A non-structuralist accounting of my day
2003-11-11 @ 8:53 a.m.

Ah, yes, another covert breakfast in the SAC computer lab. Luckily, the nice lab tech is here in the morning and she doesn't bug me about my bagel and fruit and caffine. MMmmmmm... bagels and fruit and caffine.

I'm really going to miss anime club over the break. I really don't remember the last time I laughed as much as I did at The Excel Saga. Then I went home and had rice. It was a good night. And I've got the theme song in my head.

Yesterday, was Case Study Monday, the best day of the week for American Studies. We actually get to discuss things instead of listening to Dr. Burton lecture. I'm really really sick of lecture at this point. Two shocking things happened. One: Stupid Loud Freshman said something intelligent. (Could it be that there is hope for the future of man kind? ::looks around:: Maybe not.) Two: I got into an argument with Interestingly Named Guy. It was fun! I even stopped myself from calling him foolish. And, boy, was his argument foolish. Saying that all Americans with communist leanings in the 1940s and '50s were trying to overthrow the government and were therefore treasonous and therefore rightfully subject to an abridgment of civil liberties is completely foolish. Ludicrous even. That's like saying "all Muslims are terrorists" or "all Catholics are pedaphiles." Nuts, I tell you. But I won. And that's the important thing.

I finished reading Bootstraps on the train this morning. I am now intellectually infatuated with Dr. Villanueva and want to go to Flagstaff and take one of his classes. So if I start throwing around phrases like "Gramscian" or "internal colonialism," feel perfectly free to hit me with something heavy. I'm starting to annoy myself with academic politics, so I image that it's several time worse for those around me.

Speaking of academic politics: I've created Post Modern Confucian Socialism. If you can figure out what that means, you get a cookie.

Thought of the Day will be on hiatus until Sarah gets her shit together. In its place, we bring you the following quote (courtesy Rufus Wainwright):

"And a ship with eight sails could come 'round the bend, or a herd of bulls charging stop lights red; I'd be blind."

before ~ after

Failing Miserably - 2004-10-08
So Not Dead/Catching Up - 2004-09-20
Murphy's Law - 2,629,163,298, Sarah - 2 - 2004-08-23
Listmainia! continues - 2004-08-04
Continuing the list - 2004-08-02