no thinking required ( Read more... )

chris hedges wrote something along the lines of, we can't help what others do to us, nor can we change. what we can control is what we do with what's been done to us. that's sort of been weighing heavily on me lately.

lord, just get me through the next 24 hours without a nervous breakdown, and i will do my best to make use of that phone number that's been kicking around the apartment for a few days now.

who amongst you who know me well would have ever thought i'd be working two freaking jobs?!?! but i figure since both of my roomates are leaving me, and i'm stuck here, i may as well fill the time productively....sigh.

sunnysunnysunny, drinking coffee, working on my second philosophy paper (bloody Rousseau) and listening to sloppy seconds. it could only be the end of the school year.

my brain is swimming with philosophy!
term paper 1: Discuss Rousseau's concept of legitimacy of the state and critique from a Marxist point of view
term paper 2: Quebec's Quiet Revolution and the contemporary separatist movement represent a process of decolonization and resistance to anglophone imperialism.
paper number three: If gender is ( Read more... )

i am increasingly appreciating the maxim of 'ignorance is bliss'. discussing the alienation of our species being was not how i wanted to start out my classes for the week, and not at 8:30 in the morning.

i'm hooked on coincidences right now. last time i was in DC, i kept seeing silver VW bugs - i took note because i HATE THE WITH THE FIRE OF A ( Read more... )

this weather is so cold, it's going to give me a nervous break down. about 80% of the people in my life are driving me insane, and i'm finding it really difficult to stay affable enough to not alienate the other 20%, with mixed success, which isn't helped by the fact that i don't see a good portion of them very often ( Read more... )

i know everyone was holding their breath, but you can exhale now, i ain't goin' anywhere for march break - i can't get the time off work and i'm drowning in papers. i don't get to go anywhere for easter either cause it's right in the middle of exams :(. it's also a million effing below outside and i can't get in touch with my supervisor from whom ( Read more... )

i got on the plane at 6 this morning in freddy, expecting to shed my scarf by the time i touched down in DC at 10:30. of course, i hadn't anticipated being able to shed vest, sweater, pants (don't worry i replaced them with something else) and socks because it's 25 degrees on the back porch ( Read more... )