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May. 17th, 2006 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ithikaIn light of something I just discovered for the essay I'm writing, I've just discovered that somewhere, in some story that I will someday write, there will be a Lunar Fox goddess.
People are prone to hyperbole, all the time.
"Absolutely perfect"
Absolutely is superfluous.
Something is perfect, or it is not. Thus, something that is "absolutely perfect", if it truly is perfect, is exactly the same in terms of quality as something which is only "perfect."
Or perhaps we overuse words with strong connotations.
Oh god, why is this typing taking so long?? Clearly I've lost some speed or motivation or something. Bugger.
I've gotten pretty good at Solitaire in my intermittent procrastination periods this year. Relative, that is, to my past skill level (utterly woeful).
I'm going to join a Gym, now that I have a job. I know I said this a while ago, and someone (but right now I can't remember who) said that I would be welcome to join their gym-group-thing, or something, but this is but a quick procrastination-point and delving into my LJ's archives can only result in more time-wastage, less essay-research, so yes :)
But, is anyone else considering joining a/the gym, or would they if I did?
Cannot wait for semester break. Sorry for large abandonment across the board, but at the moment, I am trying to do as well as I can at uni, and because I haven't been able to balance this with being sociable at the moment one of the two had to go.. and at the moment, assignments are more urgent. I'm sure I'll find the balance next semester, but in this one it's been pretty much impossible due not only to uni but also to me having no money. And I generally refuse the much-appreciated offers of people paying for stuff for me because I don't want to be "the one who always bums from others" (yes, I'd rather be the piker than the one who's constantly in debpt and unlikely to pay stuff back), and there are deep-set emotional reasons for that too, which I'm not going to go into.
So, sorry, everyone. But, things will likely get better in terms of me turning up to stuff. Just not right now.
I thought about not saying it(all that), because I thought it was fairly obvious, but then I thought it's better to say something obvious and be thought a bit silly than not say it and have people think I'm avoiding them, or don't like them, or whatever.
Internet radio angers me. It keeps stopping for no reason. Optimised streaming experience my donkey. And, as a point of interest, lately I've been listening to Nova (shock?) because... well, I think that lately, a lot of the stuff on the J's isn't really all that good. Or at least, I don't like it. And Adam and Wil are gone - it's just not the same. Plus, I'm liking some of this mindless catchy stuff. You would probably be a little surprised at some of the songs I like to turn up when in my car. Oh yes. and of course, there's the Wolfmother factor - listening to the same 10-song playlist all day isn't bad when two or so of those songs are from one of your top 6 bands - and next to no ads is a seeeerious plus. I know, Triple J doesn't have ads, but as I said... I just don't enjoy the music they play anymore.
Steady as She Goes makes me happy. I want that album by that guy, but I don't think I will buy it. *Smile sweetly*. and Elephant. Which I think Gavin has. Yays.
Debate!!!
I am of the following opinion:
If you did not want money, you would not work.
If you did not want money, you would not go to uni.
In more detail:
If you didn't want money, you would not work, at all, because: Even a job you love involves stress at times. Even the ideal job involves stress and pressure, which would take some of the fun out of whatever it was. Deadlines, expectations, appraisal, and the need to impress your boss/customers/clients/whatever at least partially replaces fun with stress. So, you would not work if you didn't care about money, or at least, you wouldn't work at the same level you do/would if you cared about money - because money is (sometimes) enough incentive to go through that stess, irritation and inconvenience.
If you didn't want money (aka a decent job) you wouldn't go to uni in the conventional sense, because of all the stress involved. For example, history, a thing that I love. Even I, who lists history on my top ten sources of joy, did not enoy essay deadlines or exams. I would write the essays for fun, but not to a deadline, and not to the same standard as I did for assessments, and I would go to the lectures (most of the time), but I wouldn't put in nearly the ammount of effort required to pass well had I not been paying for the degree and intending to get a job out of it.
Now, I got up at 7am this morning so I'm not feeling at my most eloquent, and tried to make this short 'n sweet, as it were (a thing which anyone could tell you I'm not good at), so I've probably been quite blunt and lacking with the tact. So this is the disclaimer: i'm not trying to insult anyone, call anyone names, throw sticks, rocks or frogs, or to say that this is an absolute truth. For the purpose of debate, I've said it this way instead of "I think", and also because I'm Livejo.. I mean, this is my livejournal. (see ,Ghan=tired) to make it more, I dunno, confident and confrontational so that it can be all thing like a debate. I'd like to hear people's opinions, and since I'm not looking at the keyboar... screen, I never look at the keyboard, stupid brain, because I now lack the strenght to hold up my head, I appologix.. appologise for any spelling/typing errors. I haven't backspaced because I can't be bothered thinking about how many keystrokes back whatever error I just made was. So... ner.
Thankyou, goodnight.
Let's see if I can close this tag without looking.
Here goes!!
EDIT
That tag that's too long and so was cut said "Abuse of cool words like hyperbole but not of cool words like irony"
and... I lost a bracelet that Gavin gave me. It makes me very sad. I never even got to show anyone it. :(
People are prone to hyperbole, all the time.
"Absolutely perfect"
Absolutely is superfluous.
Something is perfect, or it is not. Thus, something that is "absolutely perfect", if it truly is perfect, is exactly the same in terms of quality as something which is only "perfect."
Or perhaps we overuse words with strong connotations.
Oh god, why is this typing taking so long?? Clearly I've lost some speed or motivation or something. Bugger.
I've gotten pretty good at Solitaire in my intermittent procrastination periods this year. Relative, that is, to my past skill level (utterly woeful).
I'm going to join a Gym, now that I have a job. I know I said this a while ago, and someone (but right now I can't remember who) said that I would be welcome to join their gym-group-thing, or something, but this is but a quick procrastination-point and delving into my LJ's archives can only result in more time-wastage, less essay-research, so yes :)
But, is anyone else considering joining a/the gym, or would they if I did?
Cannot wait for semester break. Sorry for large abandonment across the board, but at the moment, I am trying to do as well as I can at uni, and because I haven't been able to balance this with being sociable at the moment one of the two had to go.. and at the moment, assignments are more urgent. I'm sure I'll find the balance next semester, but in this one it's been pretty much impossible due not only to uni but also to me having no money. And I generally refuse the much-appreciated offers of people paying for stuff for me because I don't want to be "the one who always bums from others" (yes, I'd rather be the piker than the one who's constantly in debpt and unlikely to pay stuff back), and there are deep-set emotional reasons for that too, which I'm not going to go into.
So, sorry, everyone. But, things will likely get better in terms of me turning up to stuff. Just not right now.
I thought about not saying it(all that), because I thought it was fairly obvious, but then I thought it's better to say something obvious and be thought a bit silly than not say it and have people think I'm avoiding them, or don't like them, or whatever.
Internet radio angers me. It keeps stopping for no reason. Optimised streaming experience my donkey. And, as a point of interest, lately I've been listening to Nova (shock?) because... well, I think that lately, a lot of the stuff on the J's isn't really all that good. Or at least, I don't like it. And Adam and Wil are gone - it's just not the same. Plus, I'm liking some of this mindless catchy stuff. You would probably be a little surprised at some of the songs I like to turn up when in my car. Oh yes. and of course, there's the Wolfmother factor - listening to the same 10-song playlist all day isn't bad when two or so of those songs are from one of your top 6 bands - and next to no ads is a seeeerious plus. I know, Triple J doesn't have ads, but as I said... I just don't enjoy the music they play anymore.
Steady as She Goes makes me happy. I want that album by that guy, but I don't think I will buy it. *Smile sweetly*. and Elephant. Which I think Gavin has. Yays.
Debate!!!
I am of the following opinion:
If you did not want money, you would not work.
If you did not want money, you would not go to uni.
In more detail:
If you didn't want money, you would not work, at all, because: Even a job you love involves stress at times. Even the ideal job involves stress and pressure, which would take some of the fun out of whatever it was. Deadlines, expectations, appraisal, and the need to impress your boss/customers/clients/whatever at least partially replaces fun with stress. So, you would not work if you didn't care about money, or at least, you wouldn't work at the same level you do/would if you cared about money - because money is (sometimes) enough incentive to go through that stess, irritation and inconvenience.
If you didn't want money (aka a decent job) you wouldn't go to uni in the conventional sense, because of all the stress involved. For example, history, a thing that I love. Even I, who lists history on my top ten sources of joy, did not enoy essay deadlines or exams. I would write the essays for fun, but not to a deadline, and not to the same standard as I did for assessments, and I would go to the lectures (most of the time), but I wouldn't put in nearly the ammount of effort required to pass well had I not been paying for the degree and intending to get a job out of it.
Now, I got up at 7am this morning so I'm not feeling at my most eloquent, and tried to make this short 'n sweet, as it were (a thing which anyone could tell you I'm not good at), so I've probably been quite blunt and lacking with the tact. So this is the disclaimer: i'm not trying to insult anyone, call anyone names, throw sticks, rocks or frogs, or to say that this is an absolute truth. For the purpose of debate, I've said it this way instead of "I think", and also because I'm Livejo.. I mean, this is my livejournal. (see ,Ghan=tired) to make it more, I dunno, confident and confrontational so that it can be all thing like a debate. I'd like to hear people's opinions, and since I'm not looking at the keyboar... screen, I never look at the keyboard, stupid brain, because I now lack the strenght to hold up my head, I appologix.. appologise for any spelling/typing errors. I haven't backspaced because I can't be bothered thinking about how many keystrokes back whatever error I just made was. So... ner.
Thankyou, goodnight.
Let's see if I can close this tag without looking.
Here goes!!
EDIT
That tag that's too long and so was cut said "Abuse of cool words like hyperbole but not of cool words like irony"
and... I lost a bracelet that Gavin gave me. It makes me very sad. I never even got to show anyone it. :(
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Date: 2006-05-16 04:34 pm (UTC)Consider two tasks to be performed and completed simultaneously. If the two are equally complete, they are relatively perfect. Only if both are entirely complete are they absolutely perfect.