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So I handed in a completely crappy mid-term for my Husserl course today. The irony being that I know Husserl pretty well. Maybe the professor will have mercy on my poor over-worked soul (or maybe everyone else will crap-out and mine will look okay). Oh well, no time to worry about it--I have a presentation on The Crisis of the European Sciences as well as another on aspect seeing in Wittgenstein next week to work on. This semseter is killing me with the complete lack of consistency.
I am very excited as SPEP (The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) is being held in Memphis this year. It begins on Thursday morning and lasts until Sunday as it is the largest conference in "continental" philosophy in America (and most likely in the world as the Collegium is the only one that even rivals it). As an upshot, Galen is going to be here as of tomorrow at 5 and there is apparently going to be some kid sleeping on my sofa for the weekend--a fact I am not happy about at all (Arlette agreed to it without consulting me and then after I told the student in charge of coordinating the situation that I didn't want it to happen, she still told the guy he could). I just have too much to do besides driving around some kid who wanted to come to the conference. Whatever.
Pretty exciting news: I ran my dissertation topic by Len this past week and he was very excited about the project in general , but a little wary of its scope. This has always been my problem, thinking to big for the space alotted. Of course, I think I can write what need to be written on the subject in 300 concise pages, which is a perfectly acceptable dissertation length. Now I just need to clear it with Robert, who is sure to disapprove given that I don't want to do a single-figure based dissertation. We'll see what happens because this is probably one of three schools where I could actually write this--Emory and maybe Stony Brook being the others.
In general, I'm feeling pretty good about life, haven't been letting my being overburdened get me down, etc. I just got this kick ass Otis Redding album that I've been listening to a lot. Other than that, I've not much to say for myself just now...
I am very excited as SPEP (The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) is being held in Memphis this year. It begins on Thursday morning and lasts until Sunday as it is the largest conference in "continental" philosophy in America (and most likely in the world as the Collegium is the only one that even rivals it). As an upshot, Galen is going to be here as of tomorrow at 5 and there is apparently going to be some kid sleeping on my sofa for the weekend--a fact I am not happy about at all (Arlette agreed to it without consulting me and then after I told the student in charge of coordinating the situation that I didn't want it to happen, she still told the guy he could). I just have too much to do besides driving around some kid who wanted to come to the conference. Whatever.
Pretty exciting news: I ran my dissertation topic by Len this past week and he was very excited about the project in general , but a little wary of its scope. This has always been my problem, thinking to big for the space alotted. Of course, I think I can write what need to be written on the subject in 300 concise pages, which is a perfectly acceptable dissertation length. Now I just need to clear it with Robert, who is sure to disapprove given that I don't want to do a single-figure based dissertation. We'll see what happens because this is probably one of three schools where I could actually write this--Emory and maybe Stony Brook being the others.
In general, I'm feeling pretty good about life, haven't been letting my being overburdened get me down, etc. I just got this kick ass Otis Redding album that I've been listening to a lot. Other than that, I've not much to say for myself just now...