So I just spent two hours writing out a series of questions and concerns that I had concerning the reading for the ethics of well-being component of the comprehensive exam. I then proceded to e-mail them to the professor and forgot to send a copy to myself!!! In other words, i just wasted two hours of my life and a significant amount of mental ( Read more... )

A confluence of mysterious events has led me to conclude that my squirrel hypothesis is indeed correct. Most of you, however, probably have no idea what I am talking about. Allow me to elaborate ( Read more... )

Two little surveys both from taci, but one via jupitah as well ( Read more... )

I found this interesting in that most would say that it is grossly inaccurate of me. Most wold say (and I would agree) that I am very good at expressing myself verbally, and I have no idea why it considers me such a highly visual thinker. Of course, I do love to take photos and I am pretty aesthetically discerning, so maybe it's me who's grossly ( Read more... )

this should be no surprise to anyone:

I am:
-4%
Republican."You're a damn Commie! Where's Tailgunner Joe when we need him?"

Are You A Republican?

So over the past year I've found that I've changed a lot. This is inevitable as we are all constantly shedding our skins and growing them anew, but this time I feel it more than most. I nearly proposed to a woman out of love and subsequently lost that love; became disillusioned with philosophy only to discover what it really means to me; made one ( Read more... )

I would also have added a word of advice concerning the way to read this book, which is that I would like it first to be read rapidly in its entirety, like a novel, without the reader forcing his attention too much or stopping at the difficulties which he mat encounter in it simple in order to have a broad view of the matters which I have treated ( Read more... )

I just put this into byzantinespy's journal, but after having typed it, I wanted to follow the thought through for a time ( Read more... )

First of all, a special thanks to all of you who replied to my poetry post. I really dig the medium and it was good to hear that we have not yet fallen completely deaf to its call. Of course, I hardly think that my friends list is microcosmic ( Read more... )

Last night jimotron called me a "sucker for the aesthetic", and I thought it was funny. Today, I still think it is funny, but the more I think about it the more I think it is true in more ways than at first is apparent. Here are a number of was that I'm a sucker ( Read more... )