HEHEHE: add to the list of things that make life worth living: smart girls who are also hot

BLAH: I stand by my statement

I'M NOT TRYING TO BE JUDGMENTAL, BUT... if someone was writing things like that in the context of, say, the church they had just joined, I would assume they were part of a cult. And had been brainwashed. But what do I know?

THE REVISED THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING:
1. Miles Davis albums from the 1950s
2. Woody Allen movies
3. "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks
4. The first and third seasons of Sex and the City
5. Rembrandt (and Vermeer)

JUST IN CASE: you were wondering what a group of philosophers is called, the Chair of the Philosophy Department sent out an e-mail:
Dear Philosophers,

I thought you might enjoy the following from our Interim Provost.

Best,
Steve


X-Sender: pnc@p.imap.itd.umich.edu
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:39:48 -0500
To: Steve Darwall
From: "Paul N. Courant"
Subject: Terms of Venery

Steve,

From "An Exaltation of Larks, or The Venereal Game," by James Lipton, Penguin, 1977, I discover that he (or someone) has already invented a term for philosophers.

A Wrangle of Philosophers.

Best to you and your fellow wranglers.

Paul

There'll be more, I promise

OKAY: enough of my shenanigans. The list:
things that make life worth living:
1. Miles Davis albums from the 1950s
2. Woody Allen movies, pre-1980
3. "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks
4. The first and third seasons of Sex and the City
5. Rembrandt (and Vermeer)
6. Caramel Machiattos from Starbucks
7. Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan on TV discussing politics and
culture
8. The Critic (especially the theme music)
9. The last two pages of Franny and Zooey
10. The #49 from Amer's, on an onion roll
11. The knowledge I will never again have to read War and Peace
12. Wednesday nights: two episodes of Friends, three of Law and Order, The
Bernie Mac Show, the Job, and the knowledge that I have no
responsibilities for the next 24 hours
13. Phone calls, when you know someone will be there to answer
14. Will and Grace
15. Sartre
16. the feeling of a W.B. Yeats poem
17. trying to remember the face of the girl you just met
18. The new J. Crew catalogue
19. Pizza from the In 'n' Out after spending too much time at the Grad
20. mix cds

does this shit actually work?

BAH, HUMBUG:
Today is that worst and most traumatic day of the year. As part of my annual tradition of trying to fend off loneliness any way humanly possible, I have been working on my list (stolen, naturally, from the movie Manhattan) of things that make life worth living. Here goes:

CONCERT: Who'd've thought bluegrass classical music could actually be listenable? Hmm... I want to go out and buy a steel guitar now. Good thing I can afford to. Woo!. Best $28.50 I've spent in the last week

QUOTE:
"oh. i get it now. okay then. you want to be king? let's go. c'mon. bring it! huh? huh?"
-from my lingusitics notes. I think I'm over-compensating.

JUST KIDDING: but you knew that already, right?

COMPENSATION: I immediately left my lecture, walked back to my room, and beat the shit out of my roommate. I feel masculine again.

WHAT I LEARNED: today in my Linguistics lecture. Apparently, I'm a woman. Or, at the very least, I spent my formative years socializing in a manner typical of women, and speak with the typical linguistic features of women. I blame my sister and mother.

QUOTE:
"What wife do you know obeys her wife? Does your wife do what you tell her to do?"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, responding to a request by Southern Democratic Congressmen to limit Eleanor's public interactions with African-Americans when the Roosevelts were in Georgia.