La chair est triste, hélas ! et j’ai lu tous les livres.

Today I forced myself out of bed. I took a shower. I made some tea. I sat on the couch and read Camus's "The Stranger". I took a 15 minute nap. Late for class. Forgot my book. Copied off of Miles. Did the reading I neglected to do last night. Went to another class and took another nap ( Read more... )

Oh! to just be a tympani and have the last two and half minutes of the Firebird played on me...

In an influential 1979 experiment two psychologists, Lyn Abramson and Lauren Alloy, set up a game in their lab, putting subjects in front of a console with lights and a button, with instructions to make a particular light flash as often as possible. Afterward, asked how much control they had had, "normal," or nondepressed, subjects gave answers ( Read more... )

Lincoln's look at that moment-the classic image of gloom-was familiar to everyone who knew him well. Such spells were just one thread in a curious fabric of behavior and thought that his friends called his "melancholy." He often wept in public and recited maudlin poetry. He told jokes and stories at odd times-he needed the laughs, he said, for his ( Read more... )

Ummm... I guess I have a lot to say but I'm too ashamed to post it on this ( Read more... )

Might go to Pakistan over Christmas Break, which would be a dream come true. And I would get to report on the lawyer's revolt ( Read more... )

The cover story this morning:

"Despite increased efforts by the airlines, one in every 138 checked bags was lost during the first nine months of this year, compared with one in 155 bags a year earlier."

HONESTLY!

So, enough of my posting random shit to the blog and more about me ( Read more... )

"The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the ( Read more... )