[a rant nobody cares about]
What the HELL is it with self-righteous bastards in the classroom? Part of the reason I came to St John's was because the impression I got was that pretentiousness was limited because it was open discussion and the point was critical analysis of the works. But when you spend half the class arguing with someone who is at first insistent that oh, we aren't possibly smart enough to critique a work, so we should just take it as law and discuss that, and then drama queen-ish by putting words in people's mouths and saying WELL OBVIOUSLY IT DOESN'T MATTER SINCE THIS IS SUCH A USELESS BOOK, which is utter crap, and then giving the classroom the silent treatment along with the look that YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS. I'm sorry, I know Hegel is millions of times smarter than me, but the truth is, he was a prejudiced bastard, and the fact that he talks about "negroes" like they're all cannibals and therefore sub-human and then completely dismisses the better part of the world just to make everything fit his "universal theory" means that O HAY THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT THEORY. Lobachevsky poked holes in Euclid's theories, not in an attempt to disprove him, but in an attempt to futz with the system. What's wrong with doing that? What's wrong with saying, hey, maybe the Greeks were just as dependent on nature to live their lifestyle as the Mongolians were, and maybe there is something that's a different kind of freedom inherent in living a nomadic lifestyle as opposed to a sedentary lifestyle? WHY MUST YOU BE SUCH A EUROCENTRIC #$()&*%$()@????
Ahem. Sorry. Just needed to get that out. At least now after talking to one of my classmates, I know I'm not the only one.
That aside, my PRECEPT looks to be awesome. Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Plutarch, Livy, Beethoven, Duke Ellington....yeah. Awesomeness.
News piece #2: I am being a pig today. TOO MUCH FOOD. Rage + bingeing should = PMS, only I just started BC and I'm in the middle of my pill pack so that doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm not fixed to it yet. Work, little hormones, work!
News piece #3: TEZUKA AND FUJI ARE FINALLY IN BED TOGETHER. Gaaaaaaah.