Lots of protesting all over the state today. And tonight there's a group of students and staff occupying the UCSC Grad Student Commons. Me, I'm finding it to be ten pm already and I'm still at my fucking desk. Writing about crowds, and in particular Benjamin on the revolutionary crowd.

@#$! OFF

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SERIOUSLY.

Edited to add:

GOING BACK TO BED.

I want pear cider. Or beer fait chez les moins!In other news, this is dragging on, this revising. Everything must be completed by the end of October (the latest one committee member can have it in time for me to make any FINAL FINAL revisions. Must file by the first week of December. As the fangirls say, laskdfjal;skdjfl;asjdf!!eleven!q!1 (And I'm ( Read more... )

Ok, sat myself down to the completion of revisions of ch 1, and moi je m'en fou. Can't get it up, as it is crudely (yet accurately!) put.

Also: it is disheartening to realize that all the damn arguments have already been made. Twenty-five years ago! Remind me again why I'm bothering?

Bleah.

It occurs to me that I have actually forgotten more about L’Ève future than all y'all will ever know.

The day is ticking away too slowly and the sentences I keep beginning keep dissipating before they finish. I take breaks and read other, related things, thinking I might become somehow more focused thereby, but my mind still runs to ANYTHING-BUT-L'EVE-FUTURE. Can my dissertation be just four chapters ( Read more... )