So. Five days left till the term paper in “Social scientific method” is due. And I was supposed to have started working on it today. But what happened?
Well, I sat down to begin reading some empirics about gender and wage levels and stuff. I think I read perhaps a page or two, but unfortunately I [...]
Posts filed in Procrastination
The art of doing something else than what you should be doing. Interestingly enough, it’s what I’m doing at the moment. You see, I should be reading for a twelve-page political science paper due for delivery in two days, but instead, I’m updating the category descriptions here at my blog. A perfect example of procrastination.
If there is a God of procrastination…
Oh man…
I just watched a couple of minutes of a “60 Minutes” program, where they interviewed Bill O’Reilley (or however in Hel it’s spelled). And even though the interviewer was so critical as to almost be refered to as “hostile”, and in spite of O’Reilley’s obvious vanity and arrogance, the interview managed to create some sympathy [...]
VM2×22
That has got to be the most traumatic season finale I’ve ever seen. This one is a dangerous rival to BS5 and AS5, and I doubt I’ll get much sleep in the three hours remaining before I have class.
Damn, I gotta start downloading season 3 soon.
Funny…
I just got the urge to vacuum the inside of my computer.
Art
Last week or so, I wrote a list of my favourite movies, and one of the movies on the list was “Hero“. I hadn’t seen it in at least a year or two when I put it there, and so I decided to watch it tonight, just to see if it really did deserve the [...]
Wayne’s World
Perhaps one of the silliest movies I’ve ever seen. It’s not a hillarious movie, but it still manages to be entertaining, with some satirical elements here, and some seemingly demented stuff over there.
It has great sentimental value for me, though, so I give it a 5.5/10, to illustrate it’s positive mediocrity. If I’d never seen [...]
12.11.06 — A procrastinator’s tale
In a couple of days, I have the last exam this term, and so I should be repeating stuf for it, so that I’ll stand a better chance of getting at least a C or something. However, I got a real procrastinator’s cramp today, and haven’t been able to do a single conctructive thing.
First off, [...]
Back again…
I’d almost forgotten all about how much it hurts to get a partially frozen, horisontally flying snowflake driven into one’s eye with the force of a fresh breeze. So thank you for returning and reminding me, dearest King Winter.
Anyway, I’m going away for a couple of days, so there won’t be any new posts here [...]
I love my room
Twenty square meters, with enough clear space in the middle so that I can pace if I need to think. I can actually make five long paces without crashing into things, which means that I don’t get dizzy when I pace rapidly back and forth.
There’s a lot of other nice qualities to it, but at [...]
Tonight’s plans:
1. Read the 31 page article “Reinventing Governments: The Promise and Perils of United Nations Peace Building”, praying for a couple of relevant passages to come up in the first couple of pages so that I won’t have to read the entire thing.
2. Define concepts, beginning with the Realist school of IR theory, its views [...]
In the words of Joseph S. Nye, Jr…
I’m currently reading international relations theory for a paper I gotta finish ’till Friday, about whether or not the UN has changed its views on war and peace, recently. And in his “Understanding International Conflicts”, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. writes the following:
“If the League of Nations was designed to prevent World War I after the [...]
Crushed hope — AS2×9 The Trial
At first, when Loki put this on his top 25 Angel episodes list, I was flabbergasted. What was it doing there? Wasn’t it just another episode in the style of Judgement?
But then I actually watched it, and my mind was blown away. First of all, this episode has one of the best dialogues I’ve heard [...]
Categories updated
It never fails. Whenever I have some paper to write, I do everything but work on it. This time, I updated the category descriptions here at Thus Spoketh. Took an hour, too. But if you feel like finding out what kind of posts hide behind the various categories, just hold the pointer of your mouse [...]
“Mass Nerder”
“Don’t got no goatee
Don’t got no tattoo
Don’t got no nose ring
Don’t wanna be like you
See I got these glasses
So I’ll never be cool
Always get my assed kick
When I get to school
Don’t worry about an image
Don’t got no attitude
I know I won’t get laid
If I wont be like you
Don’t got no biceps
Don’t got no pecs
But I’ll [...]
Giddyness
I’m all giddy with expectations. Today, I bought volume 6 of the hardcover collection of Ultimate X-Men, and the guy in the shop said that the other books I ordered (vols. 1-3) would arrive tomorrow (technically today). Additionally, vols. 4-5 should be on their way from amazon.
And I’m really looking forward to reading these things. [...]
The Restoration Of What? The Gold Standard, or Erathia?
Maximum fourteen pages left to read before I can begin writing, and I’m dizzier than ever.
In fact, I am so dizzy that I have started to hallucinate. Whenever I read the phrase “the restoration of the gold standard”, the letters begin floating outwards, transforming themselves into the words “The Restoration of Erathia”, and I can [...]
Mmmm.
Blueberry tea. Is anything as good? Nice words, too.
The subway comes back to bite you on the ass — BS7×14 First Date
Back in season 2 or three (I think), there was a rather Spike centred episode, in which we learned where Spike got his leather coat from: A black Slayer he met on a NYC subway in the 70s. And in this episode, Principal Wood’s identity is revealed, and it turns out he’s the son of [...]
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