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 often when i tell them that i wont go to the bar with them because i'm broke i *am* lieing, and in fact just don't want to go out with them, but they expect me always to have money to drink with them because that's simply what roommates do. one of them also threw a little hissy fit at me the other day because my dog was barking out my window at me for about half an hour while i was smoking outside. meh. sit on it.
any rate ... i'm moving out and back to live in a house rented by my friends in woodbury. it's hella more isolated, but i'll still work in town three days a week, and have friends places i can stay over if need be. it will be better in woodbury because everyone there is brilliant and lovely and wonderful and i'll be able to live with people i care about and who i know actually care about me. i'll also be online more reliably, and be able to get a lot more work done on my 'thesis' because i wont be constantly so distracted by the goings-on of town. summary: i'm moving out of town, i'm happy, it will be good. this will allow me to save money so i can move back to new york sooner and afford to graduate sooner. yay.
this weekend i am home at my father's. he's moved since i was last home and the new house is in grafton, which is totally and utterly the middle of nowhere so i've nothing to do here other than smoke (i'm down to four and haven't any way to get any more) and twiddle my fingers. t.e.d.i.o.u.s.
i've also got to deal with the fact that my father has a new house, new wife, and two new children and when i come home i'm not part of it at all. 'my bedroom' is this weird floral lacey thing with all my father's fiance's stuff in it. suffice it to say, this place sucks, and i expect i'll be drunk and online being somewhat more self-deprocating and sad later this evening.
rawk on rebel warriors.
any rate ... i'm moving out and back to live in a house rented by my friends in woodbury. it's hella more isolated, but i'll still work in town three days a week, and have friends places i can stay over if need be. it will be better in woodbury because everyone there is brilliant and lovely and wonderful and i'll be able to live with people i care about and who i know actually care about me. i'll also be online more reliably, and be able to get a lot more work done on my 'thesis' because i wont be constantly so distracted by the goings-on of town. summary: i'm moving out of town, i'm happy, it will be good. this will allow me to save money so i can move back to new york sooner and afford to graduate sooner. yay.
this weekend i am home at my father's. he's moved since i was last home and the new house is in grafton, which is totally and utterly the middle of nowhere so i've nothing to do here other than smoke (i'm down to four and haven't any way to get any more) and twiddle my fingers. t.e.d.i.o.u.s.
i've also got to deal with the fact that my father has a new house, new wife, and two new children and when i come home i'm not part of it at all. 'my bedroom' is this weird floral lacey thing with all my father's fiance's stuff in it. suffice it to say, this place sucks, and i expect i'll be drunk and online being somewhat more self-deprocating and sad later this evening.
rawk on rebel warriors.
What's your thesis about?
[Edited on Mar 18, 2005 1:15PM]
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!