comrades ( Read more... )

Friedrich Nietzsche is transported through time to the early 21st Century. With no marketable skills, he is forced to take a position as a checkout assistant at Tesco. The comedy practically writes itself from this point.

no serbia after all. as the course starts in september. and so does my masters! GRAH!!!

I may go teach English in a Siberian university sometime soon (Tyumen Oid and Gas University, to be precise - ch-ch-ch-checkitout: http://www.tgngu.tyumen.ru/eng/). It sounds pretty cool, they give free lessons in Russian ( Read more... )

another day, another covering letter

i watched this cool programme today about serbia. when they overthrew milosovic! i was all, yay revolution ( Read more... )

"Modern humans are pattern-seeking animals. We search for meaning in a complex, quirky, and contingent world. But we are also storytelling animals, and for thousands of years our myths have sustained us with stories of meaningful pattern. Evolutionary psychology is based on the recognition that the human brain consists of a large collection of ( Read more... )

my exile was made somewhat more pleasant today by the occurance of a few things. a beautiful day, idleness, a trampoline, discovery of a bunch of essays by walter benjamin in the oxfam, as well as a goethe. well. this entry is going to be lame, i can feel it i am very hungover. maybe i sould mix myself up a martini! but then that would just be ( Read more... )

drunk. martini after martini. work today a mess of hangover. didn't know where it was at, as in the dylan song. argh, so many times in my life, have i been a dick. but who cares. if i could find the spirit which hangs on my back. office as a fascist programme - david brent the jester as buffoon; the only reasonable thing to do is submit to ( Read more... )

holy fuck.

the definition of 'not worksafe':

http://www.bangedup.com/post.php?media=2068