Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Submitted by elen.
I have googled my name. There is usually no/1 other people/person with my name who pops up, other then me. Which is funny, because I'm certainly related to a few. Most of the lnks and me and are convention related, which isn't surprising really.
Ha! Just looked again and there is a limerick, and really I'm sure people could think it was me but, wasn't while written by someone with my name. Everything else on the first page of results is me and all but one is concom/guest related (which is that I was nominated for a Sam for 'When Winter's Past' at Dixseption, which makes me all warm and fuzzy thinking about.
Looking at the second page the is one other person with my name, and one with my name contained in theirs that aren't me and lots of separated things, along with me a bit. This really appears to be it.
Yet I keep getting told a relation with my name is published under it. Ho hum.
So, in the first week of term I wrote the first draft of my personal statement for university. This is early/mid-september. I gave this to my tutor to look over. I waited, begining of term is busy, I didn't want to rush him. Then, I did ask a few times and he said he would. Then about 3 weeks after I'd given it to him I asked and he said he didn't remember it and had lost it.
They don't want people asking for lecturer references until their personal statement is nearly done. So I asked for one that was special circumstances, but waited for others. Despite this, I did get confirmation from Lecturer's that they had been done two weeks ago. Before even that I had discussed with my tutor what would go into his reference for me.
Today I look at the thing and discover he hasn't sent off my application yet. and with what things looks like this will mean I am hugely less likely to get in most of the places I have applied. I am really not exagerating.
Grr.
I just got Firefox 2. Mainly due to boredom, but it seems quite nice. Let me rephrase that, after I reinstalled it seemed quite nice. The first time all my bookmarks were gone ("I thought it was supposed to keep them? Maybe I was wrong. I'm such an idiot!" goes my brain). And there were no search engines options ("Odd maybe I need to add them again myself.") And then I couldn't add them. Or any new bookmarks. Or do a few other things.
Then I reinstalled it and all was well! I like my disorganised collection of bookmarks and am rather glad I don't need to recreate them. I do also think it's quite pretty, although I know certain people would disagree with me on that. I honestly doubt I'll notice many of the differences, beyond the look and the changes in tabbing, but I sounds like aren't really all that many changes anyway.
But I am now all up to date, which is fun and hopefully I will continue to enjoy my firefox experience.
I haven't really stopped being busy since September. College brings work and friends and troubles and Big Decisions(tm) and a severe lack of sleep and so I have been doing so very much. It doesn't help much arriving as late as I do even if I do leaver straight away. Of course, I also need to keep family stuff, even if I really would rather make it just stop for a while and so that just means doing more things, getting more headaches and not shouting at Simon to just stop talking nonsense and actually listen to me for once!
I've also recently realised that, for all I've been spending a lot of time with people recently, so much of what what we discuss is just pointless. Which is a not always a bad thing, but I certainly need more conversations on Descartes vs. Satre and what the attraction is for straight men to lesbians and straight women to slash and what Cameron really wants in the contexts of conservative and, indeed, liberal ideology. And more of course. I have been finding myself really annoying, but I think it's mainly just not enough intellignet discourse.
Lessons have some of this, but I'm stuck with quite a lot of people who would rather just throw stuff about and mean no one else keeps a chance to actually engage in their lessons, leaving me bored out my mind. I occasionally with I didn't pick somethings up to easily. On Monday Dan (one of my Philosophy teachers) wrote 'property dualism' and, figured out what it was, because to me it was enitrely obvious. Meanwhile the entire 90 minute lesson was spent explaining the basics to the class because even the people who are normally on the ball didn't get it. It's not really about me being smarter, I just work in a different way and vtend to be quite good at breaking down vdown language in my head, despite verbally defining words being the bane of my existance.
So I should try to get more of that in. and more sleep. And do my work. And be in all my lessons. And finish by bloody personal statement. And keep up with family and friends. And all the other stuff. Hopefully, I'll be fine and at least I theoretically have a long summer as a reward for doing this once I have.
At least I have half term to help my brain reform.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with these
instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your
closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is
closest.
From Epistemology: the theory of knowledge by Cardinal, Hayward and Jones (Cardinal being my slightly Lockheartesque Philosophy lecturer, who keeps making us buy his books):
Accordingly, epistemology often begins with the question of what precisely knowledge it. However, going against this trend, we have left the analysis of what 'knowledge' actually means until last. By first exploring the problems of epistemology, we hope to have sharpened our understanding of what knowledge is in advance of attempting to home in on a definition. The term 'knowledge', however, doesn't have just one meaning, and philosophers have traditionally divided knowledge into three main types.
What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment? What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly.
Well, as I have just completed watching season 2 of "Veronica Mars" I have currently got the song "Veronica" by Elvis Costello according to wp co-written with Paul McCartney. This song is played twice over the series, that I noticed, in kareoke and at a party. It's obvious why they put it in, and it's a fun song.
Randomly searching for it I found the/a video for it:
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
When I was in primary school I loved Maths, and English. For different reasons, but they were both brilliant. Secondary school I pretty much liked the same - although I really enjoyed Drama too, despite some bad drama experience and chemistry rocked, for the most part. DT was good for the brief while we did it. I made a clock!
I stopped being able to enjoy maths about halfway through secondary though, but English was still good.
Now I'm doing only English, Philosophy and Politics, and I genuinely enjoy all three subjects, and stragely now English is probably my least favourite. The problem now is that I really to decide on what I want to study and uni. For a good while I've been thinking about doing an English and Politics joint honours degree, but I don't know whether I could go to a good place and if that would be the right thing for me at all.
I've been looking at universities and degrees but I'm still lost. however much I enjoy English, I'm just not that great at the work. And I really ewnjoy Politics, but an entire degree in it would probably be too much. I don't really have any clue what else I could do that would really be interesting to me - and that's important, I have to be interested, otherwise I just won't do anything, and what's the point in that?
I've probably also become stuck on things I've done before, but I don't have much of a basis for many other things.
Hopefully, I will figure something out Real Soon Now, and until then, I guess I'll go back to the prospectuses (prospecti?).
:)
What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater?
Question submitted by mainmor.
Well, I vaguely remember getting four of us in the back seat in order to see The Lion King when I was quite young, but this might just be a story I remember, and may not have even been that film.
That is my only real memory of cinema before I moved to Qatar. I remember the cinema very clearly. I'm pretty sure that in the two years I lived there they only showed about two films, one of which I believe was Space Jam. The one that I really remember first was that classic, The Brady Bunch Movie.
I remember the seats and being really near the back with my sister, even though we were quite possibly the only people there. I don't think I remember all that much of te film from then because I've seen it many times since and so my memories of the actual plot are probably more recent. Although thinking about it, Jan's single curler might be something I still rmember from then.
Having an older sister who was oh-so-brilliant sister, I did quite empathise with her plight. Plus, her name scans to 'Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.'
The attitude to films there was interesting. There weren't any real copyright laws there at the time, so the rental shop was full of copies, and so not bothering to give the films back was not much of a big deal. I know we certainly took We're Back (a classic film) and we meant to take Camp Nowhere, although we never got around to that. That was quite possibly the best film ever!
This, especially my first proper cinema experience, probably says a lot about me, but I'm not sure if it is good or bad...
Do you have any tattoos? If not, if you were going to get inked, what would you get?
Whenever the subject of tattoos comes up I always remember something my friend Dave once said. 'I wouldn't want to live in a bedroom decorated 20 years ago, so why would I want to live in a body that was?' That's really the main problem. If I really truly decided I wanted a tattoo, I would have to believe I would continue wanting it just as much in 30 years, and I doubt that will happen.
The only thing I've ever really wanted was the dragon design on a top I used to have. If was a chinese style dragon that I thought was very cool. I wouldn't want that now though, because it never actually meant anything to me anyway.
Besides, the way skin moves around you never know how such things will become distorted, anyway.
I just felt the need to share this piece of messenger insanity that just occured:
[15:00] raft_tree: mime's down
[15:00] raft_tree: *mine's done
[15:00] andrew_january: lol
[15:00] andrew_january: 64%
[15:00] raft_tree: Mime's down could be a band
[15:01] andrew_january: lol
[15:01] andrew_january: or something the judge says at a mime weighing contest
[15:01] andrew_january: or it would more be a "guess the weight of the mime" competition
[15:01] raft_tree: or to some people attempting to use a mime as a weapon
[15:02] andrew_january: "Well I eat a banana at you"
[15:02] raft_tree: It could be a competition to see who weighs the fastest
[15:02] raft_tree: 'I weigh faster then you!'
Don't you just love typos?
