well i've officially enrolled in school for the spring term. i have to take a damn science class - suppose it's about time to put all the years i spent on the science team to good use and regurgitate something about astrophysics to graduate. i've also got to do a math class. i remember something an adviser once told me my first year about putting...
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i think i might have a roommate for new york. woot. my paper's doing really well. woot woot. i'm pretty awake and it's pretty outside and my dog is cute. even more woot. i quit my job and am going to make rent by selling things on ebay so now i can be at home and working on my paper nearly full-time.
on that note...
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on that note...
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and with this drink, the Party Which Meant Everything, And Changed Nothing has begun.
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verandi:
just stopping through... happy birthday
verandi:
hi back. hope it was a good one. 
we had gigantic fire last night. like, an intentional one. i've no idea what i did.
there are pictures of me mooning a camera in front of a giant fire. and apparently i fell asleep in matt's room and then woke up and worked on my paper. i actually did some good work.
i am, however, covered in ash and dirt and cuts and burns....
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there are pictures of me mooning a camera in front of a giant fire. and apparently i fell asleep in matt's room and then woke up and worked on my paper. i actually did some good work.
i am, however, covered in ash and dirt and cuts and burns....
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holy. fuck. it's so insanely beautiful today.
the pond is all melted (and, mind you, flooding the yard) and the dogs are running around like mad and getting all muddy and all the windows and doors are open and i'm home alone (which never happens) and just dancing around the house listening to t-rex at volumes which challenge even explosions.
i'm solidifying my thesis a...
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the pond is all melted (and, mind you, flooding the yard) and the dogs are running around like mad and getting all muddy and all the windows and doors are open and i'm home alone (which never happens) and just dancing around the house listening to t-rex at volumes which challenge even explosions.
i'm solidifying my thesis a...
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Ok, so I am exceptionally bored and waiting for one of my housemates, Theis, to wake up so we can have our reading group. Plus Im a sucker for internet question list things, I get to choose how to make myself seem, while figuring things out about myself at the same time. Yay fun!
TEN Random Things About Me
10. Rain is my favorite weather,...
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TEN Random Things About Me
10. Rain is my favorite weather,...
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fenchurch:
Rad, we have two of #7 in common.
And I like your ashtray. I have a boyscouts one.
Rad, we have two of #7 in common.
And I like your ashtray. I have a boyscouts one.
somuchrain:
the joy of being able to use my ashtray inside and smoke unceasingly while working is absolutely unspeakable. i love my ashtray, and appartments which allow smoking.
ok so the party's actually going to happen on the 16th which is a saturday and more apropriate in general.
Also, on May 23rd, the day following the montreal anarchist bookfair, the bookshop i work at is hosting a "day of anarchy" which will consist of talks, panels, performances and "socializing". this is at the langdon street cafe and will be fun and everyone on...
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Also, on May 23rd, the day following the montreal anarchist bookfair, the bookshop i work at is hosting a "day of anarchy" which will consist of talks, panels, performances and "socializing". this is at the langdon street cafe and will be fun and everyone on...
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somuchrain:
pictures of me
somuchrain:
my dog
So I'm gonna have a party on my birthday, not that I particularly care about my birthday (in a positive way at least) but because it's a good occasion to have a party. People tend to feel guilty for not coming to a birthday party and whatnot, so they show up more often. Hopefully at least. Anyway, I'm gonna have a birthday party sometime around...
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fenchurch:
Happy early birthday I suppppoooose.
somuchrain:
hey, thanks, and, hi
two old flatmates have moved out. one of them was a good friend of mine and i regret already not living with him. the two people who replaced him go to the culinary school and suck hardcore. they are loud and obnoxious and rich as hell and expect me to dress and act as though i am as rich as they. this is odd. granted...
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galvagin:
Hey howdy.
What's your thesis about?
[Edited on Mar 18, 2005 1:15PM]
What's your thesis about?
[Edited on Mar 18, 2005 1:15PM]
somuchrain:
well, first of all it's a BA 'thesis' which is why it was in quotes ...
but! I am arguing that any conception of revolution which does not take into account the trauma which we incur during daily life in the current work will always be destined to fail. I am going to read daily life through Adorno and Lukacs, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and the Situationists, as well as a few other Marxist and Anarchist thinkers in order to isolate specific forms of thought and acting which would prevent any specifically structural changes from being revolutionary. Basically, I'm saying that we won't know how to act in a post-revolutionary society, even if there is no private property, state, etc. because we'll have been constructed by a pre-revolutionary society and those things simply don't change overnight.
The second half of the paper, which I've really not solidified enough yet, will be using similar theorists as the first, to look at ways in which a revolutionary movement could function as 'therepy' and work to change the inner elements of how we're fucked up by capialism, the state, hierarchy, etc.
This is all rather new, and I've really only just started serious work on it, so it doesn't quite hang together yet, but yead, that's it. I read that you've just passed your defence? Frigging congrats! What was your thesis on? Something relating to international law and the middle east I take it?
Nice to meet you!
but! I am arguing that any conception of revolution which does not take into account the trauma which we incur during daily life in the current work will always be destined to fail. I am going to read daily life through Adorno and Lukacs, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and the Situationists, as well as a few other Marxist and Anarchist thinkers in order to isolate specific forms of thought and acting which would prevent any specifically structural changes from being revolutionary. Basically, I'm saying that we won't know how to act in a post-revolutionary society, even if there is no private property, state, etc. because we'll have been constructed by a pre-revolutionary society and those things simply don't change overnight.
The second half of the paper, which I've really not solidified enough yet, will be using similar theorists as the first, to look at ways in which a revolutionary movement could function as 'therepy' and work to change the inner elements of how we're fucked up by capialism, the state, hierarchy, etc.
This is all rather new, and I've really only just started serious work on it, so it doesn't quite hang together yet, but yead, that's it. I read that you've just passed your defence? Frigging congrats! What was your thesis on? Something relating to international law and the middle east I take it?
Nice to meet you!
so i met this kid about a month ago, around the same time i met my current partner, and he and she were sort of jokingly fighting over who deserved me more, and we all became just really great close friends and in the last two days i think my partner and i have broken up, and the friend, jonah, just moved to beirut and...
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