Lord, did I become an alcoholic? I was drunk off my ass yesterday night at the cast party. On the plus side I had fun and enjoyed sitting around talking to the old guard and watching people I didn't know dance like idiots. I feel so old. When did I become the guy who does not know the new kids ( Read more... )

Wow that post was so emo. I apologize. However, the alcohol is helping, I have actually written a really good page since posting it on one of my papers and suddenly I actually feel better.