( Let's pretend that I'm not a massive geek... )

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 05:35 "To be honest, I would have liked to have Jenson much as my teammate, because I would have well understood him. [sic, MSTotal GTrans]" *sob* #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 19:57 Better star-crossed than crossed stars. #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 07:12 ...Except when the little bird wants him. *sigh* Happy birthday to me. #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 21:13 Whether or not it's going to go all WW on the track, the English and German press reports already seem amusingly at odds with each other. #
• 21:18 Vive la nationalistic bias, eh. Though BBC's cavalier mashing of speculation and fact slightly disturbs me. "Are you Mirror in disguise..." #
• 21:21 Been swilling vodka over the driver situation for weeks, of course. Or would have been if it weren't for the essays. Oh, the humanity. #
• 06:07 I see Brackley was too noisy. Dead to me. #

"Privacy is so empty of curiosity that we are
compelled to slap it on our Wall for all to see.
If we are lucky, a Friend refurbishes it with a comment."
- Lovink & Rossiter, Web 2.0 Theses

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 20:59 *sniff* Last race of the season. ;_; #
• 06:07 I might have gone blind and certainly mad, but I've finally finished up my presentation+handouts for the class...oh...a few hours from now. #
• 06:08 Would I have finished faster if I hadn't spent much of the weekend doodling Nico - uh, angsting about the last race? I wouldn't like to say. #
• 06:09 It probably didn't help that I ended up with about 5k words. How long does it take to read out about 5k words? #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 02:48 Dimi! How can you fluff up all the tap-ins and then produce a moment of sublimity just as I say 'it's not *if* he's sold, it's *when*'?! #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 23:50 3 Panadol boxes = 1 singular pill?! *clears up medicine cabinet in search of pain relief...or Crit Theory pres relief, at any rate* #

( CYBUNNY + RUKI + AISHA + 9YO PEOPHIN )

I HAVE LOST MY MOJO AND CANNOT DRAW not least because I have two pres'es and papers due hemhem so I have resorted to doodling relatively-anime crap while taking allergy breaks from sifting through old library tomes. For some reason, I had the urge to gijinkafy my, uh, beloved Neopets. NEOPETS. My [faerie] Peophin was my one and only for many years running till I eventually succumbed to the charms of my [ghost] Ruki, then very luckily managed to catch my [desert] Cybunny during Cybunny day in the same year. It took another year or two before I threw in the towel and rounded off my paddock with my only girl, my long-planned [sketch] Aisha. If you know anything about Neopets and have been silently totalling the cost of all the paintbrushes I've spent on this crew...yeah, man, I don't even. No prizes guessing which one is my favourite [but that's just mean, isn't it].

Of course, the irony is that this is the first time I'm making an LJ post in a month, and the net has just gone down. Three years later...

...Or one day later; for once it was just maintenance, rather than a spontaneous combustion knocking out our life-support system for a week. As an unrelated addendum, my body seems to be ramping up its efforts to be as disagreeable as possible during times of great duress - for ages it seemed satisfied with stress-induced diarrhea, but last year it discovered the ability to break out the ravaging skin diseases over the course of the term. This year, not satisfied with diarrhea and ravaging skin diseases, it has decided on crippling headaches coming to the business end of the semester. Freud would say these are all hysterical symptoms pointing to my deep unwillingness to do work, which is just bull honestly, I love my work, I love - wait, what's that? I really don't want to do my work? By Jove, Freud was right. NOW IF I COULD JUST FIND THE CHAPTER THAT TELLS ME HOW TO NOT GET INTO TROUBLE FOR NOT DOING THE WORK.

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 03:48 Was absolutely gutted - less 'oh I'm so gutted,' more 'hung up on meathook' way - by possible developments over the 2010 Brawn seats today. #
• 03:49 Then Williams finally got the Sunday logs up and the little bird's blog had a sweet congrats to the new World Champion. Oh, Britney. #
• 03:50 Telling myself now that if they'd become teammates their relationship would probably have deteriorated, needing to beat each other so badly. #
• 03:50 But, oh, my selfish heart, disbelieving from the first till lately timid hope (no thanks, Nico, Fry, and that bloke what does for Red Bull). #
• 03:52 I really should have just stuffed all that in an LJ entry. #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 00:47 I know he's been due a DNF, but - aagh. That's the end of the race for me. ...Not interested in how the Button does...no...not at all... >_> #
• 01:26 @stereophilic Just trying to keep Button in the Trending Topics now, aren't we? #
• 01:28 Tangentially - I presume those wondering where the Button pulled out all those overtakes from haven't kept an eye on his racing lately. #
• 01:31 Not that I've got the race on telly, Autosport Live, and BBC Live running all at the same time or anything - OH JUST DO IT JENS - ER, BUTTON #
• 01:44 Oh, Jens. 10 FRIGGIN' YEARS OF WATCHING YOU. Oh, Nico. The *only* time you've been absent from parc fermé this season. *weep* Button. #
• 02:07 Oh yeah, chuffed for Mark and Rob too, but - oh, my poor little bird. And just to keep it in Trending Topics a bit longer: Jenson Button. #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 03:29 @tedkravitz "[stewards are] discussing at the moment so that's all I can say for now" Likely ordered to divulge nothing b4 verdict. Prudent. #
• 05:23 Have forgotten Perfumed Nightmare/Bontoc Eulogy analysis post multiple times over the course of the day (and night). #
• 05:25 Freud has a lot to say about things like this in PoED. None of which include having to pull an all-nighter to do it anyway. Psychiatrists. #

stereophilic reminded me that it'll be weeks or at least days before she'll get to post her detailed recap, so I'll have to store up my Homeric verses and just leave this post here as a marker that today - angel.

My Adv. Crit Theory prof opined that Hillis Miller may be the best literary reader alive. Is it very bad that when he mentioned his age (81) the thought 'not for long' flashed across my mind? To be fair, he might have a good 10+ years left in him; he may well outlast us all.

Due to a series of events, some more unfortunate than others, I ended up with a copy of his On Literature as additional additional reading for the course - which I wouldn't mind if we didn't have the masses of Heidegger, Freud, and Cixous to worry about for the next class alone [again, to be fair, Freud and Cixous are pretty comfy, but Heidegger always makes me break out the heavy duty highlighters]. Having said that, it's an enjoyable read - a little self-evident [and Routledge desperately needs better proofreaders], but the target audience is obviously quite wide, and he does manage to pull in a number of theorists and heavy-handed writers quite innocuously. It's more of an explicational conversation [or monologue] than anything specifically critical or theoretical, and his nostalgic emphasis on The Swiss Family Robinson in his ultimate argument irks me simply because it's a text I can barely remember from early childhood but do remember being annoyed considerably by, but it's almost worth it just to see him go 'BBQ, D.H!'

Most importantly, it's fast enough to be completed in MRT tripx2 + dinner wait + 1 concentrated sitting at home. Heidegger tomorrow.

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 19:42 Fingers desperately crossed for the Button today, especially with the bird pretty much out of points contention. #
• 19:45 Er - I mean, citation is such tedious work with unconventional media. Still uncut, but I'll leave it and revise Lucretius today instead. #
• 19:46 The first [and likely last] time I've ever done an essay almost a full week ahead of the due date! Exciting, I know. #

Cleared up two weeks of readings in advance so that I could start my midterm essay two weeks in advance - so I finished last night [sans cutting, but with biblio] almost a week before the deadline. Par for course for most, I know, but for me it's the first [and probably] last time. Fortuitous, anyway, since I got distracted in a variety of ways this last week...

3. This doesn't really count because I've been keeping my hand in by crap-sketching the same subject over and over - these are particularly casual, but I'm just surprised I actually kept it up through all three race weekend days, demonstrating that indeed I only ever feel compelled to do stuff when things go balls up. Pencil scribbling on blue-line sketching, leveled and desat'd:

( Friday above, Saturday and Sunday crying buckets in here )

Been trying to experiment a lot more [relatively speaking] lately, am struggling, but, baby steps - this may sound incongruous with my empty LJ and dA, but I've actually got about five or ten other sketch-pieces in the same vein [with occasional guests...]. On one hand I'm really grateful that this fandom *cough* keeps me pushing. On the other, I'm mortified that I'm now constantly drawing what I've always hated.

2. The Beatles: Rock Band. Come on. It was worth killing myself the week before just to make room for this. I'm not actually a Beatles fan - the only Beatles I'd heard before this year were the perennial karaoke picks "Yesterday," "Let it Be Stevie G," "Hey Jude," "Eleanor Rigby" courtesy of a friend I miss, and the Carpenters' version of "Ticket to Ride." Only one of which, now that I look back at the list, made it into the game. But I am a fan of Rock Band and I know a good thing when I see one, so two months ago in preparation for the release we...procured the relevant bits of the Beatles discography and turned ourselves into Beatles fans. :D The game turned out to be everything I could've wished for - I do agree it's too short at 45 songs, but I do also understand why - and the vocal harmonies alone are worth the price of admission.

3. Champions Online. So much for waiting for the kinks to be ironed out and picking it up in December. It's just...we're just...we only got one copy...we're just...checking it out...it doesn't...really count...

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 21:27 Poor little bird. But that still doesn't mean you should hold out, Williams. #
• 00:52 Despite the appalling demolition of the glass cannon that is Arsenal [ba-ching] it was really nice to see Rosa on the pitch again. #
• 00:54 Now continuing my essay [greatly aided by said demolition] to the collapse of the Fergie empire. #
• 02:50 Oh, Scholesy - everyone knew it was coming and wish you hadn't done it anyway. At least I did because I knew that sub would have to come. #
• 03:32 Got distracted by "I Love the 80s & 90s" MTV Mix. And I'm so close too - come on, one last argument! The trimming's another story... #

"Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don't you ever think?"

• 07:13 *4 hours later* For the love of - *how* do you get insomniac from *Derrida*?! #