http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-cmNdiFuI

watch it to the end

at 4:45 I discover that there's another paper I have to write

and it's due at 5:00.

finals week: it's like I'm being chased by dogs across a fucking minefield

I have a 102 degree fever, I'm writing 2 essays, and I'm skeptical of words.

I can't determine if my paper is brilliant or a joke. My mind keeps changing from one extreme to the other. Regardless, I'm almost done, and the semester is almost over.

EDIT (3:41)
Fuck that, this is brilliant.

So I know where I'm going to go to gradschool someday. It's called the European Graduate School (EGS -- http://www.egs.edu/).
It was founded by Derrida and Baudrillard. Slavoj Zizek and Judith butler are among the current faculty. It's located in some town in Switzerland, and you basically study ( Read more... )

I love writing english papers. I love that every sentence does not have to be logically derivable from every preceding sentence. While writing philosophy papers brings me a certain sense of accomplishment when done correctly, there's no comparing to the joy I elicit from writing sentences like ( Read more... )

rushing hard breaking fast, pressing crisis threshold, shatter ensured and imminent. must stave off total mental/physical collapse until thursday and the promise of turkey and wine induced revitalization. every hour has mattered for too long; I hope I can pull this off. note that it is a saturday night. friends are all partying in drag drunk--I ( Read more... )

life is very long

It's 6 am and I'm going to sleep having neglected my french translation (Camus) and my Hamlet paper (due this morning). I've been working ( Read more... )