the fact that i'm awake is insidiously disheartening. it bodes ill for tomorrow.

1. showed off my new tattoo, which everyone agrees looks fucking badass
2. got a raise to 25 dollars an hour, totally out of the blue, which was very cool
3. flush with success from the first two, i elected to tell my dad about my name change, and was subsequently disowned.

awesomei wish i could say it had or hadn't ruined my day. its hard to ( Read more... )

i'm seriously as bored now as i've ever been

i'm stuck

i'm in this weird half inspired, half lazy state. i want to write, but i can never get going. i need to put myself into a better environment maybe? i dunno. its frustrating.

HA

now that we've all had a good laugh

so i got my grades today, and miraculously, i didn't fail anything. point of fact, i got 3 As and a B. I'm particularly proud of the B, as it was in modern philosophy, which i was moderately sure i'd barely pass.

anyone have any idea where to learn: sanskrit, latin, greek, or possibly tibetan? i find the prospect of three months without some sort of education a bit daunting, and i'd like some dead language to go with my dead white guy pontification

A few brief (HA!) comments on hope and epistemological skepticism ( Read more... )

"There are some arenas so corrupt that the only clean acts possible are nihilistic ( Read more... )

today, on my way to work, i ran into my landlord in the lobby. we talked about greek again, as we typically do when i run into him, but since my semester is finally ending, i'm gonna have the time to persue it. he's of the opinion that the way to start is with pronunciation, and to demonstrate, he recited a passage from the illiad (some of ajax's ( Read more... )

i wasn't keeping track, but at some point recently eating became more hassle than pleasure. it isn't about cooking or bad food, lamentably, but simply that i can't eat a meal anymore without feeling sick afterword ( Read more... )