i'm a little teapot

Item the First: This site is driving me nutso, in that I'm starting to have irreverent mental commentaries in the form of lists whenever I observe things happening around me. Help?

Item the Second: Last Wednesday, on the 26th of August in the Year of Our Lord 2009, I, along with Kari, eviscerated a very dead, and very pregnant, cat. Also, we broke its jaw, sternum, and ribs. And I might as well mention that we accidentally performed dental surgery on a (very dead, and very pregnant) feline. The things we do for our grades science!

I have a sneaking suspicion that all the cats I've encountered since the start of the semester know what I did to their brethren. Or am I just projecting?

Item the Third: I just had a geekgasm of the very worst kind. While reading the first chapter of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, I suddenly realized that while Kant was discussing what it means to do one's duty, he was talking about Mr. Darcy. ( An excerpt from the chapter )

Now, I have two theories as to why Mr. Darcy is intimately tied to Immanuel Kant's concept of the Categorical Imperative.

• Theory the First: Jane Austen had read what Kant had to say about duty and morality, and decided to base one of her male heroes on his idea of the 'moral man'


• Theory the Second: A rabid Austenite, from a period when time travel is possible, and who found the same parallels as I did, travelled back to the 18th century and provided Mr. Kant with a copy of P&P, assuming that he'd like what he'd read, not knowing that Kant had in fact not yet started writing about the Categorical Imperative. Kant, upon finishing the novel, then developed a fanboy crush on Mr. Darcy and decided that Mr. Darcy is indeed the very best kind of man. Thus the Categorical Imperative is born, thereby establishing a paradox.

Personally, the second theory seems more plausible to me. ;p

Item the Fourth: Methinks I shall get sick this weekend, judging from the cough I seem to have developed overnight. My immune system sucks. Leucocytes, verily ye art made of fail.

If I see the word 'eschatology' in any of Paul Ricoeur's works one more time, I'm going to SCREAM.

As usual, xkcd sums up the situation perfectly (only, 'Wikipedia' ought to be substituted by 'the Internet'):



I really shouldn't be let near a computer, especially when I'm supposed to be studying. Behold, the things I've found out ever since I decided to look up 'Lebenswelt' on Google:

1. Lebenswelt is just a fancy way of saying 'the world as lived'

2. Maurice Merleau-Ponty turns out to be a disciple of Edmund Husserl. Now I understand why Husserl is namedropped in almost every other sentence in Merleau-Ponty's generally incomprehensible essay "What is Phenomenology?"

3. Martin Heidegger, whose lecture "What is Philosophy?" introduced me to the not-so-wonderful world of philosophizing in Ph101, is described by them denizens at TIME magazine as an 'odious man with Nazi sympathies'.

4. Sigmund Freud is on the cover of the November 1993 issue of TIME magazine. The puzzle-piece thingies from his head look cool. 8D

5. Jean Piaget looks oddly endearing in this photo. And John Maynard Keynes looks more dapper than I expected.

6. According to the World Economic Forum's 2008 Global Gender Gap Report, the Philippines ranks 6th out of 130 countries in closing the gender gap between men and women. We rank 1st in the Educational Attainment and Health and Survival subindexes, 8th in the Economic Participation and Opportunity index, and 22nd in Political Empowerment. (The full country profile can be found here.) Also, according to the WEF, a nation's economy, health, and productivity increase as the gender gap descreases. We've been in the same rank for the past three years -- why can't I see progress, let me ask you?

wahooo! finals week. sked:

Monday: Th 131 orals (8.30-8.45)
Tuesday: Psy 107 (9.30-11.30)*, Psy 105.1 (1.30-3.30)
Wednesday: Ph 101 orals (10.45-11.00)
Thursday: Psy 110 (5.30-7.30)*



*don't know if i'm going to take these or not. still thinking about it.

ETA (7 Oct., 5.01pm): Decided not to take the Psy107 & 110 finals as it wouldn't make my grade higher anyway. All I've got to look forward to is Philo, and I'm free! xD

ETA 2 (8 Oct., 6.14pm): THE SEMESTER IS OFFICIALLY OVER! *keels over*