thoughts.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Tuesday, 08 September 2009
Thursday, 13 August 2009
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months have turned into weeks.
weeks have flowed into days.
days have slid into hours.
and these hours are slipping into nothing.
I saw some people for the last time today.
lived some moments that will never come back,
remembered some frames that will never leave,
missed some chances,
and made some opportunities.
feels like we’re not really doing this right.
I mean, how do you properly say goodbye to someone anyways?
maybe I’m weird, but I can’t just walk away from a hug and an exchange of a few words feeling like it’s done justice to the end of a relationship.
sure, we’ll keep in touch and see each other again [maybe], but this marks the end of the friendship as we’ve known and lived it. while we’re apart, each of us will change, experience new things, become a slighter different person with a different life.
in my book, that’s the end of a relationship.
Friday, 07 August 2009
Wednesday, 05 August 2009
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tick tock goes the clock.
Saturday, 25 July 2009
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I've been neglecting to spontaneously update my xanga with rambling :[
but now that I have so much free time, I guess I really should.
the question is, there's nothing to really write about...
well. it's been quite a few months since I've spent a whole day at home without stepping out even once, so today was a nice break.
I didn't exercise much and I didn't eat much either, so I guess that cancels out.
I still have later on this evening to exercise, anyway.
gosh, I almost forgot how the sky looks when it's setting on a cloudy day.
this entire summer has consisted of being indoors or having the day be blazingly dry and bright, right til that last minute when the sun slides down behind the trees.
so I started reading this book, it's called Hot, Flat, and Crowded. it's pretty good so far.
I'm interested in how much of an impact it'll have on me.
ugh. I suppose I should go study for my ptce some more before I head out.
I have a nice date with the pool table and a few old friends. :]
Monday, 20 July 2009
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so today, I found out my first official college course.
it's a seminar course that freshmen are required to take. of course, there are a wide variety of subjects offered as seminar courses and the idea is that you'll learn something in a subject that's a bit far away from your normal studies, and they're handed out on a first come first serve basis. I signed up like 20 minutes after registration opened, but they chocolate class I wanted to take filled up pretty quick :[
I have a feeling this class will be pretty interesting as well, though.
German 104-6, Sec. 20
SECRET LIFE OF THE FETISH
INSTRUCTOR: Jörg Kreienbrock
TIME: MWF 2:00-2:50
DESCRIPTION: (Taught in English) Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous characterization of German 19th century art and science as a crass fetish-being introduces the notion of the fetish into the vocabulary of cultural analysis. Since its origin in the ethnographic writings of the enlightenment in the 17th and 18th century, the fetish appears in many different incarnations in such heterogeneous discourses as theology, Marxism, sociology, psychoanalysis, the clinical psychiatry of sexual deviance, modernist aesthetics, popular culture, and anthropology.
This class will give a historical survey of these transformations by focusing on crucial representations of the fetish, fetishism and the fetishist in literature, philosophy, and film.
TEACHING METHOD: Lecture and discussion
READING LIST:
Michel Tournier – The Fetishist.
E.T.A. Hoffmann – Mademoiselle de Scuderi.
Karl Marx – The Capital (selections).
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch – Venus in Furs.
Sigmund Freud – Fetishism.
Theodor W. Adorno – The Culture Industry.
Walter Benjamin – The Arcades Project (selections).
David Lynch – Blue Velvet.
Harun Farocki – Still Life.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OR PERSONAL STATEMENT: Professor Kreienbrock received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the Department of German at New York University. From 2005 to 2006 he held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies at Emory University. In 2006 he joined the German Department of Northwestern University as Assistant Professor. His research and teaching interests include German literature from the 19th to the 21st century with an emphasis on contemporary literature, popular culture and literary theory.
Thursday, 09 July 2009
Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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I’ve never dated an asian. is that weird?
when I was little, I always promised myself I’d marry a korean boy and raise a daughter that knew and loved her culture.
nowadays, everything is about equality and how race shouldn’t have an impact on anything… but what about culture?
I still am determined to pass on my language and my culture to my children.. but I’m kind of scared that it’ll be too hard with a husband who will most likely not be a part of my culture. I'm more likely to gouge my eyes out than let something as superficial as race or nationality affect my choices, but that's going to mean a whole new level of effort on my part when it comes to raising korean children.
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