April 2009
2 posts
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the...”
– Saint Augustine (via reluctantbuddha)
Note to self-be more miserly →
March 2009
8 posts
:) →
Quote of the day: “…female homosexuality is the emergence of psychosis into culture.” Made me laugh out loud in Peet’s. Oh Ms. Butler, you have such wisdom.
My major advisor really is the best in the world-even though she’s a Kantian.
Still writing, grumble…
“The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in...”
– Anne Morriss, on my cup o’ Starbucks inspiration. I know, I know, but I appreciate advice on head-removal for better living. (via ihavesomanyfeelings)
I have gotten this quote on no less than five cups of coffee in the past month. Makes me want to scream! I agree but can’t get anybody else to...
If you can never know what something will have been,
and can only be sure of what it was.
Then maybe absence is the best kind of presence.
Ugh the quarter system is an excercise in mental and physical endurance-apparently I’m out of shape.
did you...
reluctantbuddha:
play the piano?
go for a walk?
take photographs?
practice yoga?
sing?
laugh?
do something creative that feeds your soul today?
go ahead. we’ll be here when you get back.
Prop 8 →
So seeing the anti-Prop 8 rallies on t.v. at the gym almost made me cry. I must be getting my period, or I just really care…
February 2009
17 posts
Today was really a great day. It started with my advisor saying I was on my way to writing a thesis like Walter Benjamin’s (I’m pretty sure she overestimates me, but still a big compliment), after getting over the claustrophobia of the Law School I learned that I actually get to do real work and work with law students (and the one I’m working most directly with is a big queer),...
Every time I have a meeting at the law school, I’m am overtaken by a feeling of being trapped in a freshly painted a modernly decorated prison. As I’m waiting for the meeting to begin, I’m sitting on the eighth floor of the main building looking out the panorama window that spans two full walls. Even if it’s grey outside this is still an impressive view. The students sit...
reluctantbuddha:
copycats
(via lnr)
Ben Lee...
Catholic Church offers indulgences-seriously? i... →
It's almost SPRING! That means it's Trend Report... →
Is it a good sign when U.S. economic policy is... →
This week Sarkozy decided to lend $6.5 billion euros to three major French car companies-Renault, Peugeot-Citreon, and Renault Trucks. In exchange for these bail outs the companies have agreed to keep open all of their French plants. Sarkozy says firmly that the money is not meant as a hand-out but rather as a loan to prepare the companies for the changing auto-industry-noteably one of the largest...
Obama ballet outing makes headlines in France →
One of my favorite things to do on weekends is to scan through the websites of various international newspapers to see 1. what is going on abroad, 2. what news is being covered abroad, 3. how the news is being covered abroad. I was particularly excited once Obama took office to see how he would be received overseas. On the front page of LeMonde online-right next to an article on Biden’s...
As a disclaimer, I expect this will be muddled, as I spent two hours this evening at an event for Marriage Equality that featured a very open bar.
Subsequently I had a nice long chat with my best friend . We basically whined at each other regarding our respective matters of the heart. She has been dating the same boy for going on two years-which to me seems like an outstanding achievement. The...
theory.org →
Pretty much the best website…ever…for anyone remotely interested in cultural theory.
A new beginning...
As of late I have been spending extensive periods of time on my computer doing research for my thesis-think dense volumes of philosophy that may or may not be written in my native tongue. On the best of days, I find myself engaged with ideas and thinking of exciting ways to apply the material to political theory. On the worst of days, I spend hours scanning books for something relevant, and hoping...