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So this is what the cool kids are doing? Posting pictures of awesome cds they get?

I really want to like the show Girls, but I just don’t like Hannah. She’s too spoiled and entitled. I know in a way her, and the other girls on the show, are not the usual selfless paradigms that you see on television. This is meant to show something more real, because sometimes real people are insecure and petulant and selfish. But that hint of realism is what bothers me. Are kids that age, and they are still kids, really that spoiled and entitled? That’s a bit depressing. 

Tonight’s activity: Grabbing as many academic articles about Vampires, monsters, and  Young Adult Dystopias as I can before my JSTOR access expires.

Just got a call from my mother, she was asking when my graduation ceremony was and how she could get tickets. I had to tell her that it was last friday and that I had skipped it. She was mortified, for some reason. I said that she and my father had never asked me about the graduation. She said that she had been afraid to, thinking that I would object and not let them go (not really that far from the truth), and that they had been waiting for me to mention it. I said that it really wasn’t a big deal, and that I didn’t see what was worth celebrating. She said that she went to my sister’s graduation and they were proud of her. Well, my my sister went to an Ivy League school and graduated with honors, and went on to go to grad school at one of most prestigious schools on the planet: Oxford. I just went to the school down the street and took almost 10 years to get an associate’s degree and another 4 to get a bachelors in a rather useless field: Literature.

I don’t really feel like college is some great accomplishment. It’s just something I got through. I do feel bad about hurting my mother’s feelings like that. But it’s her fault for not asking about it. True, I would have resisted going. But I probably would have relented eventually.

Congrats! You should have waited until exactly ten seconds before. That’s the true heart of the procrastinator. :-p

Thanks. Now I have to actually find something to do with my life.

I thought about waiting until the last few seconds, but the dropbox system at my school is not that reliable. Sometimes it crashes or freezes up. I thought it best to just send it in with a few minutes to spare.

Continuance of a theme

The paper portion of my take-home final for my last class was assigned back in January.

It is due in 7 minutes.

I completed all other assignments for all other classes 12 days ago.

I started research for this paper 6 hours and 49 minutes ago.

I started writing this paper 3 hours and 10 minutes ago.

I finished this paper 18 minutes ago.

I submitted this paper 11 minutes ago.

I feel like I should have cut it closer, just on principle.

This is an appropriate finale to my undergraduate college career. 

Interesting BBC podcast about the sinister and often indignant creep of mediocrity in writing and education. I’m a glad that I grew up in a world before the internet where people read books and challenged themselves to learn things, instead of getting annoyed with people who use too many obscure words. 

(Source: BBC)

Probably one of the best mash-up videos I’ve ever seen. Cannot watch this too many times.

Scenes from the ballet The Red Shoes expertly put to Joy Division’s She’s Lost Control. 

Blondie never fails to cheer me up when I’m in a melancholy mood

My philosophy teacher just thanked me for all my thoughtful comments during class and said that I added a lot to the experience.

I almost regret tearing him a new asshole on the evaluation form.