Posted by Rachel Not Rebecca On November 23rd, 2009
Work = busy. I have no time/brainpower to put together a coherent entry, so I thought I would copy/paste some bits and pieces of drafts I have started and not published over the past month. I cannot even guarentee complete sentences.
-Doing all this political minded readnig lately makes me want to re-read Allan Blooms The Closing of the American Mind. If you are in academia, or even just thinking of going into it, I cannot recommend it enough. A professor gave it to me right after I transferred to Skidmore, after hearing about my experience at Hampshire College. It is definitely one of those books that made me question a lot of what I thought I believed or helped me clarify a lot of things for myself. The problem with re-reading anything is that I have about 1,001 books that I haven’t read, and should read.
-My life has also come to spending a Saturday night having dinner with my parents and their friends. But that was actually ok, because my Pseudo-Cousin Aimee is in the same position as me. Of course, she’s just out of college, so she can move back in with her parents and not look like a loser, but whatever. We didn’t used to get along for more then 10 minutes at a time when we were younger, so it is nice that we are friends now. We bemoaned the patheticness of our Saturday night and watched old episodes of Degrassi. I freaking LOVE Degrassi and their were episodes of Season 4 that I had never seen.
-For one, I would have gone for international relations as a sub field instead of political theory. Political theory is a horrid little sub field. They (the royal they) have decided that all the Important Questions have been done to death and now the field has just kind of turned on itself and there is a lot of political theory on how to do political theory, or why to do political theory, or if we should do political theory. And to some extent, you are limited by what is trendy in your field at the time. I wish I had known that better when I applied.
-I am somewhat obsessed with weather phenomena. I love big storms. So I hate it when BIG STORMS are predicted and wind up being nothing. We were supposed to get massive rainstorms here due to Hurricane Ida moving up the east coast, but it has failed to affect North Jersey. Down the shore, it is of course flooding, because idiots build their houses on the sandbar. Here it’s just gray and a little bit rainy.
-Going through the draft folder in gmail, I came across a conversation I had with David on The Morning After. (No, not that kind of morning after) “I did something really stupid,” I started. He named off a few things, because he was sure it involved a boy. (Usually, when I do something stupid, it involves a boy) It didn’t involve a boy.
