philosophical bullsh*t
to celebrate the return of my notebook, i shall indulge you with a post.
i was at philly yesterday with the international students for a day of fun-filled activities (at the risk of sounding cheesy). the day started with me waking up to the majestic ringing of the telephone and then the realization that i had overslept. sh*t, i thought, and rushed to beautify myself while everyone else waited for me. van ride to philly was unnecessarily bumpy because i decided to sit in the backseat and try to study for philosophy (did 3 pages, frick). stopped at camden, at rutgers university to park the van and took a train to philly. on arrival at said city, i insisted on eating malaysian food so the group trooped to 'penang' a malaysian restaurant in chinatown. after lunch, the group split up and i visited the philadelphia museum of art where i contemplated works by van gogh, monet, picasso, and a slew of renaissance artists who had a knack of drawing nude pictures, porn in the name of art! left museum and couldn't find the bus to get back to the city so we spent an hour waiting for random buses.
today was also pretty good. i tagged along with the asian students' fellowship to a chinese church where the promise of an authentic chinese lunch awaited. service was weird because translator was extraordinarily bad but i picked up some new words for my limited chinese vocab 'ping an' and 'shi le'. and i had chinese food. and i even ta paued some back to the dorm. and its waiting for me in the fridge as i type. slept for a good 2 hours in the afternoon although i was supposed to start on a paper. went to work and after cleaning the bathroom, i come out and realize its dark already...the sun sets at 530 here, don't ask me what time it rises cause i don't know, i'm never awake. packed my bag with a ton of econs books and my newly repaired notebook and headed for the library. worked on the paper and now i'm back in my room languishing in my chair, bliss.
philosophy is still my toughest and most incoherent class. i remain that philosophy is the mask fools use to cloak their ignorance. how can you argue for causality a priori? what the heck do we need to know whether we know what we know via absconditus, via aeternitatis, or through recollection? will we ever know for certain anyway? it does help with christian theology though because it makes aristotle and plato's arguments more understandable.
my roommates seem all too eager to please each other and i don't know where that leaves me. i'm more contented just doing stuff on my own.
i just looked at my calendar at realized that i have 3 papers to write in the next week, thanksgiving week. i'm visiting my roommate's home for a few days then it's crunch time for me.
someone showed me this site and i almost shat ( much cooler way to say shitted) in my pants from laughing so hard. here it is http://maddox.xmission.com/irule.html .
alright, later.