Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Things I have recently come to discover I don't like.
One of my awesome procrastination websites is "Helsinki Looks", at hel-looks.com. It is all a bunch of pictures of people on the street in Helsinki, with a little bit of info about where they bought their clothes and what their personal style is. For some reason I like this kind of thing, the kind of thing where I can look at people who wear interesting clothes in maybe different ways from what I have considered in the past. It is incredibly frivolous, of course, but then most procrastination is.
However, from looking at all these pictures of people (so many, many people!), I've realized that I do not like:
-Animal prints, in any kind, ever.
-Really elaborate punk styles.
-Men who have really skinny legs that make me think they actually have no flesh on their bones under those tight jeans.
-White girls dressing up in those Lolita styles from Japan.
-Or really, white girls dressing up in any way that they got from a weird subculture in Japan.
-People whose mode of dressing themselves is to put as much multicolored crap on their bodies as is humanly possible (most of these people are like, 15 though, so it is rude of me to hate on them).
Other things I don't like today, that aren't related to clothing:
-The fact that I am definitely getting sick.
-The fact that I am terrible at focusing on my writing, even when I really want to get said writing done and like my topic.
-The terrible mopey depresso weather we've been having. What the fuck is up, sunshine?
-Great, someone just pointed out that I even sound sick today. I don't like that none either.
-Seriously, why can I not write for more than 2 minutes at a time? Isn't that clearly just ridiculous?
-My eyes hurt.
-Wah, wah, wah.
So, there you have it! I am sorry that I put these words onto the internet, and that you had to read them.
However, from looking at all these pictures of people (so many, many people!), I've realized that I do not like:
-Animal prints, in any kind, ever.
-Really elaborate punk styles.
-Men who have really skinny legs that make me think they actually have no flesh on their bones under those tight jeans.
-White girls dressing up in those Lolita styles from Japan.
-Or really, white girls dressing up in any way that they got from a weird subculture in Japan.
-People whose mode of dressing themselves is to put as much multicolored crap on their bodies as is humanly possible (most of these people are like, 15 though, so it is rude of me to hate on them).
Other things I don't like today, that aren't related to clothing:
-The fact that I am definitely getting sick.
-The fact that I am terrible at focusing on my writing, even when I really want to get said writing done and like my topic.
-The terrible mopey depresso weather we've been having. What the fuck is up, sunshine?
-Great, someone just pointed out that I even sound sick today. I don't like that none either.
-Seriously, why can I not write for more than 2 minutes at a time? Isn't that clearly just ridiculous?
-My eyes hurt.
-Wah, wah, wah.
So, there you have it! I am sorry that I put these words onto the internet, and that you had to read them.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Discovery.
On my third day in a row of not going to campus, I suddenly discover that I have energy again, want to dance around or play with my dumbbells, and generally do not feel like a waste of space. For the first time in quite a few weeks, it feels like!
Needless to say, I can't wait until this week is over, and my summer legitimately begins.
Right now then, I am trying to come up with two papers. One is going to be a lot of fun, I think (in my way of saying fun). It's about using the "interview", or not using it, as a narrative technique in constructing histories of counter-cultural events. The events in question are Paris May '68, the Tlatelolco Massacre, and AMPO 1960 in Japan. And I'm looking at three different texts, one for each of these events, and their conscious use of the interview format in creating certain types of stories about these different histories. And thinking about how something like the interview can be used to subvert or challenge a more structured narrative, and what the limitations of the format are, etc. Fun? Yes, it is actually a lot of fun, at least conceptually.
The other paper is a crappy thing I never really got a handle on from last quarter, but need to finish this week anyway. It's a short kind of thing, 10 pages on a short story plus some theoretical aspect. I should be able to do it in two days? After I finish the paper I actually like to think about...yes, I can do this, I do believe.
Afterward I get to embrace a little freedom. And reply to a lot of emails.
Needless to say, I can't wait until this week is over, and my summer legitimately begins.
Right now then, I am trying to come up with two papers. One is going to be a lot of fun, I think (in my way of saying fun). It's about using the "interview", or not using it, as a narrative technique in constructing histories of counter-cultural events. The events in question are Paris May '68, the Tlatelolco Massacre, and AMPO 1960 in Japan. And I'm looking at three different texts, one for each of these events, and their conscious use of the interview format in creating certain types of stories about these different histories. And thinking about how something like the interview can be used to subvert or challenge a more structured narrative, and what the limitations of the format are, etc. Fun? Yes, it is actually a lot of fun, at least conceptually.
The other paper is a crappy thing I never really got a handle on from last quarter, but need to finish this week anyway. It's a short kind of thing, 10 pages on a short story plus some theoretical aspect. I should be able to do it in two days? After I finish the paper I actually like to think about...yes, I can do this, I do believe.
Afterward I get to embrace a little freedom. And reply to a lot of emails.
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