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Wednesday 11/29/00
The dispatch from Wednesday, November 29, 2000.
I woke up this morning at nine a.m. after a little more than nine hours of sleep. Though my room was warm last night when I went to bed, it was about fifty degrees when I woke up. So I went to turn on the window unit which means standing on the arm of the couch. That done, I, in my jockey shorts and tee-shirt got really fucking cold in about two minutes, so I crawled back into bed. Then it was eleven a.m. Then it was one thirty p.m.
So I missed Metaphysics.
And in the CW today there was another terrible article by Kristin Landfield. This article was about bad schools and stupid children.
Here, you might enjoy this. Juliet runs a decent diary and Dembones has a great excerpt therein. Dig it. Later: the diary's not great, but it's okay. It bears the taint of Plath. Regrettable, truly regrettable.
Which reminds me, Trevor's cooking up some monster shit that I think I might want to be a part of. He's working on a computer game unlike any computer game I've heard of.
Official Front: So in the wake of my McTaggart paper, I worked on summarizing Quine's "Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis" (which summary, at eight pages, stands completed) and then began preliminary readings of Chisholm's "Identity and Time" and Quine's entry on Identity from Quiddities. I still owe Dr. Taaffe a paper on Marvel. I don't generally like Christian authors and I almost never like political authors. Academia: unappealing. Even in philsophy academia remains unappealing, but that isn't the fault of the faculty, it's the fault of the students.
Somehow it seems that doing literary or philsophical work would be more fun were I trying to sneak it in between sales reports or legal briefs. When I was a child, I remember trying to read during class and getting in trouble. When I was taking Algebra II, I was reading Nausicca one day and Mrs. Roberts kept telling me to shut the book. I had never enjoyed Ulysses so much as I did that day, and I have not enjoyed it so much since.
I'm still trying to get the content for last week up online. I apologize to my no-doubt enormous readership for not filling your lives with joy.
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