What is this feeling, so sudden and new?
(Ten points to the first person who can tell me where that title comes from.)
This is a new experience for me. Not that I was always so motivated before, but I had a sense of obligation, of not wanting to let myself or others down, that pushed me through the unmotivated stages satisfactorally.
But now. I'm experiencing a severe lack of motivation, just when my motivation and obligation should be at its peak--it's down to the wire! I'm having a very hard time getting started on my biblical foundations paper. Which is due Friday. Which should be 12-14 pages, at least.
I've done lots of research. And yet I feel I should be doing more. But the pressing time limits preclude any more research. And so I feel somewhat paralyzed. Where do I begin?
Why am I so adverse to writing this paper?? I'm even excited about the topic--although its breadth scares me a bit.
Ok, just sit down at the computer and start with an outline... it'll come...
ICS is humbling in more ways than one. In the end, I hope I will look back on this and reminice about how this time in my life taught me something important about myself. Something. Anything!
posted by sara without an 'h' @ 10:27 PM
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17 Comments:
Title: Galinda sang it in the song "What is this feeling?" from Wicked.
Also, I believe it is spelled "reminisce".
And finally, FINISH YOUR PAPERS! (and maybe I'll do the same.)
ten points to Chris. eleven, for such specificity.
and thank you for the spelling correction.
Chris, what is your deal with standardized spelling lately? Standardized spelling is a way of maintaining class standing as well as a way to marginalize minorities. Think of who gets to write the dictionaries: the bourgeois! (Maybe I've been reading a bit too much Marcuse, but this totally makes sense to me right now). That all being said, I made sure to spell check this post.
One think I noticed today, however, is that computer spelling software has problems with words like "consumerist" in nearly all of its forms except for "consumer". Interesting...
Sara, since this is your blog, what is the basis of the points system? Is eleven points a lot?
Also, very nice work on your links to other blogs. How long did it take you to arrange them all so neatly?
So, Jeff, if correcting spelling is a classist exercize, then surely correcting correcting can't be much better... Of course my comment is not meant to be a third level of correction as much as a reflection on the irony with the goal to promote reflection...
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Jeff,
Sure, standardized spelling is a product of the bourgeois. But so are probably all artifacts of civilization. As Benjamin notes, every document of civilization is at the same time a document of barbarism.
But I would happily leave your misspellings alone if you were attempting to subvert the status quo, instead of just not knowing how to spell the word.
And don't say that you actually were attempting to subvert the bourgeois standards, because you live a comfortable bourgeois lifestyle and there are much better ways to subvert these standards (perhaps you should stop sitting on your Ikea furniture while sipping the finest of Sherry).
So don't pretend that your ignorance is an attempt to subvert the bourgeois
I believe you meant "one thing I noticed today" rather than "one think I noticed today".
Wow. ICS people commenting on your blog. I suddenly feel intellectually inferior.
Wait a second, no I don't. I think you have to be pretty smart to write at a 3rd grade reading level.
So there!
Speaking of writing... write your paper!
I actually prefer to read at a 3rd grade reading level. My favorite is "The Beast in the Bathtub" by Kathleen Stevens where Lewis tries to convince his parents that there is a beast in the bathtub. Lewis and the Beast get into all sorts of mischief, performing hijinks, tomfoolery, shenanigans, and ballyhoo.
The real twist comes at the end when Lewis' parents tuck him into bed and there is no beast in the bathtub, he is instead under Lewis' bed!
I guess "The Beast in the Bathtub" is geared more toward kindergarten reading level. It is listed as "kindergarten and up". But I know that I still liked it in 3rd grade. Heck, I still like it now!
Reading levels, another attempt by the bourgeois to exclude the minority.
I guess this goes to show that I am in the same place as you are Sara. I too have no motivation to write my papers.
Why go to ICS when you can go to the VU. For those that don't know that acronym it stands for the Vrije Universiteit in AMSTERDAM, NL. Think about it, who did ICS have to rely on for getting degrees approved for the last umpteen years? . . . The VU.
OK, so this is somewhat self defeating because I'll probably end up getting my PhD from ICS but for now I feel like sticking it to the ICS people. VU = better than ICS
And now I'm also going to get to writing my papers which I have procrastinated on long enough :)
That's alright with me if you "feel like sticking it to the ICS people."
What is your area of study in at the VU? Mathematics? When you write that "VU = better than ICS", is this a theorem or a conjecture. If it is a theorem, I would be interested in the axioms that you assumed and deduced from that makes this proposition necessarily true in all cases.
Or is this just a conjecture that has not been formally proven under the rules of mathematical logic?
I guess I would have to take your word for it, because I'm not a mathematician.
But I can count, and by my count I'm still the only one on Sara's blog with 11 points.
Wow. I don't think I've ever had 11 comments on one post before. And it wasn't even controversial! In fact, it was a rather boring post. I suppose I have Chris to thank for garnering all these responses. Thank you for making me feel popular, Chris. Even though I know you're just procrastinating.
And you still have 11 points.
can I get 13 points for being the lucky number thirteen post, and the first one to wish you a happy birthday on your blog?
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OK. Je vais parler en francais, pour que le monde ne puisse pas corriger mon ecriture:
BONNE FETE, SARA! (et je n'ai pas besoin de points en disant ca:))
je t'aime...ann.
You may not need points for saying happy birthday, but you want them because at the end of each semester your points can be used as fun money at the Sara store. You can "buy" foam gliders, and slinkies, and pencils, and snap bracelets, and whatever else you want. It's the coolest!
Points update:
-13 points to Yvana for her creativity and for being the first to wish me happy birthday.
-10 points to Ann for writing in French and for calling me yesterday
-5 points to ME for understanding Ann's French (with the help of Yvana)
-6 more points to Chris for having the most comments on one blog entry: six!
Snap bracelets. That's what you may redeem your points for at the end of this school year! (Thanks, Chris.)
I am the King of point getting!
I didn't want to point this out, because I only point out things like this and misspellings to take a friendly jabs at friends, but Ann wrote in French, as you indicated, but she said that she was going to speak in French; "Je vais parler en francais" (I will speak in French) as opposed to "J'ecrirai en francais" (I will write in French). But I don't speak or write in French (except for what I wrote above, but it's probably not grammatically correct), so this is probably wrong.
But again, I am the King of point getting!
I'm adding this comment late to artificially drive up the comment total to go for the record and make you feel cool. Not that yer artificially cool. Yer just...cool. Crap. I just took down the average intelligence of these comments by a substantial ammount. Gotta go.
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