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Nano isn't going fantastically, but considering I have two essays, a show, a job and a girlfriend - not to mention that the last weekend in November includes an aftershow party, my 23rd birthday, and the Divinity College Ball (I'm not a Divinity student but L and her entire academic family are) - I think I'm doing okay. Ish. Okay-ish.
I'm hoping to have a meeting with my academic advisor (dubbed by L 'the Hipster Sim') about dropping philosophy entirely. :D: I just can't make myself write essays about things that are not in any way interesting relevant to anything ever any more.
Also, if I am a full IR student I might be able to take classes with irregular appearances from &Dr Louise Richardson;. She is the president of the university and a terrorism expert and a complete badass, and I recently read her book What Terrorists Want and *____*ed the whole way through it. I could never work in terrorism or national security, but God, if they had a Spooks-like TV show where people ~combat terrorism~ in a half-intelligent way I would be ALL OVER THAT.
Speaking of which: we've finally reached S5 of The West Wing - the one which begins with ( spoiler for people as slow at watching TV shows as I am ) and it is terrifying how easily and how casually people can make decisions about how to ~deal with terrorists~ with barely any discussion or critial thought. And okay I KNOW IT'S A TV SHOW but it's so awful being reminded that the really powerful people in the really powerful nations are just people who can be as wrongheaded and ill-informed and full of misconceptions as the rest of us. Eeep.
... which goes right back to the scary thought of studying International Relations full-time. At least the pointless and useless essays I'm writing now wouldn't tend to conclude with WE ARE BEING LED BY MORONS AND WILL SURELY PERISH.
I'm hoping to have a meeting with my academic advisor (dubbed by L 'the Hipster Sim') about dropping philosophy entirely. :D: I just can't make myself write essays about things that are not in any way interesting relevant to anything ever any more.
Also, if I am a full IR student I might be able to take classes with irregular appearances from &Dr Louise Richardson;. She is the president of the university and a terrorism expert and a complete badass, and I recently read her book What Terrorists Want and *____*ed the whole way through it. I could never work in terrorism or national security, but God, if they had a Spooks-like TV show where people ~combat terrorism~ in a half-intelligent way I would be ALL OVER THAT.
Speaking of which: we've finally reached S5 of The West Wing - the one which begins with ( spoiler for people as slow at watching TV shows as I am ) and it is terrifying how easily and how casually people can make decisions about how to ~deal with terrorists~ with barely any discussion or critial thought. And okay I KNOW IT'S A TV SHOW but it's so awful being reminded that the really powerful people in the really powerful nations are just people who can be as wrongheaded and ill-informed and full of misconceptions as the rest of us. Eeep.
... which goes right back to the scary thought of studying International Relations full-time. At least the pointless and useless essays I'm writing now wouldn't tend to conclude with WE ARE BEING LED BY MORONS AND WILL SURELY PERISH.