Post - Educationalism

"To walk in the direction of one's dream is necessarily to risk the dream" ( Pursuits of Happiness , 100). That said, what is one to do if that person is a dreamer? Which dream(s) is(are) worth pursuing? I don't want to say I've come to a crossroad, but sometimes when in the midst of everything that is happening around me, I find it hard to approach the task at hand because of the crossroad I can see ahead of me. For this reason, I hate stories. I hate that people think of their lives as stories. Stories are so uni-historical, singular, linear. I've often wanted to live a Borges text. Multiple threads of time and history, intersecting and diverging within the same space of a text. I hate having to cut off these alternate times, these alternate histories. I guess this is my fear of having to live out the wrong one, if there exists such a thing. ------------------------------------------- I'm at home. Physically and mentally. It's nice to be a...

Notes to a slightly deranged self: 1. Read Huxley's "Doors of Perception" 2. Japanese H.W. 3. Japanese Composition 4. Seriously start research paper (rough draft by Apr 12) 5. Watch Cassavetes' Faces 8. Reread The Claim of Reason 6. RELAX!!! (I mean it! seriously [seriously, I'll do my best!]) 7. stop talking to self

So I'm watching all these films for one of my rhetoric seminars. "These" is refering to the 1930-40's genre of "Comedy of Remarriage." All those greats by Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Hepburn, and so on... In discussing the term 'genre,' one of the philosophers we're reading has noted an interesting thread that ties all the films together: "As if there may be a bickering that is itself a mark, not of bliss exactly, but say of caring. AS if a willingness for marriage entails a certain willingness for bickering. This strikes me as a little parable of philosophy, or of philosophical criticism." (Pursuits of Happiness, 86) ** 2 hours later ** meh...i got distracted by my room mates playing NES games......i'll finish this later

To the person who took my ipod in dwinelle on Tuesday (Feb 28th): Please Return it. Now that I don't have music to listen to while studying, I think I've developed ADD. It's been a 'meh' week. Japanese has exausted me lately as I try and deal with people who don't belong in our class; kids who waste my time. And I need to pick an object of criticism to focus on for my seminar thesis. I'm frantically watching movies to try and find something. Know any good animes/movies that you would characterize as a 'comedy of remarriage'? (besides of course, the 1940's movies that gave rise to the genre). It's late...