lacking a contact lense
My eye hurt so I had to take out my contact lens. So now I am half blind. I hate being half blind. Listening to new Arcade Fire album, I cannot rate it highly enough, very good times "Neon Bible" *and* anti christian, making it both exciting and important. Anyway, , Golden Key has got sufficient funding to send at least me to conference, which is pretty fantastic. Still have to shell out a lot, in a rather unanticipated manner right in the middle of a semester, but two weeks in the states should be fun.
Going to Atlanta, Georgia for the conference, but hopefully might mosey on up the East Coast, hopefully ending up in New York in a bit of a holiday afterwards (even though technically it is in the middle of term - from 2 August). Its all so expensive though, and finding airfares that are appropriate seems impossible. Good old strong NZ dollar though, makes the trip a little more possible. The more it goes up, the better for us.
Anyway, everything is taking a slight break at the moment. People still doing exams, or away on holidays, so pretty lonely in Christchurch, trying to sort out a flat with Rdoc. I am still muddling over what to do for career, as much as I hate the word, as it implies work...real...hard stressful work, which I want to avoid at all costs, but will eventually need to engage in. Right now, academia is the thing I am heading towards, might even get published by some american student run journal "Animal Law" with my latest essay being submitted by my lecturer. Really, I have no idea, there is little that interests me enough to inspire me into action, and money just isn't enough of a motivator to get me going into a sellout corporate position. I'd like to change the world for the better, but I don't really know the best way to go about it, other than vaguelly drifting towards there. I sometimes wonder if we exist in quite another capacity, floating in a giant galleon, facing the world as if it were an ocean of possibility, without any land on the horizon, just inevitable, pointless death, but I guess the distinct possibility we can make our fellow ships lives better or worse by drifting in mutually beneficial ways. Perhaps thats what it is all about, over analysing.
Keep your wonderful lives flowing filled with life and beauty and oranges. Remember Jesus loves you, and he will never forsake you, unless you decide to believe in some other salvation, in which case he will damn you to eternal suffering in a giant pit of sulfer and burning. Fucking Christians.
Going to Atlanta, Georgia for the conference, but hopefully might mosey on up the East Coast, hopefully ending up in New York in a bit of a holiday afterwards (even though technically it is in the middle of term - from 2 August). Its all so expensive though, and finding airfares that are appropriate seems impossible. Good old strong NZ dollar though, makes the trip a little more possible. The more it goes up, the better for us.
Anyway, everything is taking a slight break at the moment. People still doing exams, or away on holidays, so pretty lonely in Christchurch, trying to sort out a flat with Rdoc. I am still muddling over what to do for career, as much as I hate the word, as it implies work...real...hard stressful work, which I want to avoid at all costs, but will eventually need to engage in. Right now, academia is the thing I am heading towards, might even get published by some american student run journal "Animal Law" with my latest essay being submitted by my lecturer. Really, I have no idea, there is little that interests me enough to inspire me into action, and money just isn't enough of a motivator to get me going into a sellout corporate position. I'd like to change the world for the better, but I don't really know the best way to go about it, other than vaguelly drifting towards there. I sometimes wonder if we exist in quite another capacity, floating in a giant galleon, facing the world as if it were an ocean of possibility, without any land on the horizon, just inevitable, pointless death, but I guess the distinct possibility we can make our fellow ships lives better or worse by drifting in mutually beneficial ways. Perhaps thats what it is all about, over analysing.
Keep your wonderful lives flowing filled with life and beauty and oranges. Remember Jesus loves you, and he will never forsake you, unless you decide to believe in some other salvation, in which case he will damn you to eternal suffering in a giant pit of sulfer and burning. Fucking Christians.