always pleasant if a bit disconcerting to submit something you threw together in entirely too little time and which you think is kind of a mess and get back an "excellent work"

now to coalesce my paper presentation for tomorrow

i support escapism that is born from a deep seated loathing of this world but i do not support whatever perverse impulse drives people to "cozy" media

sometimes i see people claim that "everyone hates ai" but im not sure this actually true

was reading a paper and it contained a line like "art and literature exist to be criticized and argued about, not appreciated and understood" which is the sort of thing only a literary critic could say

guuugh

theres something wrong with people who want to have children

google ai -> googly eye? the truth revealed

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theyre sending me to the outside world

youve gotta be a little reddit in my opinion. but just a little

ghost?

i need to eat something, get groceries, and then get to work on stuff

i need food

ive started habitually pronouncing the p in words like "ptarmigan"

slept for 11 hours and had a dream about tmesis

there's nothing on the computer

today ive got to write most of a ~25 page paper... just a draft thankfully and hopefully it won't be that hard; i didn't get much writing done yesterday but i did make some conceptual breakthroughs

my body has not yet fully adjusted to the time change this year

ive got a paper i should be working on but i have unpaid sleep debt and i dont want to

anyone else remember cell phones. quelle nostalgie!

tis the season... time to listen to hp lovecraft themed christmas music

"strom thurmond" is such a racist-sounding name

possibly the most fundamental question to ask when doing any sort of "worldbuilding" is where does the food come from

new pet peeve has been developing lately: medieval/fantasy/whatever countrysides that do not seem to include any farmland

for some reason im feeling like i want to watch a mediocre fantasy adventure anime

im tired :(

too many people are only into media

its christmas

sometime people say that nothing will be the same again. but the truth is that nothing has ever been the same

the world could do with fewer meditations on love and loss or what have you

in general i am quite sympathetic to "escapism" and "wish fulfillment" in fiction, on the grounds that there is much worth escaping in this rather inadequate world

i hope that next semester, having a better idea of what i've got myself into, i will be able to manage my time more effectively and stay one step ahead of the work rather than just barely getting everything done on time

i need infinite power

imprisons you in the material realm

anime

only anime this season i've really ended up keeping up with is gnosia

rereading lord of the rings for the first time in years... presently like 1/3rd of the way through fellowship. it's pretty good. i like all the singing and walking. also gandalf is a lot meaner than i remembered

hi

bad music vs bad music (japan)

something important to remember but all too easy to forget is that everyone you encounter on a day to day basis was human once too

i should get a cat ear headband

the amount of stuff in the western scholarly tradition that goes back to plato is really kind of stunning

in the beginning, god had an idea for a creature so evil that he was morally obligated to make it so it could be punished

"i couldn't make this up if i tried" well i could

migraine