One week since I got back and jet lag is still a bitch. Its 3.30am now and Im just starting to get tired. Might as well update because its that or watch tv.
Oh oh I actually have something interesting to talk about now. I'm back in Edinburgh now and in six days time we have the g8 summit here along with all the protests and stuff. Im quite excited because when I was in berkeley I realised I should be involved in more activism (ie some) and this seems like a good start. I think I will go on the stop the war march and the makepovertyhistory march but will skip the anti globalisation/anti capitalist stuff as thats not really for me. My friend alecho (who is one of the few good things about coming home) says they've spent fifty million on the security for that weekend. I find this a bit hard to believe though. I could google it to check but I cant be bothered right now.
In the meantime I am bombarding the city with cvs trying to get some job or other. As always its kindof soul destroying work but at the end of the day its a percentage game so I don't get too down about it. By the time I've been round a hundred places at least one has to have offered me a job right?
Have decided for the first time ever to conciously remain single. The key to this I have decided (aleco agrees) is for masturbation to no longer become a leisure activity but an obligatory, serious and essential timetabled part of the day just like breakfast. Without it I know I will just end up with another pretty thing who will dissolve my cash overnight and give me a headache into the bargain. Seriously though its amazing how suddenly my expenditure has become neglible and I can dress how I like, wear my hair how I like and everything. I am free and it feels good. Do I miss the sex? sometimes between my morning and evening wank I start to but then I remind myself of all the baggage that comes along with it.
Because I'm not in school and not currently working I have a bunch of time. So I am reading a good amount at the moment. Almost finished plato's republic which has so far been very dissapointing although the facist stuff is kindof funny and I'm just getting into some very perceptive stuff on tyrants which fits the current situation frighteningly.
Okay so I look clever I shall dig out a quote. This is from book eight 566e. I realise now its not a brilliant quote but its the best I could find. The general theme of how tyrants start out posing as popular heros is interesting.
"But I suppose that, when he [the tyrant] has dealt with his exiled enemies by making peace with some and destroying others, so that all is quiet on that front, the first thing he will do is stir up a war, so that the people will continue to feel the need for a leader"
I thought there was something similar in machiavelli but I was flicking through and couldn't find it.
how far up my own ass have I dissapeared? rather far I think but it is four in the morning so I think I'm excused on that count.
Anyway more soon hopefully
Oh oh I actually have something interesting to talk about now. I'm back in Edinburgh now and in six days time we have the g8 summit here along with all the protests and stuff. Im quite excited because when I was in berkeley I realised I should be involved in more activism (ie some) and this seems like a good start. I think I will go on the stop the war march and the makepovertyhistory march but will skip the anti globalisation/anti capitalist stuff as thats not really for me. My friend alecho (who is one of the few good things about coming home) says they've spent fifty million on the security for that weekend. I find this a bit hard to believe though. I could google it to check but I cant be bothered right now.
In the meantime I am bombarding the city with cvs trying to get some job or other. As always its kindof soul destroying work but at the end of the day its a percentage game so I don't get too down about it. By the time I've been round a hundred places at least one has to have offered me a job right?
Have decided for the first time ever to conciously remain single. The key to this I have decided (aleco agrees) is for masturbation to no longer become a leisure activity but an obligatory, serious and essential timetabled part of the day just like breakfast. Without it I know I will just end up with another pretty thing who will dissolve my cash overnight and give me a headache into the bargain. Seriously though its amazing how suddenly my expenditure has become neglible and I can dress how I like, wear my hair how I like and everything. I am free and it feels good. Do I miss the sex? sometimes between my morning and evening wank I start to but then I remind myself of all the baggage that comes along with it.
Because I'm not in school and not currently working I have a bunch of time. So I am reading a good amount at the moment. Almost finished plato's republic which has so far been very dissapointing although the facist stuff is kindof funny and I'm just getting into some very perceptive stuff on tyrants which fits the current situation frighteningly.
Okay so I look clever I shall dig out a quote. This is from book eight 566e. I realise now its not a brilliant quote but its the best I could find. The general theme of how tyrants start out posing as popular heros is interesting.
"But I suppose that, when he [the tyrant] has dealt with his exiled enemies by making peace with some and destroying others, so that all is quiet on that front, the first thing he will do is stir up a war, so that the people will continue to feel the need for a leader"
I thought there was something similar in machiavelli but I was flicking through and couldn't find it.
how far up my own ass have I dissapeared? rather far I think but it is four in the morning so I think I'm excused on that count.
Anyway more soon hopefully
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what does the writing on your neck say - looks like gaelic?