Move over Tocqueville!

I’m thesising away, trying to get thirty pages worth at least on paper so I have plenty of time to edit, move around paragraphs, make things click, etc. I have some major reading on the state of exception that I have thus far neglected to do, which is somewhat of a nagging-stressing thing. It should still turn out okay though, I think.

I have been spectacularly anti-social since the end of classes. First, it was that I had final papers due earlier than most people. Then, everyone else was working on final papers, and I was done. Then, my parents were here. Then, I just felt very anti-social, and holed up and was unproductive. I feel much better now though.

I am looking forward to my IR focused classes this quarter. I’m officially signed up for Terrorism, but I know I’m going to have to petition to stay in anyway. I’m hoping the fact that my thesis title includes the phrase “war on terror” and uses the word “terrorism” about 100 times will earn me a spot.

Grades are supposed to be up, but I”m still missing a grade. I know there’s no way I got an incomplete and/or failed, so I’m wondering what gives. Okay, back to work. Have I mentioned I love Carl Schmitt? He’s such a drama queen! In bemoaning the possible rise of unipolar world order he says “the last round, the final step, in the terrible rings to a new nomos of the Earth!” Yeah, take that liberal internationalism!