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why can't I be complacent?

"Skepticism about our knowledge of others is typically accompanied by complaceny about our knowledge of ourselves." - Stanley Cavell

My latest little aphorism from my gem of a book: The Claim of Reason.

However, my problem now is that I'm devoting too much time to this class to keep up with my analysis of 19th century America. Don't get me wrong, I love this stuff. Culture/Politics/Rhetoric...all the things that make people awesome or terrible. But again, when I find myself gerimandering the hours of my days into a very unbalanced map composed of "reading...reading....reading....reading...reading. eat. reading....reading...", I do at times think to myself:

life is too short

My point: I want (need) to drop Rhetoric of the Guilded Age. The only sad part I can think of...I will still probably attend many of the lectures.

Given all these turns of events, I've been uselessly planning my future:

Summer: take one rhetoric class (Only one!) to make up for my dropping of this class...if I don't have an apartment this summer...Sean...could you use a subletter? Gah, or I just need to start looking into alternative housing.

Fall: Go to japan....or stay here and start my honors thesis...or do both (or is that just insanity (yes, I do believe that would be))...[i also need to get accepted/rejected first].
Other People's (not everyone) Logic: "are you crazy? go to japan! baka!"
My logic: japan will probably always be there (98% sure); honors thesis only comes once.

This is also genius...for those asian who have yet to see it. (and non-asians...whatever that means).


what I wish i could do:


　 ＿＿ 　　　　 　〃
　 ｀ヽ,　｀ヽ 　　　《
　 　,.' -◎-ヽ 　　》
　＜(　´･ω･)＞〃 ::I put on my robe and wizard hat::
　 ⊂ ＼ ／ つ. /
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　　（_＿）＿） /

Comments

  1. Carrie9:26 AM

    oh man...you are so obsessed with that video. and this summer is going to be off the heezy.

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  2. Unknown8:55 PM

    I think honors thesis...

    it gives me more time to take more Japanese...and then I can come visit you and shoot... I'm going to buy a lot of stuff there. I need to save money for that trip. Give a couple of years ;)

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  3. Anonymous12:40 AM

    and you can thank the genius yellow person who sent you the video in the first place =p

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