Happiness? Plz?

[aesc]

On the Trinity is depriving me of the will to live. As depressing is my imminent return to Heidegger, whom I abandoned because I couldn't take him anymore but need to start reading again. I'm not a philosopher or theologian, but I have to pretend I'm one for a while, and I don't think it's going well.

So. Tell me something that makes you happy. Tell me a story. Show me a picture. Anything to keep me from harming myself or the library book, or fleeing to the Northwest Territory.

Something that makes me happy: my dog grinning at me and thumping his tail when he happens to look up as I look down. My Moleskine commonplace book, which is stuffed full of quotations and randomness.

Also, all being well, sgabigbang goes live tomorrow, :>

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[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

1. My thesis went to the bindery today. That's the very last step in the process; I'm not a student anymore. I'm excited about that. I have at least a year that I can play with ideas and words my way, without having to answer to the academy, and I'm hoping that will help me grow into a better scholar.
2. I'm starting with psychogeography, and Slings & Arrows fanfiction.
3. I have a colleague who is obsessed with On the Trinity. In mannerisms, she's a bit of a (ditz) stereotype (though she isn't actually ditzy at all), and she told me, once, all about how On the Trinity "is, like, soooooooooooooooooooooo relevant." I still giggle, thinking about it.
4. Sailboats.
5. What is it about moleskines that makes them better than other sorts of notebook? I'm genuinely curious about this. I always carry a pocket-sized notebook from IKEA with me, which is similarly stuffed with quotations, ideas, and other randomness.
6. My best friend and I were planning on attending convocation wearing t-shirts that said, "And I never read Heidegger" on them, but we'll both be out of the country.
7. Podfic.
... that's all I have for now, though, because I have to pack and clean, because 8. tomorrow, I get on a bus, and then a plane, and then I will be back in my hometown, however, briefly.

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

9. (how could I forget?) SGA Big Bang going live on the day I finally have the time to binge-read all those stories, if I so choose (yay!). :)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I know! I'm ridiculously excited.

I think I'm going to have to parcel the stories out over several days, otherwise I'm going to have to ask my professors if I could make McKay/Sheppard my major exam field :)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

That's the very last step in the process; I'm not a student anymore.

Hurray! Congratulations! I remember when I dropped my MA thesis off and the graduate college accepted it, that was when I was done. And the absence of weight, oh my God, it was wonderful.

I'm starting with psychogeography,

This sounds terribly interesting, actually. Can you briefly explain the premise? Or is it one of those things that defies brevity (or a premise)?

all about how On the Trinity "is, like, soooooooooooooooooooooo relevant." I still giggle, thinking about it.

It is depressingly relevant, if only because a lot of it prefigures Cartesian arguments on the mind and its relationship to the world, and some of it (particularly some of the Neoplatonism) remind me, distantly, of phenomenological accounts of being.

What is it about moleskines that makes them better than other sorts of notebook? I'm genuinely curious about this.

I honestly have no idea. I picked up a Moleskine one day because my dad had inadvertently placed my old journal in the "Random Stuff My Daughter Doesn't Need and So Shall Be Purged" pile when I moved out, so I needed a new one. And I haven't been able to write in anything else since. Some of the things I like are the way the cover feels, the line spacing (I have very tiny handwriting), and the off-white color of the paper, which I find very soothing for some reason.

7. Podfic.

Indeed!

8. tomorrow, I get on a bus, and then a plane, and then I will be back in my hometown, however, briefly.

Yay for home! That's always a wonderful thing.