long weekend
so, after a week long blogger hiatus, the long weekend has sunk its midterm teeth coated with industrious intentions. what do i have left-over after my 2 weeks of blind pursuit of the emptiness of an image? well, i have salvaged some dignity, and more importantly collected the atomized pieces of worry and fear and am slowly assembling it like lego into a consolidated godzilla of sorts (read: 2 weeks of slacking off is fucking me over).
i think a lot of my life is dealing with the complicated balance between the social and the academic. i need to keep 'em separated. but oh, they bleed into each other. i end up lecturing over pho, and going out to the library with the girl of the week (read: impossible crushes that help me not study) with the guise of studying.
8.16 am now. the sun has just come up past the snow-capped mountain that looms over the skytrain tracks. sarah vaughan, the artist i sleep with, is singing her heart out, complimented by the strings we hear so rarely in contemporary music.
i'm staring at the 5 books that are going to cost me a lot of wasted money when i forget to return them come monday. i'm a little hungry, dreading (only a little though, i actually like the stuff) heading back to my bed where aristotle, rawls and kant are waiting for me. hmm. i know that was obvious, but i better qualify it: they are in my book on ethics. i am NOT sleeping with men who think they are philosophers come from the grave (or the cave haha. man, when i make a joke, i really make a joke. hrm.. this could possibly be academics bleeding into the social... meh, what can u do). just wanted to clarify that for you crystal, lest you make some sub-par joke that is an affront to homosexuality, because i am as straight as a, like, erm.. like a straight line. yeah, booyah to your grandma as they say.
sigh, this midterm is gonna be real interesting. you see, this class that i'm taking is being taught by a diplomat that worked for the canadian foreign services for 30+ years. the guy is about 60 now, and still got some pop! left in him. but man, old ppl can be long winded. anyway, what he does is contextualize philosophers such as kant and aristotle in a contemporary way. it's sorta like being hip, but not too hip. he brings in the contemporary scholars of the time such as david singer and michael ignatieff and shows how a lot of what they say has already been said by aristotle (i don't know why red reminds me of aristotle, or maybe its the other way around). it really brought life back into philosophy for me. i don't have a huge background in it, but i had never really found it very interesting in the first place. now i'm actually looking forward to brewing some tea and set the mood for a lusty night of philosophy 101. well, it's actually political science 449 ethics in IR, but it's very much philosophy.
ooh and he makes philosophy jokes that make sense only after a long pause in thinking. they are, i believe, techniques learnt thru diplomatic engagements, like when you want to insult someone without insulting someone. i think they are great, even though it takes me a little longer than most to get them (of those that actually do).
okay, i've listened to this sarah vaughn album two times over already, i'm audi.
P.S if anyone living near me is reading, and likes to play tennis, give me a shout, i have 2 hitting partners, but they don't really wake up until the afternoon. and i have such a jones for this tennis thing these days.
i think a lot of my life is dealing with the complicated balance between the social and the academic. i need to keep 'em separated. but oh, they bleed into each other. i end up lecturing over pho, and going out to the library with the girl of the week (read: impossible crushes that help me not study) with the guise of studying.
8.16 am now. the sun has just come up past the snow-capped mountain that looms over the skytrain tracks. sarah vaughan, the artist i sleep with, is singing her heart out, complimented by the strings we hear so rarely in contemporary music.
i'm staring at the 5 books that are going to cost me a lot of wasted money when i forget to return them come monday. i'm a little hungry, dreading (only a little though, i actually like the stuff) heading back to my bed where aristotle, rawls and kant are waiting for me. hmm. i know that was obvious, but i better qualify it: they are in my book on ethics. i am NOT sleeping with men who think they are philosophers come from the grave (or the cave haha. man, when i make a joke, i really make a joke. hrm.. this could possibly be academics bleeding into the social... meh, what can u do). just wanted to clarify that for you crystal, lest you make some sub-par joke that is an affront to homosexuality, because i am as straight as a, like, erm.. like a straight line. yeah, booyah to your grandma as they say.
sigh, this midterm is gonna be real interesting. you see, this class that i'm taking is being taught by a diplomat that worked for the canadian foreign services for 30+ years. the guy is about 60 now, and still got some pop! left in him. but man, old ppl can be long winded. anyway, what he does is contextualize philosophers such as kant and aristotle in a contemporary way. it's sorta like being hip, but not too hip. he brings in the contemporary scholars of the time such as david singer and michael ignatieff and shows how a lot of what they say has already been said by aristotle (i don't know why red reminds me of aristotle, or maybe its the other way around). it really brought life back into philosophy for me. i don't have a huge background in it, but i had never really found it very interesting in the first place. now i'm actually looking forward to brewing some tea and set the mood for a lusty night of philosophy 101. well, it's actually political science 449 ethics in IR, but it's very much philosophy.
ooh and he makes philosophy jokes that make sense only after a long pause in thinking. they are, i believe, techniques learnt thru diplomatic engagements, like when you want to insult someone without insulting someone. i think they are great, even though it takes me a little longer than most to get them (of those that actually do).
okay, i've listened to this sarah vaughn album two times over already, i'm audi.
P.S if anyone living near me is reading, and likes to play tennis, give me a shout, i have 2 hitting partners, but they don't really wake up until the afternoon. and i have such a jones for this tennis thing these days.
