Well, I've done it, I'm completely nocturnal now.

*this phenomenon is experienced much differently is you are sleeping on job vs. unemployed.

THEY SEE ME ROLLIN'

AND NOW, AT LAST, TO SLEEP

this is what happens when ur gf and favourite sport are in opposite timezones, and ur working from home at ur own pace

this, now = me. It's taken the oppressive chill and consecutive essay all-nighters to seal it.

my natural sleeptime if i leave it uncontrolled is something like 6am to 3pm. to leave it be and never see any sunlight, or not?

davek that is understandable but this is my *actual* cycle now and has been solidifying for a while

merdeyeux yeah I do believe you shd renounce vitamin d

Try not to leave it be. Sunlight deprived waking hours are a depression cocktail.

this is a shit idea

i didn't see daylight for twelve days once

srsly tho if yr 15 and u got counterstrike//drambuie/3am fryups/baileys haagen dazs it makes sense for a bit

but u gotta grow out of it

what if u grow into it in early adult phase

due to circumstances

do u got any cane rats

cuz u will

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xp to nak

not depressed fwiw; am working & earning, which strikes me as being a key component of fulfilment in 21st c western society; earnings bring me closer to visiting gf; england are killing it in the ashes; my own hours correspond with gf's for maximum skype coordination

rly the only thing I'm missing is my friends*, and they'll see me at some point

*ok and the open air, but it's fucking cold

nah i do appreciate that no sunlight is hellaciously dark times and i do my all to avoid it. difficult to find the motivation when i'm unemployed, though. but hey i gotta get up early to go talk to my friends* about their ridiculous meillassoux projects, innit.

k i guess i'm in precisely the opposite situation that louis is in.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2594/3750709297_1701e390b6.jpg

hey where did my asterisks go. asterisk for unemployed, leading to the second paragraph.

I just finished The Turn of the Screw and it chilled my bones rightly. It's probably too late to start the introduction to Ulysses...although I can't wait to dive in at the appropriate time.

lol the turn of the screw is actually a treatise on adolescent sexuality but as a society we are petrified of going there which in itself is problematic

am working & earning, which strikes me as being a key component of fulfilment in 21st c western society

= fuck a socialism, sall about CASH MONEY

Louis, we haven't spoken in a while - it seems like life is really good?

I always encounter some dip in my academic and social lives, as we move towards christmas...it's bloody inevitable. I must have some chemical deficiency where I require a surfeit of sunlight to stay afloat. Some kind of seasonally-affected depression..all I know is that it happens every year, blotting the promise of term's early weeks.

tbf to ya pretty much everyone i know who is a self-motivating academic has fallen apart in terms of productivity since the clocks changed. but then i am living in scotland with our glorious seven hours of daylight.

yeah even if u get up at 8am in london yr still not get gonna a lot of light

am working & earning, which strikes me as being a key component of fulfilment in 21st c western society

= fuck a socialism, sall about CASH MONEY

you didn't pick up that I was slyly deprecating my own principles and criticising *the way things are* and how we are conditioned? christ

no srsly fuck a socialism, sall about CASH MONEY

I'm not earning a massive deal, just enough to do what I want to do in order to fulfil myself in more broad-minded and deeply meaningful ways - my work in itself is fulfilling as it involves learning and writing - my poetry is correspondingly effulgent - and as I say, that comment was critical, not celebratory

oh wait u weren't impugning u were instructing

u sound like nrq now haha

also davek, life is utterly not as I've known it before...but weirdly better than it has been for a while, seasonal misery notwithstanding

in cab today trying not to lol while gants hill psycho argues w/ wife abt washing machine, saw someone had daubed

REVOLUTION....NO CUTS

on 'ryan' nelson's column

tear down western society or.....just don't be SUCH heartless cunts and we'll be chill w/ that tbh

we all gonna go beat nrq to death with the corpses of deleuze derrida and zizek (yeah we can kill him) now?

nb i'm mildly claustrophobic and central london crowds make me even more ~wired~ than usual

my gf has written potted summaries of left-wing thinkers from the 20th century and of them all, zizek strikes me as being the most negative

by potted summaries I actually mean exquisite 100-syllable poems

back in the early 90s (i think) zizek campaigned for the slovenian presidency w/ a centre-vaguely left group. v suspicious.

didn't he come 4th in the slovenian presidential election

something like that. wouldn't be our #1 marxist revolutionary now if he was livin it up as a pseudo-dictator, that's for sure.

tear down western society or.....just don't be SUCH heartless cunts and we'll be chill w/ that tbh

iirc there is a natural entropy for those in power to exercise their capacity for cunt to what tends towards a maximum

even though i like z i liked this little blog post questioning some of his credentials and legitimacy: http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2010/11/slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEek-wants-to-see-a-bloodbath.html

zizek does make u think, he's erudite in a scattershot kinda way that is the only way i can ever hope to be erudite

he's adept at self-promotion/cash-money-hoes, and he would be politically irresponsible in the extreme if he had any political influence

so i read his lrb pieces or whatever else i get emailed and try to 'think critically' about him

and i'm glad i don't have to try to srsly engage his stuff in an academic context

ya he's difficult to engage with cuz when you get fundamental with him he's trying to pass himself off as being nothing but a straight hegelian and/or lacanian, and whaddya do then? getting into the details of the exegesis of those fellas is like throwing yrself into the labyrinth. i'm happy to treat him as an amusing sideshow and hope i don't ever have to deal with him as anything more.

thankfully i have too poor concentration to even begin getting lost in the lacanian labyrinth

i like his use of diagrams to ~complicate~ text tho

but carles does it better

he's erudite in a scattershot kinda way that is the only way i can ever hope to be erudite

i think for most of us, having time + inclination 2 post 2 ilx for multiple hours per day lends itself naturally to a broad but capricious erudition - nothing wrong with that tho

carles is like the square root of POSITIVE one motherfuckers.

carles is a droll bro

i'm alternating between zizek talk and x factor live blogging here, capricious (striving towards) erudition is all i have.

btw davek what is going on in yr life

Well, I didn't get any sleep last night, first of all!

Uni is uni. I guess the most notable news is that I've dived head first into the student journalism scene, writing on film for any student publication that will have me. The student 'media conglomerate' Pi has a Radio 4-style arts show on Rare FM, and I've also been doing these little radio segments on the films out that week....next friday's is the Year in Film 2010 round-up (surely you had a radio show in your Cambers days?). It's been very fulfilling, and the journalistic writing has actually worked wonders on my academic prose style.

You have a job, and a lady! I have neither....yet.

I slept from about 1.30 pm to midnight, then from 6.30 am to 8 am, which was odd

You're still a student, you don't need to worry about either of those things so much...yet! :P But yeah, godspeed and all. Go to lots of events and be yr non-capriciously erudite, engaging self and women will fling themselves yither

Swell about the radio journalism - I did indeed have my own show as well as a place on the committee - it struck me as being a much more rewarding and fun enterprise than the murky and literally throwaway world of print journalism - although yeah a bit of journalistic prose-vigour does work wonders. Writing essays to schedule does the same. ;)

their ridiculous meillassoux projects