being & nothingness, ~15 pages
number and numbers, ~15 pages

books i am going to (try to) read this summer:

Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze
Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
Number and Numbers, Alain Badiou
The Republic, Plato
The Phenomenology of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Coming Community and Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben ( Read more... )

okay, maybe not so much the profit part ( Read more... )

so i finally got the letter from st. john's telling me they got dr. edwards' letter of recommendation. which means they have everything. which means my application is complete. which means it can be sent to the admissions committee for review.

which means i should get their decision in about two weeks.

yipe!

i guess i don't actually talk about that very often, do i? i was going to do this all in one post, but it got too long. so here's part one.

work

as of monday i am legally employed by my parents' business, design paving. i've been working for them under the table for about three years now--mostly doing (computer-generated) mock-ups of potential ( Read more... )

so i think i am in love with obama's k-12 education plan, and i'm only on like the third paragraph. the (snarky) first sentence about assessment--"Obama believes we should not be forced to spend the academic year preparing students to fill in bubbles on standardized tests"--is already a winner for me, but this is what really made me swoon (emphasis ( Read more... )

i am in an inexplicably good mood. perhaps rum, fluoxetine, friends, and thoughts of the love of a lifetime are enough? i suspect--maybe, just maybe--it is so ( Read more... )

in roughly chronological order. see if you can guess which are which ( Read more... )

so, um... i have an audition with jeopardy ( Read more... )

1) everything is a) worth thinking about and b) utterly baffling ((at least) at first). (these are related.)

2) i actually want to work. to write. to think. you might suppose said desire would be not only a necessary but also a sufficient condition for my getting work done. you would be wrong ( Read more... )