brain poo

in case you're interested

ibid14 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:37:16 GMT

For some reason, I made a journal last (academic) year. Well, actually, I didn't make it. A friend of mine made it and decided he loathed Livejournal. Being the huge Satanic Verses fan I am, I told him not to delete it; I would commandeer it. (The username is Chamcha, a character from The Satanic Verses.) And so I have. Exactly why I continue to post in that journal and neglect this one is something that may be deemed undecidable. Check it out at chamcha. This journal schizophrenia will probably come to a halt at some point. I don't know when.

October 19

ibid14 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:42:33 GMT

That's when the Shins are coming to Raleigh. I really want tickets...badly. All the ones I've seen are really expensive, though. Maybe there will be student tickets.

I've started playing poker again, and I've gotten much better. I used to have a problem folding...not so good.

And what is up with this weather? It's been about 10 degrees above average every day for the past month. Does this mean we'll have a cold winter...or a hot one...?

Contemporary Ethical Theory with Dr. Hill is even more amazing than I had anticipated. What a genius...

My mom has decided to adopt another border collie...whoa. Lucy is pretty crazy herself. I'm not sure how she's going to handle a second one. She also wants to open a Subway, but only until she makes enough to open a few pizza places. o_O

5 things

ibid14 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:10:50 GMT

1. I'm sick of my courses already, and the semester has barely begun. This isn't a good thing.

2. My left middle finger got crushed in my closet door today. It hurts like a mother, and there's a bad bruise under the nail. I hope it doesn't come off...It's already really hard to type. My middle finger types d and e. E is obviously often used. I use d a lot, too...my last name...the days of the week...dear sir...dag-nab-it.

3. I got a second job grading papers for MATH 232. (Bi?)Weekly paychecks will be looking nice.

4. I'm debating about whether even to bother trying out for mock trial. I'm already taking 18 hours, plus auditting ethics bowl (which itself is a 3-hour course), teaching piano lessons, and working two jobs. Granted, they're slack as mess. I dunno... Interest meeting tomorrow. I better decide soon.

5. No meal plan is killer. I've never been hungrier for longer periods. Today I had a bagel, a quesadilla, and some noodles with broccoli. godddd

I wanna be bigger, stronger, drive a faster car.

almost

ibid14 — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:12:25 GMT

I can't wait to go back to Chapel Hill. Even though I just got back from summer school... Speaking of which, Discrete Math ended very well. I dare say I got the high A...a 99. Maybe someone else got a 100. I doubt it. =P My love of math has been rekindled. How sweet. So, I've added a real analysis and complex analysis to my course load for next semester (MATH 521 and 523). Enough about math.

In philosophy land, I've ventured back to ethics and intend to remain there. Moore's Principia Ethical and its critics' (miserably failing) essays have convinced me of non-naturalism as well as, at least to some extent, intuitionism.

I'm not really sure what else I should include in this post. Working at the pool is as boring as ever. Three more days...

I'm becoming more and more misanthropic every day. The truth is: people disgust me. I used to be somewhat comforted by the idea that there were always going to be adults and other people I could admire to be comforted by. No more. I hate the people I work with. They steal. They lie. Perhaps my hate for them is equally bad. I don't care.

long overdue

ibid14 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:22:25 GMT

I'm back in Chapel Hill, and summer school officially blows. I'm taking discrete math, and so far it's exactly like the philosophy class I took last semester in logic. (not fun) The housing situation also blows, but only mildly. I'm about 10 miles away from campus, which translates into about a 25-minute drive. Add my job at the library that begins at 9, and you've got yourself a crappy day. Anyway, as for the housing situation, I'm staying in this secluded house owned by middle-aged painter/hippies. They're in Europe right now. There's this Korean lady living here, too. I guess she's a family friend? She keeps turning off the air conditioner. And it's really hot outside. Weird...

The 2008 presidential candidates are extremely disappointing. I have no idea whom to vote for. Clinton...Well, she'd be a co-president with Bill, and I really don't want to see that happen. And I just don't think Edwards has enough experience. I guess Obama doesn't either.

Politics shmolotics. I've been reading Aristotle's Metaphysics lately. Ethics and I are taking a break. It's a good thing, though. I've also read some Locke and Hume. That whole English empiricism fad is pretty whack. I need to read some Descarte and Hegel next.

The Principle of Noncontradiction is not the most fundamental principle of logic. Instead it's the principle that for any proposition P, P either is or is not. Then we can deduce -(P and -P), given a few other assumptions.
More to come on that later.

three?!

ibid14 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:18:18 GMT

There is only one thing that could warrant a third post in one day.

I got into Contemporary Ethical Theory. Hello Dr. Hill.

978007331271 DISCRETE MATH & ITS APPL

ibid14 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:21:01 GMT

It's Brauer, and I'll be working there starting June 21.

I just bought the book for discrete math. It is huge, heavy, and $151.21.

do it again

ibid14 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:37:04 GMT

Why is Nada Surf so amazing?

I managed to add 0.9 miles to my running distance last night. I'm still 1.1 miles from my goal, though. I guess we'll see how it goes tonight.

Physics is over. I don't really want to talk about it. I don't really want to even think about it. In fact, I don't really want to think about anything.

I'm considering changing my minor in math to a B.A. It only requires 2 more math courses than the minor and 3 other separate courses. I don't really understand the supplementary education requirements anyway, but I guess I would have fulfilled it with my B.A. in philosophy. ...? Hope so.

Hopefully I'll have a job lined up for summer and fall by the end of today. I have an interview at the math and physics library. Brauer? Brewer? I don't even know. I actually already had the interview a few months ago, but I wasn't planning on going to summer school then. Now she'd like to re-evaluate me I suppose. (?)

I had the weirdest dream last night. I won't describe it in details, but it seems I have a subconcious hate for poverty-stricken people, to the point of murder? Yes, there was this family who kept asking if they could spend the night in my house. Eventually I got sick of it and killed them with one of those small garden rakes.

caprice

ibid14 — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:46:33 GMT

Summer is getting closer. Freshman year is almost over. I couldn't be happier. Yeah, this has been a good year. It's time to move forward, though.

It looks like I won't be working as a lifeguard anymore. My mom has decided not to renew our membership, and lifeguards who are members are given priority over non-members. That's okay, too. I wouldn't get to work enough anyway. I've called a few law firms as well as The NC Court of Appeals for jobs/internships. Hopefully something will turn up there.

I'm still not sure what I'm going to take next semester. Symbolic logic, Beg. acc. Spanish, Inter. Chinese, and Legal writing are all definitely in. I really need a second philosophy course, though...very badly, particularly an ethics course. Contemporary ethical theory is already full. That really sucks.

You know how there can be this one thing you really want, and you're willing to do almost anything to get it? But it doesn't matter. It's something unattainable. It's something designed for desire, not attainment. And, were it attainable, it would lose whatever value that made it desirable in the first place.

vomit

ibid14 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:48:27 GMT

I've created a different blog where I'll keep all my philosophy-related posts. I'll still use this for everyday stuff, though.

this counts as march 30

ibid14 — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:09:15 GMT

I went to Bali Hai today and got some to go. Delicious. However, I broke my vegetarianism. But since I had put myself under this obligation, I had the right to remove myself from it. It will start again now.

I'm going to spend as much time as possible in the sun tomorrow. Arboretum? Quad? Behind Teague? So many choices.

朴老师叫我们写一篇日记，所以我正在写。虽然她觉得我们字懂得够，但是我只知道大约四五百个。此外我的语法不太好。我会试试看。看吧！我觉得我写的这些字已经足够了吧。再见！

coincidence abounds

ibid14 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:49:40 GMT

Odum Village apartments ~~remind me of~~ seem like a scene from an 80s porno. Two windows with closed aluminum blinds, white cinder block walls. Very 80s. Very porno.
It belongs to Julia, Julia R., who incidentally and remarkably resembles Julia Roberts. It wasn't a bad night.

King Kong, however, was a bad movie. Skull (S-K-U-L-L): native word for head bones.

I drink way too much diet Sunkist. Don't judge.

Spinoza is crazy. I guess that makes me crazy, too.

like old times

ibid14 — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:41:20 GMT

Julia and I entered a spades tournament Wednesday night. We didn't win, but the games were only to 300, and nills still counted as 100, which is very lame. I had fun, though.

Spring break at the beach with Sam and Julia has officially been canceled, for me at least. Oh well. I'd rather not talk about it. Looks like I'll spending it at home, reading Kant and Spinoza and Moore. Maybe not too bad...

I'll be living in Teague again next year, first floor, same roommate. I'm really looking forward to it. I kind of want to live off campus, but maybe one more year on campus isn't a bad thing.