missives from beyond
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aamcnamaraBy which I still mean college. Still not too much writing; intermittent sprinkles of it, which is enough for now in a busy life.
I am going to have to get out my camera one of these days, because my pocketwatch came today and it is awesome. I may not have mentioned it here before. If not, I got it because of my workstudy job, which requires me to sit in a rare book room and stare at books for hours and not get completely lost and forget to, say, go to class. Having a watch seemed like a good idea. I've never been one for wearing things on my wrists--just not my style--and, I mean, come on. Pocket watch! It arrived today. I immediately began showing it to everyone I know. I may have missed some people, but I will get to them. (That is a promise! Not a threat! I swear!)
(As a side note, both a geeky dance and Halloween are approaching. Given my pocket watch and potentially bringing my haircut into consideration, please suggest costumes.)
Very busy lately: week of the first papers. I had a sociology paper due and a physics test today, both of which went smoothly. I have a philosophy paper due tomorrow, which I am still sort of sidling up on--I have most of it, but it's still eluding me a little. Taking sociology and philosophy together is intriguing, and something I fully intend to write more about, one of these days.
One immediate contrast is that while writing a sociology essay mostly felt like writing a history essay (potentially I have been writing sociology essays all along, which would account for a few of the essay grades I got in high school), writing a philosophy essay doesn't really feel like anything else.
It's taken me several days to get this far; all I really need now is a lead-in to the conclusion, a conclusion, and another pass over it to check for logical inconsistencies, etc. Somehow, even though the rest of the essay is written, I can't come up with a way to get to the conclusion. Something's missing there, and I'm not sure how to find it.
On the other hand, I keep having to tell myself that I don't have to prove everything ever about philosophy in this 2-3 page paper. I keep having stylistic flights of fancy and half-quoting Dylan Thomas.
Does this mean that I should take more philosophy classes? Major in philosophy? Who knows. There are some things about it I don't like, or that I don't find enjoyable. There are some things about writing this essay that I don't find enjoyable. On the other hand, it's working my brain in ways my brain hasn't been worked before, which in my opinion can only be good.
I am going to have to get out my camera one of these days, because my pocketwatch came today and it is awesome. I may not have mentioned it here before. If not, I got it because of my workstudy job, which requires me to sit in a rare book room and stare at books for hours and not get completely lost and forget to, say, go to class. Having a watch seemed like a good idea. I've never been one for wearing things on my wrists--just not my style--and, I mean, come on. Pocket watch! It arrived today. I immediately began showing it to everyone I know. I may have missed some people, but I will get to them. (That is a promise! Not a threat! I swear!)
(As a side note, both a geeky dance and Halloween are approaching. Given my pocket watch and potentially bringing my haircut into consideration, please suggest costumes.)
Very busy lately: week of the first papers. I had a sociology paper due and a physics test today, both of which went smoothly. I have a philosophy paper due tomorrow, which I am still sort of sidling up on--I have most of it, but it's still eluding me a little. Taking sociology and philosophy together is intriguing, and something I fully intend to write more about, one of these days.
One immediate contrast is that while writing a sociology essay mostly felt like writing a history essay (potentially I have been writing sociology essays all along, which would account for a few of the essay grades I got in high school), writing a philosophy essay doesn't really feel like anything else.
It's taken me several days to get this far; all I really need now is a lead-in to the conclusion, a conclusion, and another pass over it to check for logical inconsistencies, etc. Somehow, even though the rest of the essay is written, I can't come up with a way to get to the conclusion. Something's missing there, and I'm not sure how to find it.
On the other hand, I keep having to tell myself that I don't have to prove everything ever about philosophy in this 2-3 page paper. I keep having stylistic flights of fancy and half-quoting Dylan Thomas.
Does this mean that I should take more philosophy classes? Major in philosophy? Who knows. There are some things about it I don't like, or that I don't find enjoyable. There are some things about writing this essay that I don't find enjoyable. On the other hand, it's working my brain in ways my brain hasn't been worked before, which in my opinion can only be good.
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Date: 2009-10-06 09:19 pm (UTC)That does make sense, and likely is accurate. I can think of half a dozen ways to challenge the argument I made in the paper, and I want to address all of them; since I can, I assume my readers can (and will), too, and they won't be convinced if I don't at least give a token rebuttal to the most plausible few. But then, there's probably an infinite number of counter-arguments for every proposal imaginable, so I can never really win this kind of battle.