Friday, July 20, 2001

Ok, well, it's the weekend, midterms were good, I don't have them back yet which makes me a bit anxious... I like closure. I want to see what I got, and then I can stop worrying, unless of course, I did badly, in which case a whole new wave of anxiety comes about doing better on other exams, etc.

Anyhow... that's about all that's happening. I'm going home in a few minutes to hang out w/ friends and stuff.... Tyo is apparently getting back this weeekend, and hopefully I'll stop by sometime Sunday.

Based on my chinese class yesterday, I've found that for some reason I get a little annoyed when people who reliabily get 90s or above on quizzes/tests always complain that they're "really nervous about the next one" when they'll just get another 90 or 100, nervous or not, they still study a lot, or are intrinsically better at the subject, and as such, will get a respectable grade.

Ok, so it doesn't really make all that much sense, but, hey, when do I make sense?

Monday, July 16, 2001

Whoooa. Well, that's the Chinese quiz down. English paper and English Midterm to go...

But after tomorrow at around 3:00 to 3:30 PM... it's cruisin' 'till the weekend... yeeeaaahhhh.

My entire lifestyle has changed. So far, it's for the better.

Sunday, July 15, 2001

Hello people, today, again, I am going to write a long rambling discourse about nothing, because, I need to write a paper.

<this is the beginning>

ok, so begins my paper on Bswe'lls londoun journal. Wait, I need to turn off this accursed music... ack ack kac. Ok, back to this typing myumbo jumbo. Boswell's london journal is about this dude who's pretty messed up in the head, and he's tromping about London and sleeping with countless prostitutes and getting a lot of gonorreah and doing it to reassure himself of himself because he's a narcissist with an unstable mind... umm.. ok. So, this essay, what will my thesis statement be? I have ample evidence about him being a narcissiscist and in need of reassurance from hismelf or rather of himself and so that's probably a good idea. Maybe about how he sleeps a lot with whores. Umm. Hmm. How he plays different roles for different peole or sometimes for his own amusement,... there is omething to be said intersting there. Zahr, the teachign felow suggested I go w/ the journal because I can relate to it. I can relate because boswell says he writes the journal in order to act as a sort of theraby for his previously uncalled bipolar disorder which he apparently had. Not only that, but he seems to believe in this whole playing roles to different people thing, which I am wholeheartedly convinced coccurs all the time, and that life is a sequence of different roles for different people. Sincerity is awfully difficult in a world like that, no? Alright, I don't really think that people really go about their entire lives in masks, but that will be the perspective of my paper, I think.

Ok, so lets break this down. So far, I have what?
My premise is that Boswell is a narcissist. Hmm... Zahr said to make a thesis that is somewhat debatable, and the prove it, as and saying that boswell is a narcissist and sleeps with whores as a reasurrance to himself is something that we sort of touched on in class, but sort of not... I wonder if it would be a bad idea to write about that,. Ack ack ack. Well, for the interim, shit, I need eye meds, ack ack ack.Ok, back from eye meds. Boswell is a narcissicist. He sleeps with whores to reassure himself of himself. Ok, now, where's the debateable statement there? There isn't one, but I'm sure if I just went one level further, I'd find one, because I am unsure of what lies further on. Ok, so, umm, how about that part where he practically rapes some girl because he's pretending he's a "blackguard" whatever that means... Ok, I just looked it up in the OED, and apparently it could be a number of things, but I think in this case it just means that he's pretending to be a sort of lowly army person type thing "the rabble of irregular hangers-on". So basically, he's a vagrant thug. So he's wandering around pretending to be something he's not and he goes and says he'll pay some streetwalker some little amount to fuck him, she says no, and starts screaming and stuff, so a bunch of people show up to say "hey dude, don't rape this chick" and so he sits there and give some crappy speech to win them to his side, and succeeds and everybody's suddenly like, "hey girl, he's paying you, what's the problem? you're a whore, fuck him." And so he has his way, he tries it again later but fails. Hmm... how can I work with this. Whatever, enough ramble, now for an actual outline and then paper.

<this is the end, for now>

Alright, well, that we helpful enough, so, now I'm going to use what I just did to write a paper.