Tag: Modern Political Philosophy


Organization, Schmorganization

9
March

I’ve decided to do a little spring cleaning on the blog. I’m reorganizing the categories and tags. Fun stuff, I know. Just the most exciting stuff that you can do on a bright, sunny day.

I took my test. It seemed relatively easy. I want to say that I did well on it, but I know if I did, then I’ll end up getting it back with a failing grade. That’s what always happens. If I think I failed, I passed and vice versa.

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Method to the Madness

8
March

I can almost walk around without my foot feeling like it will fall off. That’s a good thing, right? Well, it still hurts enough that I don’t want to walk on it much. I’ll get this crazy inspiration to walk on it one day, and the next it’ll complain to me about how I’ve abused it by making me writhe in pain.

You know, foot pain is one of the worst kinds of pain. (I should know, having been in pain for the past several years.) It’s there, and it won’t go away without being elevated and iced. That’s nice, but life doesn’t stop for foot pain. It just can’t. If life could stop every time any person was in any kind of pain, then not many people would have lives. Everyone is touched by pain of some sort.

I’m not looking forward to tomorrow at school. I have a test. Having skipped most of the classes leading up to said test because I felt like crap, I’m not actually prepared for it. It’s open book, which is nice, but it would still be nice to know what is going on. I know, I could be studying right now like a sane person would. There are two things that you should know about me:

  1. I am not now, nor have I ever been sane. I find it insulting that you might find me so boring that you would think me such a thing.
  2. Studying causes me to forget. Cramming in about two minutes works, but sitting down daily and studying (or even sitting down the weekend before a test and studying) is a guarantee that I will forget everything that has ever been discussed in the class. This fact points to the above statement about sanity.

I only have one week of school until the time that everyone looks forward to until they have children of their own–Spring Break. Yes, I said Spring Break; that lovely week off from classes where many go to Florida, only to come home with fewer brain cells, not-so-funny diseases, and a 9-month reminder that they had fun. What shall I do? The lovely thing I do EVERY Spring Break–sit at home. Yay much? No, not really. I just like having the days off.

My monthly splurge that I am now allowing myself again was WinDVD 9 Plus Blu-Ray for my laptop. Of course, when buying a product to watch DVDs and Blu-Rays, you would expect to be able to watch DVDs and Blu-Rays. It is a very simple thing that you would expect. What happens with the copy I get? It won’t open…at all. It did install. I was able to get it to do that much, but any way that I try to open the thing makes my computer stop and point and laugh. I don’t like it when my computer laughs at me.

Well, I’m off to elevate and ice my foot. Hopefully, now that the pain is subsiding somewhat, the swelling will also ease. (It’s still the size of a California orange.) Keep your fingers crossed.

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But None of Us Are, Right?

9
February

My Modern Political Philosophy teacher has this thing where he likes to inflame the members of the class by insulting their sensibilities. He doesn’t do it to make them really mad, just to get them involved in the class. He’ll insult Obama in one sentence, then go on to rag on the Republican party in the next. He hasn’t done that the past couple of days, though. Instead, he’s taken to saying that society does not work a certain way because we, the members of society, are not Schizophrenic. This is something that always catches me off guard because technically anyone with Schizoaffective Disorder has the symptoms of Schizophrenia combined with those of a mood disorder. In a technical sense, there is at least one person in the class who is Schizophrenic. And on Friday, he said something about how cutters think and it was a bit insulting. Since I used to cut, I kind of group myself with that group as well.

I’m kind of stuck on this because I love the class, but I hate going in there not knowing if he’s going to say something about something that’s wrong with me and just assume that since we all look “normal” that we all are “normal”. I guess he doesn’t think that anyone with a Schizophrenia-spectrum disorder would be in a Junior level class at a pretty difficult university, but that didn’t stop me. I just don’t get what I should do or say about this because I don’t think it’s right what he’s saying, but I don’t want him to know about my disorder. I’m afraid if people know that I’m going to somehow end up having what happened at A&M repeated. I don’t want to find myself unable to graduate yet again simply because my brain happens to use the neurotransmitters a bit differently from “normal”.

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Do You Think It Odd…

2
February

I just got out of Modern Political Philosophy where we learned that Hobbes basically said that the bigger the government, the bigger the terrorist to the rest of the world. That upsets some people because of it’s implications for the US, but I can understand how it might appear to a smaller nation that we’re a bully. I don’t think that we always try to show our force and pick on other people, but that it sometimes happens, especially when we have had people like Bush running the show (with Cheney as puppet-master) for eight years. I guess what I’m trying to say is that the government can appear to be this cunning and manipulative power that is out to get the rest of the world, but I don’t think that they really are out to get them…anymore.

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