There's a party in the cupboard
Dear Jake: those pictures were scary. Also, I think you should update your seal blog.
Dear Tom: Ah yes, the tan M&Ms guy. St. John's College, huh? Isn't that a Catholic community college somewhere in south Florida? How many Nobel winners does it have, again?
About free will...well, posting about it would be quite a change from the usual fare of me embarrassing myself in a million and one different ways. And I don't know if anyone out there would be interested other than us Great Books nerds. But, to answer your question, I'm not really focusing on theism. I'm actually really interested in biopsych and "biological determinism," and I'm doing the great books stuff as a supplement, which is not really what the Fundamentals classics fetishists want, but hey, I'm renegade. But specifically, I'm interested in addiction of all sorts, and psychopathology, and stuff like that. And I don't believe that we're as in control of our actions as we'd like to think--although to what extent, I don't know. Trying to figure it out.
Uhh, as for my good comments at seminar...thanks, but I think your memory is significantly rosier than mine. I remember being terrified and frustrated, and I really, really disliked the methodology we used, but felt too unsure of myself to really contest it. At the time, I thought that as I grew older and smarter, I'd realize that they were "right," that theirs was the only "correct" method of interpretation (which Robin once claimed to Bojun and me), but now that time has passed and I've taken other lit classes, I'm still skeptical and I still prefer reading poems alone in my room and interpreting them how I want rather than through all that speaker listener hero shit. BUT THE CATERPILLAR COMMENT WAS PAM, NOT ME!!
Things are going well, for the most part. I think I've changed a lot during the tail-end of my adolescence, since TASP in other words, which I guess is to be expected. Sadly, the only update to the Mr. X story is that I became adept at hiding in closets whenever he came near me and my first-graders. And as for the shower thing, I tried to explain it to my friend, and she was so horrified that she forbade me from speaking of it ever again. WTF?!
danielle
Dear Jake: those pictures were scary. Also, I think you should update your seal blog.
Dear Tom: Ah yes, the tan M&Ms guy. St. John's College, huh? Isn't that a Catholic community college somewhere in south Florida? How many Nobel winners does it have, again?
About free will...well, posting about it would be quite a change from the usual fare of me embarrassing myself in a million and one different ways. And I don't know if anyone out there would be interested other than us Great Books nerds. But, to answer your question, I'm not really focusing on theism. I'm actually really interested in biopsych and "biological determinism," and I'm doing the great books stuff as a supplement, which is not really what the Fundamentals classics fetishists want, but hey, I'm renegade. But specifically, I'm interested in addiction of all sorts, and psychopathology, and stuff like that. And I don't believe that we're as in control of our actions as we'd like to think--although to what extent, I don't know. Trying to figure it out.
Uhh, as for my good comments at seminar...thanks, but I think your memory is significantly rosier than mine. I remember being terrified and frustrated, and I really, really disliked the methodology we used, but felt too unsure of myself to really contest it. At the time, I thought that as I grew older and smarter, I'd realize that they were "right," that theirs was the only "correct" method of interpretation (which Robin once claimed to Bojun and me), but now that time has passed and I've taken other lit classes, I'm still skeptical and I still prefer reading poems alone in my room and interpreting them how I want rather than through all that speaker listener hero shit. BUT THE CATERPILLAR COMMENT WAS PAM, NOT ME!!
Things are going well, for the most part. I think I've changed a lot during the tail-end of my adolescence, since TASP in other words, which I guess is to be expected. Sadly, the only update to the Mr. X story is that I became adept at hiding in closets whenever he came near me and my first-graders. And as for the shower thing, I tried to explain it to my friend, and she was so horrified that she forbade me from speaking of it ever again. WTF?!
danielle
You always say things PERFECTLY.
I sent you a picture of the orange sky from sunday, and you could link to it if you like. It looks like a nuclear sky, something from a dead planet.
The fires are moving east, away from me and my dog and my scrapbooks, so we're going to be okay. They canceled school tomorrow, too; this fire-vacation is longer than thanksgiving break, now. Outside it's still like being locked in some cosmic smoky room, and one in ten people are wearing painter's masks.
I can't imagine what it must be like a few more miles inland. Bryson's dad is still out there, fighting the fires. Bryson is happy hmself, as a ominous computer engineering midterm has been postponed a week.
I love you. Check your mailbox for Sky pictures-- you'll agree that he is the most fluffily-adorable creature on this dead planet or any other.
love, kir*
You always say things PERFECTLY.
I sent you a picture of the orange sky from sunday, and you could link to it if you like. It looks like a nuclear sky, something from a dead planet.
The fires are moving east, away from me and my dog and my scrapbooks, so we're going to be okay. They canceled school tomorrow, too; this fire-vacation is longer than thanksgiving break, now. Outside it's still like being locked in some cosmic smoky room, and one in ten people are wearing painter's masks.
I can't imagine what it must be like a few more miles inland. Bryson's dad is still out there, fighting the fires. Bryson is happy hmself, as a ominous computer engineering midterm has been postponed a week.
I love you. Check your mailbox for Sky pictures-- you'll agree that he is the most fluffily-adorable creature on this dead planet or any other.
love, kir*
Oh, and I do hope that your family and everyone in Southern California is okay with the fires and all. I may have picked a bad post to reintroduce myself on, but I figured the latest one would be the best one. I really can't comprehend what the situation is like where the fires are--hell, I can barely comprehend what southern California must be like when there *aren't* fires--but that doesn't mean they're not there (right?) and I do hope all of yours and everyone else's loved ones are okay.
-tom
Oh, and I do hope that your family and everyone in Southern California is okay with the fires and all. I may have picked a bad post to reintroduce myself on, but I figured the latest one would be the best one. I really can't comprehend what the situation is like where the fires are--hell, I can barely comprehend what southern California must be like when there *aren't* fires--but that doesn't mean they're not there (right?) and I do hope all of yours and everyone else's loved ones are okay.
-tom
Hey Danielle!
I'm not sure if you remember me--we showered together once, but there were a couple other people there, so I may have been lost in the crowd. It's Tom from TASP, the tall one who didn't speak Russian. I was just setting up a list-serv for some people I'm sharing fiction/poetry/harangues with, and I got all nostalgic and looked up the V-Men postings and that led me to your cupboard. It's very nice, and I hope it's okay if you don't mind my visiting and reading sometimes.
The people I'm doing the other list-serv with are friends from my year at St. John's College, and I like them okay, so I'm glad to see that you've at least ended up at the watered-down sell-out version of SJC. I also think it's great that you get to major in free will. I don't know if you take requests, but maybe you could summarize or link to some sort of overview on your thoughts in an entry sometime soon? I suspect that you're still allowing for the existence of free will and flirting with theism, both of which are either wrong or unknowable, but I forgive you. I'm sure that you've given it all lots of thought and looked at things from more angles than I have--from what I hear about U Chicago they've probably got you applying philosophy to *society* of all things--but since I agree that determinism is a pretty important philosophical point I've spent a lot of time thinking/reading/writing (although not necessarily in that order) on it too. So I'd love to hear what someone who has devoted their undergraduate career to looking at free will has come up with. Especially since, as I recall, you were one of the people who consistently had good comments at TASP. Unless it was you who speculated that the catepillar in that one poem might actually have been a reference to Catepillar construction equipment, but I think that was a sleep-deprived Pam Stolzer (you remember her, she was in the shower too).
All right, you should really put a text limit on these comments, I'm sure I'm not the only former TASPer who is capable of rambling at length after stumbling on your blog.
In any case, I'm glad to see you're writing this much, and from what I've been able to read it sounds like things are going well for you, which is really great. You should also post an update about how your affair with Mr. X is going.
Nostalgically yours,
Tom
Hey Danielle!
I'm not sure if you remember me--we showered together once, but there were a couple other people there, so I may have been lost in the crowd. It's Tom from TASP, the tall one who didn't speak Russian. I was just setting up a list-serv for some people I'm sharing fiction/poetry/harangues with, and I got all nostalgic and looked up the V-Men postings and that led me to your cupboard. It's very nice, and I hope it's okay if you don't mind my visiting and reading sometimes.
The people I'm doing the other list-serv with are friends from my year at St. John's College, and I like them okay, so I'm glad to see that you've at least ended up at the watered-down sell-out version of SJC. I also think it's great that you get to major in free will. I don't know if you take requests, but maybe you could summarize or link to some sort of overview on your thoughts in an entry sometime soon? I suspect that you're still allowing for the existence of free will and flirting with theism, both of which are either wrong or unknowable, but I forgive you. I'm sure that you've given it all lots of thought and looked at things from more angles than I have--from what I hear about U Chicago they've probably got you applying philosophy to *society* of all things--but since I agree that determinism is a pretty important philosophical point I've spent a lot of time thinking/reading/writing (although not necessarily in that order) on it too. So I'd love to hear what someone who has devoted their undergraduate career to looking at free will has come up with. Especially since, as I recall, you were one of the people who consistently had good comments at TASP. Unless it was you who speculated that the catepillar in that one poem might actually have been a reference to Catepillar construction equipment, but I think that was a sleep-deprived Pam Stolzer (you remember her, she was in the shower too).
All right, you should really put a text limit on these comments, I'm sure I'm not the only former TASPer who is capable of rambling at length after stumbling on your blog.
In any case, I'm glad to see you're writing this much, and from what I've been able to read it sounds like things are going well for you, which is really great. You should also post an update about how your affair with Mr. X is going.
Nostalgically yours,
Tom
im from Santa Barbara.
My parents are scared shitless. You seen the NASA satallite photos? Go to Nasa's website and look in the gallery. They are terrifying.
im from Santa Barbara.
My parents are scared shitless. You seen the NASA satallite photos? Go to Nasa's website and look in the gallery. They are terrifying.
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