Today was a better day. things are looking up! it was rainy and the high of 66 was set very early this morning. the temp. kept falling and it rained off and on all day. gorgeous weather. rainy weather is my favorite to go exercise in because you don't get as hot and sweaty. i rode to work, worked, then took another few miles to finish my day. more miles tomorrow if i feel up to it. my legs are hurting a bit, but with the stretch i think they'll be alright. i'm eating a banana and drinking down some water. i'm doing the infamous close-open so i've got to be back up at 4:15am. but i'm only in until 9am so that's going to be awesome! i'll let you all in on a secret, riding in the rain leaves a big stripe up your butt!

you know what i love? doing nothing productive other than work! that's my day. i chilled with micah most of the day and spent a total of 9.5 hours at work or something close to that. woot! and i'm still going strong! yeah baby! i'm the amazing freakish bionic man. i've been up for 16.5 hours so far and it'll get closer to 20 by the time i'm getting to bed. after reading that you'll never sleep in ever again for guilt at my not sleeping, aye? yeah, i know. so yeah, i have no pictures to post, really, guys. i have no camera and no scanner. i can't show you all those funny pictures from scouts or anything. i know you're sad about that so i'll leave you to weep and listen to 'lilac wine' and 'fear and loathing on cape cod.'

well then, i'm in a much better mood. i spent the night babying my friend kelsey instead of going to my concert. built to spill can suck it, she was down with the stomach flu. i rode over and brought some ginger brew with me. my one lesson for tonight: reed's ginger brew is like god for stomachs, everyone. that's what i brought it to her. she's feeling pretty good and so am i. i love helping people! and i went for a bike ride. i can already feel my legs protesting but i'm doing it again tomorrow regardless of what they want. i have a few weeks until that's my quickest form of reliable transportation so i'd better get into a bit better shape. i love to exercise! really love it. i do it almost daily in some form or another. in a lot of ways my car incident has been a godsend. i never appreciated walking back when i had to but now i love it. i walk to work every opening shift and it gives me the zip to go through my day wide awake and happy. life is so very good!

My manager is the most mean-spirited bitch i've ever known. i've stopped wondering why the israelis bomb palestinians. she's palestinian, by the way. i know i shouldn't generalize but it makes perfect sense to me. she's an evil person. just straight up evil.

for instance. ready? i'll remind you that this is a manager we're talking about, in the past two shifts she's told me to shut up, flipped me off and said screw you!, lectured me about asking before i do or say anything after she lectured me about not letting my shots sit without asking me when i loaded them (this really pissed me off. god damned hypocrit!!), lectured me about why we don't put anything sugary under the steam wands to warm it up (she was thinking chocolate but milk is sugary too!). She also said 'fuck you' when i called her a gaylord, geezer. the list goes on. i'd hate to be her son (and she does have one).

basically she wants free reign to tell you to do whatever and not have you question her. reminds me of the nazi ascention, really. but we defeated her, she's going in a few days. still, she just pisses me off. i may have to cinder block her car...hehehehe. or...or! i could thermite it!! i'm going to go plan evils for her vehicle. lol.

This lady is really ugly! maybe it's all the Campbells Soup she ate as a child. Two points for whoever identifies her! 

it is the kind of day when you just want to find a shady patch under a tree with green grass and sleep. somewhere that allows you to look across the vast expanses of dead grass to see the distortions of heat rising from the tan surface that used to be a lush lawn just weeks before. the slight breeze brings the smell of heat, dry heat, to your nostrils and you find yourself uncomfortably warm despite the shade. it's a breeze that blows hot across your face. feeling how it seeks to singe your lashes you retreat into the smooth tile floors of your home where it's not yet quite so hot and watch with morbid fascination as the day drains all life from the air. nothing will move until the evening. then life is a raucious chorus in the dim light.

This reminds me of home

There are certain smells that just make you think of different things. like my deoderant that i'm using right now until i make my own reminds me of my first trip to mexico. we stayed at this little 3-star hotel on cozumel and i developed a crush on a canadian girl who i then tried to keep in touch with. tragedy struck when her return address was no good on the third letter. i even called the canadian postal service trying to find her real address to no avail.

we'll just say that sometimes i follow through.

overall it wasn't the best experience. Still, there's a certain smell to buildings in mexico, too, that slightly musty smell of salt-air that's worked its way into the plaster and beams. everything smells like the sea mixed with a touch of mouldering leaves. it's one of the most earthy smells i know of. simple, clean, earthy and fabulous. like the smell of your shoes when you're hiking. Then there's delicate freesia from bed bath and beyond. that smell means sara. if i ever smell it, and i pick up even the faintest hint, i get all nostalgic. so when i remember my house here i remember the smell of dust on wood and the faint smell of baked breads. sara's house smells like dog, lol, and moisture. i love that smell. the other morning when i was walking to work you could smell that there were clouds out there in the dark sky of morning. your nose is AWESOME is the moral of this post. i'm going to go be nostalgic now.

here's a bad picture(from my phone) of me as of last night. i realize that no one has any of me more recent than a few months ago so i decided to show the world what my face looks like these days. 

Ecce Homo! Veni tui!

i found the best way to fall asleep ever! being read to. hands down it's the best. the slow purr of another human voice reciting the words of a long dead poet is just the way to get to a REM state. sara read to me last night. i kinda wanted to cry because i missed her so much. but i've only got a few weeks left to worry about such trivial things. then they're be the mundane things and i'll write about them and you'll all be amazed at how lame my life sounds. but i'll be happy. work kinda sucked. having to walk to work at 4:45am just doesn't cut it for me. same thing tomorrow then i'm off for a few days. i dropped my opener for the next two weeks and actually picked up hours, as well. i'll be working a monday closer so one of my workers can play soccer and then he'll cover my 5-9am shift on tuesday. life is looking up!

i've been blogging so much lately it's kinda funny. i think it has a lot to do with the fact that sara's just getting started up so i'm doing what i can to make it easier for her to learn than it was for me, lol. i think i helped a little bit. mostly with picture posting. that took me forever to learn the first time. but here's another day of sun and nice things, it looks like, so i'm going to go eat and enjoy it. i'll talk to you all tonight. vale

here's sara(although her hair is curly in this shot rather than the usual straight)


isn't she hot?



i know, i think so too! lol.

Escaping Reality is an Aerial Proposition


i found this on photo blogger the other night. if i could remember who made it i'd give them credit but alas i forget, it was late. if you happen to be that person i'm sorry for not giving you credit where it's due for this awesome shot.

so just when i thought things were going okay again i did another stupid behind the wheel. this time i was borrowing my mom's car to go to my voice lesson. i hit my dad's car with my mom's car. so now i'll be moving with about a month's rent in the bank. i'm little johnny raincloud right now. life sucks sometimes, you know?

bright lights, you ask? i got an A in nutrition...lol.

sometimes it feels like life falls apart around that single thing you're focused on and before you know it things are just atrophied. it feels like work and the whole driving thing are that balance to actually doing well in school. you can't have it all, i guess.

i just have to laugh at it all in the end, though. it's just so outrageous. 3 cars in 2 weeks. anyone beat that? lol.

i got this from augrah: Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says 'Hey, Rene, how's it goin'? How about a beer?' Descartes replies 'I think not.' He disappears.

this literally makes me laugh for minutes on end. i'm such a philosophy nerd.

look at how tiny! 

our cute new kitten 

I listen to No Knife and wait...Hey!!

If you've never checked out No Knife, do it now! they're fun and cool and i'm really glad they just played. but anyway, i was going to post about how fukking glad i am to be done with nutrition. i got an A. OH!! I got a B in choir, a B in choir! yeah, i know, i couldn't believe it either. it's choir for god's sake. but i suppose i did talk way too much...so maybe it is warranted, but a B...yeah. but i got an A in nutrition so it's all ok. herbology still hasn't posted...damn teacher beign in hawaii and never coming back to let me know my grades. oh hell yeah! now it's time for some really awesome Aquabats!!!!! It's happy time for jeremy! "Lotto Fever" is so devo-style awesome it makes my eyes hurt! mmmmmm. so i am so relaxed and happy, too. just had some real style cider from palisade in western colorado. it's our fruit capital. the city of fruita is out there, that's all you need to know. still can't get my skin to work so i'm not happy. but that's ok. i'll figure it out eventually. i just need to learn to program first. piece of cake...

and i'm just finally branching out in my blog's formatting. using bold, spaces, etc. i'm a boring blogger usually, i'll admit, but that's more because i don't know how to do things than not having plans. i can't even remember how to post pictures anymore. so yeah. bah. i'm going to go enjoy my music and you guys enjoy your night/day depending on where you're at.

Sufjan Stevens

so i found a blog skin that's fucking awesome! and i can't figure out how to make it work. this always happens. i don't understand programming. i don't really understand most computer things outside of what i do fairly often. but i can't figure out how to post the code in and make it work!! it's making me unhappy. poo.

i listen to my music and weep.

thank the good unmoved mover!

if you understand the reference to the philosopher you get my admiration! but on to what i was really happy bout. my compressed course is over tomorrow. i've got 4 questions left on the test and two labs and then i'm done with this damned thing. it was ridiculous. i had 9 hours of nutrition every day this week. but tomorrow it's all over. and life is really really good after my last hour of working on sunday because i can have some down time. until then i'm going to go rip my hairs out one at a time.

So i took the definitive quiz on iVillage today about sara and i and our compatibility. you ready? i knew this already, lol, but we're traditional about our relationship, adventurous and spicy(hehe, she's the piquant one) in the potato sack, and good communicators and compromisers in the speaking sack. yeah baby, i know, we're perfect. or close enough, anyway, we are human after all.

I just got an A in Philosophy!!!! I love EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING!!!! this means that i, the consumate slacker, may have finally broken my ways and probably have pulled a 4.0! the only grades that are outstanding now are choir and herbology, which i think i got an A in, anyway. ok, i'm going to go jump up and down and be happy!!

Dios de Los Muertos(don't know why, but it's that time)

second day down and my brain is fried. i need some burrito and a coke and then some sleep. but i do have a few hw assignments first. evidently i'm writing the first part of my paper tomorrow and i'm not sure how it's going to come out. this has got to be how residents feel when they start pulling shifts at a hospital. i'm taking in a lot of information and trying to incorporate it all. i began doubting if i'd even make the end of class today. but i made it, one more day down and 8 weeks worth of information crammed into my skull. tomorrow is midterm, lol. i'm enjoying myself but i don't know that i'd enjoy doing every class this way. it's too much too fast. perhaps if it were in two or three weeks...yeah, that'd be the one. but at any rate i now have to blow 30 min. before my ride gets here, the joys of not having a car are blooming for me! this is still the first true annoyance with it, other than that schedules have worked out quite well. i'll talk to you all soon, be well until, vale, jeremy

Days of my Lame Ass Life

First day of nutrition is now down. i just have 4 hw assignments to do now, lol. woot! it's looking like it's going to be fun and not incredibly difficult. i just did most of two of the assignments. so life is very good. i've got to go get the book now and work through my diet, lol. we'll see how i'm doing. evidently i need at least 2800 calories a day to maintain my weight. so maybe i should start eating more...we'll see how that goes. other than that my home comp. is down due to a hacker and that fun new virus that sends you hundreds of german messages, lol. my dad is pissed that "his" computer is fried. it's the FAMILY computer, that's what it was bought for, that's why it's at home!!! it pisses me off that he has to have power over EVERYTHING. he's such a raging Republican. Everything Must be Controlled!!! Everything Must be Moral!!!! Everything Must be ORDERLY!!!!!!! BAH!!!!!! so now that i'm pissed off about that i'm going to go ahead and finish my hw. i'll talk to you all soon, have a good time until then.

Ideas for band names? why yes i have some! but don't steal them or i'll sue!!! hehehe.
and they are, without much ado:
the Missing Limbs
Greystone Park
Mary Murray
the Other Side of Love
Modern Art is Sales and Service
Tracks at Dusk
Anyone but Ignorance
Shadows on Howard
the Phantom Bagmen
Redass/Dumbass
Dimebag Easter
Clair and the Matress
One King West
The Homeless Fables
The Bards' Body
The Fourth Day of Spring
Shotgun Self-Portrait

so i spent most of the day playing a computer game. this is really outside of my usual behaviour but i've been obsessed with it lately. i HAD to finish conquering north america, i had to! so i did it. in 18 hours of game play. the last 5 battles or so took less than 30 min. apiece. i just smashed though their cities with bomb ships and then invaded with marines. awesome! overall a good time. i had flanking manuevers, ambushes, naval battles and razed city after city. it was a good time. and now i'm done with that for a week or two, maybe more. i'm thinking it's time to do some reading week after next. this weekend i work and next week i have a class from 9-6 monday through friday. but then i'm done with a 3 credit class. so life is good. other than that i'm just trying to relax a bit and sharpen my mind back up. so far i've done nothing productive since school ended on tue. and that's how i like it. tomorrow or sat. i'm going down to rip out the stereo and take all the valuables out of my car. then she's basically junk. the estimate to get her drivable again is sitting at $5k, or about twice what she's worth. so my little gal has sung her last and it's time to put her to rest. a moment, please... ok. cool. life is proceeding almost as planned, though. now i'm moving the 18th of june and i'm flying back with sara and her family. i'll ship out and pack up my life and call it even. 37 days. i couldn't be happier to say it.

Synth. # X-1

it occurs to me that i need one more synthesis and no one has questions which i can answer! so i'll just do my thing and let that be good enough. really, having read back through these blogs again for the first time in a while, i admit, i'm finding more personality in those people who are blogging. less school and more a journal. for those of us who have done this before that's not a surprise. carolyn has always been like me, putting my life up for show in my blog. she just says what she's thinking, what she's doing, how her writing is going, she shows us her self. i love reading her blog. there's always something new to enjoy. i must say that she's gotten to be a brilliant young writer, just from what i've seen of hers this semester. i'm sitting here trying to think because i'm having a drink, lol, end of the semester and all; this is my last post for a class ever! i've also loved to read alyssa's blog(i do have a bias toward the old honors english crowd, i admit), especially 'mating season.' hilarious. and i feel like i've defended my sex a bit, perhaps. not adequately, but no one can justify the behavior of those who are not like them but are grouped with them. i couldn't account for ralph nader even if i agree with his party as it stands on paper. and gabrielle has been a new addition to my favorites. she's starting to come out in her blog and i love seeing it. her comment from faust was powerful for me, i loved reading it even as i dreaded its end. and you know, i think it's time that this blog ought to end.

synth. # X

well, it's going to be tough to do some synthesizing because there are very few people who have bothered to post lately. so i'll go ahead for the dinner party(we never did get a synthesis assignment for the last one...). Carolyn went a distinctly different route from my own party by inviting many religious figures. in my haste to have a good discussion i completely forgot them...darn. i will say that it fits her perfectly and i think my response fits me really well, too. lots of brain, not a lot of faith. maybe kierkegaard would be fun to have for religious philosophy...i love how she says the John appeared to be Jesus' favorite, so she'd invite him. grade A! i love that anjy took still another approach and invited people outside the scope of the class (namely al, who i think she may have to hots for). and alyssa, who she just loves to have around. she's put herself in a position to have a bit of new and a bit of stable folks, great plan. gabrielle just made me laugh with hers. mostly with the comment about trying to figure out what's wrong with kim jong'il. and super spicy food! hell yeah! spicy, not hot, spicy. there's a difference, dumbass! spicy you still taste the food, hot you just taste the burning. spicy food is what makes the world go round! And she invited her dad, which is about the sweetest thing anyone has concieved of in this class.

one test to go! and it's a group test and my group is the good one. and i only need an A to finish the class with an A. if i do that i'll end up with a 3.86 on the semester, the best grade in my scholastic history. my back is feeling better after yesterday evening's events and i'm actually adjusting to my new world well, all things considered. my plans aren't altered too much and life is continuing as per usual. i just got finished arguing what i thought would happen if we found an alien race that had a divinely inspired text that said roughly the same thing as the Bible. then i attacked what would happen to religion if they had a completely different religion than us that they held was the one truth (like all our religions on this planet). it was a good mental exercise. i had fun. i feel good about my philosophy grade now. so life is good. life is going well and i feel great and i'm almost done with these classes and on to a fresh set, always the best part of the whole school thing for me. i love the first 8 weeks or so of classes, it's the last 4 that kill me. i figure a class out and it gets boring. luckily most of my classes didn't do that this time. so yay! summer! all 10 glorious days of it i get before summer quarter!

so tonight i went down on federal for pho. had a bit, got some boba and came back. now it's cinco de mayo weekend, to remind you all of an essential fact to the rest of the story. pho is down on federal in asia-town just south of mexico city #4(denver's barrio). so the street was PACKED with lowriders, suvs and every other type of a car you can imagine, all blaring bright trumpets over thundering bass. standard mexican display for a major holiday. my sister and i got our boba, walked back to my car and i proceeded, not 10 min. thereafter, to get into my first car accident. i'm developing a guilt complex. i feel bad for hitting the guy. i feel really, really bad for hurting my sister. that's the worst part of the entire thing. i probably won't have a car now and am moving 1500 miles in 5 weeks. i'm pretty well fucked. and it turned out it was my fault; in the sea of tailights, hoodlights, groundlights, headlights and mexican flags i failed to see the only red light that really mattered, which started the whole thing. And it is a terrible feeling seeing someone right in front of you and knowing there is nothing you can do to avoid hitting them. then it's 10 seconds of chaos. Airbag inflates, smoke fills the car and you scream for your sister to get out of the car scared to the point of instinctual reactions that you'll die there. i feel like the worst brother ever right now.

this is what i do late at night when i should be in bed! i think it's officially an addiction.

well, i write again today to make an attempt at a few points of extra credit. I write on the photography of two individuals: Claude Sahon and E.Gilb. These two have work up downstairs at my school. I feel that Claude's work, pictures of dilapidated farm equipment against a stark landscape on the Eastern Plains of dear old Colorado, could indicate the spirit of America receding. The equipment looks like it's from about the turn of the century, perhaps a bit earlier, in a time not long after the great expansion West, that ever present theme in our history. but now we've made it one nation from coast to coast and have lost a reason for why it's one country. the coasts don't like the middle and the middle doesn't like the coasts. it's all a necessity, like that farm equipment. it also shows the transformative nature of cosmopolitan life. since the end of the Wild West as we think of it we've been looking back and forward at the same time. But mostly the effect has been the steady move from the hard life of a farmer to the easier life of a bourgoise, a city dweller. i saw a stat that something like 95% of the U.S. population lives in cities or towns and that the rest are the farmers. it seems to me that we've lost our pioneering soul and have found precious little to replace it. which pulls us into a discussion of E. Gilb's photos. they are from a trip to India. They show various people doing various things, the most interesting to me are the picture of a temple at sunset and the picture of people bathing in the ganges. The wats in this area, the buddhist temples carved into living stone, one of the first civilizations in the world: the area is anchored by tradition. it is said that "60,000 devotees take the holy dip each day in Varanasi." The holy dip is a quick plunge into the ganges; specifically 5 dips is the most auspicious number (Stille). But what these photos show me is that the U.S., as a nation, is still young, still finding out what it's really about. we don't have cultural traditions like india's (the holy dip dates back at least 3,000 years according to Stille) and we certainly shattered what ties we did have with tradition when we started our revolutionary war. our lost state as a culture is clearly reflected in these two sets of pictures.

i took information throughout from this source on india: http://www.science-spirit.org/article_detail.php?article_id=363

a few thoughts by great men

"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." --- Voltaire , Le Sottisier

"Whatever you do, crush the infamy." --- Voltaire

"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer." Kant

"To be beneficent when we can is a duty" Kant

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law." Kant

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." Aristotle

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." Socrates

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. " Socrates

"Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality." Socrates

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." Locke

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. " Descartes

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." Descartes

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another." Descartes

"All I know is I'm not a Marxist." Karl Marx

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." Marx

"Democracy is the road to socialism." Marx

"I remember well when the shadow swept across me. I was a little thing, away up in the hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds between Hoosac and Taghkanic to the sea. In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys' and girls' heads to buy gorgeous visiting-cards--ten cents a package--and exchange. The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card, --refused it peremptorily, with a glance. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

"Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another." Marcuse

"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness . . . they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die." Kierkegaard

"One thing is to suffer; another to graduate and become a professor in someone else's suffering. The first is "the path" the second is "going around it" (wherefore the preposition "around" might serve as a motto for all lecturing and lecture-preaching), and perhaps "going-around" may end in going down and out." Kierkegaard

"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." Marx

Discuss traits that characterize the Enlightenment worldview as reflected in the art/architecture. You may want to discuss how the differences between Enlightenment art and Baroque art reflect differences in how people thought

Human beings were more widely regarded in a positive light in the Enlightenment. Individual thought and the pursuit of happiness were highly praised ideals and aesthetic values. Hogarth's self-portrait shows the ideas of individualism in this age. His art is exactly what he wants to make. and he does it his own damn way. Faith in human progress as a positive force can be seen in the expeditionary feels of the painting by Watteau. As a culmination of the change brought by the Renaissance, the Enlightenment philosophers celebrated the individual and also celebrated greco-roman culture. one such example is the 'death of socrates.' one of the greatest moments of philosophical consistency and a major tragedy of the classical greek period. The individualism stems from the break with the classics even though they were respected. Take "la grande odalisque" for example. While a painting very similar to Titian's "venus" it shows an individual character by placing the subject's back to us. This also followed in sciences, with men like Francis Bacon turning the old Organon on its head and suggesting the modern scientific method. the culture of the day was perhaps a bit arrogant, perhaps a bit right, and mostly all its own.

David Hume and Descartes because these are two of the most eminent philosophers of the Enlightenment period. David wrote extensively about the empirical argument and expanded the work of John Locke. He was eloquent and was a serious skeptic. His most powerful tool against philosophers were the words "Prove it." Descartes is one of the most interesting people in modern history. He changed the focus of philosophy from the nature of everything to the nature of what we know and how we can be sure of what we know. Most of philosophy since his time has been devoted to the exploration of those topics he brought up. To watch these two fantastic minds would be superior. Also, Immanuel Kant would have to be invited. He is the moderator of the two differing theories of the Enlightenment in philosophy:rationalism and empiricism, as well as being the most brilliant thinker of his time. His works are the most influential treatises on ethics, metaphysics and epistemology by any modern thinker. Charles Darwin would be my fourth choice as a brilliant scientist with a grounding in the real but a faith in God. I would like to talk to him myself about what he thought of his own work and whether it goes against the works of God, as he believes in them. Aristotle, Socrates and Plato are three other philosophers(yeah, that puts me up to 7...but it's my party!) i'd love to have at my party for the brilliance they would bring. Also, seeing such giants of thinking square off with modern philosophers who are in their tradition would be superior. I'd love to watch Socrates and Aristotle pick Darwin's mind about his theories. Aristotle would be particularly interested since he was a scientist at heart, as well as a philosopher. It would also be amazing to see them work through the new information. Dinner would be a greek salad to start, beef tenderloin or perhaps sirloin, red wine and a desert of chocolate extasy cake with rosemary whipped chocolate cream mouse on top. you can tell my favorite part of that meal...lol. not too much wine, though, as it would dull the senses.

anvil of stars can wait

final post before the world goes to hell for a few days. i'll be posting other stuff but it's all class related. i've been a slacker for a while and now i need to catch up. and i have two finals tomorrow. and one that evening, but that's yoga, i'll study after i get out in the afternoon. i bruised up my vocal chords last night at choir and seriously sounded just like a frog trying to speak enlgish this morning. my fingers are basically done typing after all the papers i've written and i'm tired as hell. but i'm almost done. less than a week and i'm out for a week or two of summer before summer quarter starts. it's looking like my backpack will be out in june, first week, so that'll be like the plotline of the Inferno: i'll go through hell then come back(only i'll be in an air conditioned car rocketing across the western desert). and now i've got philosophy coming up. maybe i'll go do a class blog for english for the week...i could get it done in 15, maybe...cool. have a great time livin, i will next week, lol. until then be well.

Chicken and Egg? It Kant be!!

Locke:"There is nothing in the intellect which was not before in the senses."
Leibniz's reply: " . . . except for the intellect itself."

my cats are whiny bitches. especially kaeli. she'll pick a fight with jack(a big grey tom) and then she'll start yowling and hissing and making the biggest racket you've ever heard because he starts to just beat up on her. he's thinking to himself, "what a fun playtime" and she's thinking "he's trying to rape me...RAPE!!!!!" it's pretty funny but kinda annoying when they're doing it at 3 a.m. so yeah, i've been a slacker because i've been writing papers, playing computer games and generally waiting for the end of the semester. i've managed to go to most of my classes possible! with the exception of 7 or so in all 6 classes. not too shabby. i'm ready to be done. also, i've worked every day except monday this week and i'm just tired. i can't wait to have a few days off in a row(Gasp!!!!) to chill out and recharge. i haven't had a whole weekend off since spring break. seriously. that was in mid-march. on the plus side, i didn't have to open today for the first time in six months. so yay! and the paper up tonight isn't exactly hard:how would you treat asthma with diet and herbs? i know!wooo woooo! anyway, i'm going back to work and i'll see you all later. ciao.