The 0th real Wednesday of the year
Nov. 12th, 2003 08:52 pmI've got "Who Needs Sleep?" stuck in my head. This is a result of hanging out in Dr. D's room too much. Actually I don't just go and hang out there, like some people do, I only go there to copy panels (aside from class, of course). Pretty soon I'll actually turn on some music - whatever it may be - and then it won't be stuck in my head anymore, but the real point is about Dr. D's room. Specifically, that I won't have to be hanging out in it anymore. That's right, I finished the PCS panels! All 69-plus-a-few of them[4]! <unnecessary>BWAHAHAHAHAHA!</unnecessary> And I'm quite sure I finished them before anyone else, even Anand! Of course, now there's the handouts, but I don't have to copy those, now do I?
But you see, having finally finished panel 68, what was I supposed to do now? Homework? Yes, I could, but it could all be done later... why do it now? I did do my chemistry homework, though, as that actually is due first thing tomorrow. Now, that left me with only an hour free afterwards, so, in that way, it was like a normal Wednesday. But I didn't *have* to do my chem homework. (Though it was certainly a very good idea.) But from now on, on Wednesdays, I'll have that free time. My zeroth[0] thought of this was essentially "free at last!". My first was a sarcastic "Great, now I'll have to actually think of something else to do."
My second, after wandering around quite a bit, was boredom.
I'm going to have to apologize in advance to all of you now. I know that none of you want to read an entry in which I complain about my life, and that I'm just going to bore you all with this or sound like another whiny teenager. Well, if you don't want to read that, I suggest you skip to the end, which is a good bit and has Mickey in it.[5]
On a slight tangent, my sister gave me a copy of The Salmon of Doubt for my birthday. This is related at all because I happened to have it with me, and read for the rest of the day. It's really great. It's really too bad it could never be finished... (I've actually finished the book now.)
...you know what? Forget it. I really *don't* want to bore you with my perception of how bad my life is, because it isn't. The only things remaining here to remind you of what this entry originally are is the line "My second... was boredom" you saw above, and the fact that "Current Mood" reads bored. Enough of this.
You know, there was originally a point to all this, but I can't remember what it was. So, I'll skip right to the end.
HEY YOU! YEAH, YOU WHO'S SKIPPING ALL THIS[6]! THIS IS THE GOOD BIT!
(This is all approximate, as usual)
(talking about gender-neutral pronouns)
Me: I still like the idea that we just call everybody "it".
Mickey: Yeah, but that has the problem that "it" usually applies to non-living things... and, well, people are living...
Me: That can be changed!
Mickey: Er, yeah, but it requires, ah, delicate operations...
Me: Not at all! You don't have to be delicate in the slightest! Why, you can perform it on huge masses of people all at once!
Mickey: Oh, yeah, that's a great idea, nuke everybody so we can use the word "it". Why not just invent another gender-neutral pronoun[3]?
Me: Because that's a sloppy fix! My solution is more elegant.
Addendum: In good news, the slew of RFJs is finally over. Also, I'll put up an entry chronicling people's responses to last entry's question sometime soon. (I went around asking that question to people much of yesterday and today, and especially last night, when I asked *many* people over AIM.)
-Sniffnoy
[0]I've decided to start using zero-indexing all the time.
[3]SPIVAK! Hehe, I really like the sound of that. Actually we were talking about the Spivak pronoun originally, which was how we got to that. Did you know that the Spivak that invented the Spivak pronoun is the same Spivak who wrote the calculus textbook? Well, I suppose that would be really obvious if you've ever read the textbook, but I haven't. Apparently he does use it in there.
[4]The numbers run from 0 to 68 (yay zero-indexing!), but there's also a few with "numbers" like "49b".
[5]For the reason this paragraph is struck out, look 2 paragraphs down.
[6]Even though you shouldn't be, as I deleted the parts you'd want to skip.
--
"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
-Samuel Goldwyn
But you see, having finally finished panel 68, what was I supposed to do now? Homework? Yes, I could, but it could all be done later... why do it now? I did do my chemistry homework, though, as that actually is due first thing tomorrow. Now, that left me with only an hour free afterwards, so, in that way, it was like a normal Wednesday. But I didn't *have* to do my chem homework. (Though it was certainly a very good idea.) But from now on, on Wednesdays, I'll have that free time. My zeroth[0] thought of this was essentially "free at last!". My first was a sarcastic "Great, now I'll have to actually think of something else to do."
I'm going to have to apologize in advance to all of you now. I know that none of you want to read an entry in which I complain about my life, and that I'm just going to bore you all with this or sound like another whiny teenager. Well, if you don't want to read that, I suggest you skip to the end, which is a good bit and has Mickey in it.
On a slight tangent, my sister gave me a copy of The Salmon of Doubt for my birthday. This is related at all because I happened to have it with me, and read for the rest of the day. It's really great. It's really too bad it could never be finished... (I've actually finished the book now.)
...you know what? Forget it. I really *don't* want to bore you with my perception of how bad my life is, because it isn't. The only things remaining here to remind you of what this entry originally are is the line "My second... was boredom" you saw above, and the fact that "Current Mood" reads bored. Enough of this.
You know, there was originally a point to all this, but I can't remember what it was. So, I'll skip right to the end.
HEY YOU! YEAH, YOU WHO'S SKIPPING ALL THIS[6]! THIS IS THE GOOD BIT!
(This is all approximate, as usual)
(talking about gender-neutral pronouns)
Me: I still like the idea that we just call everybody "it".
Mickey: Yeah, but that has the problem that "it" usually applies to non-living things... and, well, people are living...
Me: That can be changed!
Mickey: Er, yeah, but it requires, ah, delicate operations...
Me: Not at all! You don't have to be delicate in the slightest! Why, you can perform it on huge masses of people all at once!
Mickey: Oh, yeah, that's a great idea, nuke everybody so we can use the word "it". Why not just invent another gender-neutral pronoun[3]?
Me: Because that's a sloppy fix! My solution is more elegant.
Addendum: In good news, the slew of RFJs is finally over. Also, I'll put up an entry chronicling people's responses to last entry's question sometime soon. (I went around asking that question to people much of yesterday and today, and especially last night, when I asked *many* people over AIM.)
-Sniffnoy
[0]I've decided to start using zero-indexing all the time.
[3]SPIVAK! Hehe, I really like the sound of that. Actually we were talking about the Spivak pronoun originally, which was how we got to that. Did you know that the Spivak that invented the Spivak pronoun is the same Spivak who wrote the calculus textbook? Well, I suppose that would be really obvious if you've ever read the textbook, but I haven't. Apparently he does use it in there.
[4]The numbers run from 0 to 68 (yay zero-indexing!), but there's also a few with "numbers" like "49b".
[5]For the reason this paragraph is struck out, look 2 paragraphs down.
[6]Even though you shouldn't be, as I deleted the parts you'd want to skip.
--
"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
-Samuel Goldwyn
