- 06/30/07 04:38 PM – My alarm thing is still working, though I have also been relying on the diphenhydramine… Correspondance (pleasure and determinism), the article with me in the Journal and Courier, slow cooker pot roast, and video feeds…
- 06/30/07 04:45 PM – I set my last video journal as a reply to Four Eyed Monsters on YouTube, and they posted a comment back. ( _ ) It was pretty cool. I think this a really good example of how new technologies inspire rather than destroy sociality.
- 06/30/07 11:40 PM – I just got back a while ago from reading at Starbucks. I finished Tiger’s Pursuit of Pleasure and got back into Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. I put my pot roast into containers when I got home (it seems to taste ok, but not stellar) and now I’m watching Episode 1 of Four Eyed Monsters’s video podcast. I took my diphenhydramine HCL earlier tonight. I’m going to try and get up 30 minutes earlier tomorrow morning. It’s hard for me to sleep because sleep is boring. To sleep I have to be too tired to pay attention to anything else that might be amusing, or I have to find an inner amusement that will ease me into sleep. Sometimes I can find a question that occupies my brain in such a way that I can sleep. Maybe it is similar to counting (unfortunately, that doesn’t work for me).
- 07/01/07 12:52 AM – Ok, so I watched all of the episodes (except 7.6 which is now downloading). It’s so incredible seeing the creative process behind the movie. Watching these videos makes me feel lucky that I am here at this moment to experience them, the way I might have felt watching the first performance of Mozart’s Requiem. This world sucks, and art is the only thing that really keeps me alive. I wish I could find a way to open up that side of myself.
- 07/01/07 02:19 AM – I just had my first real yawn. Why am I not more tired? I played my viola and now I’m catching up on feeds.
Daily Journal Entry #11505 06/30/07 Sat
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Daily Journal Entry #11504 06/29/07 Fri
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- 06/30/07 04:26 PM – I quickly dashed off the UIUC housing form, finished Pan’s Labyrinth (it was just ok), and did my video journal.
- 06/30/07 04:41 PM – Oh yes, I went to Dog and Suds with Hubert and Donovan, and got a call from a reporter at the Journal and Courier trying to get a blogger’s response to the Vikram Buddhi case.
- 06/30/07 04:35 PM – In the evening I went to read at Starbucks.
- 06/30/07 12:12 PM – After Starbucks I watched Children of Men. It’s set in the near future where there are like 20 years that no children are born. It ended up being a really good movie. I almost wasn’t sure if I would be able to finish it because it was really emotional. I always identify with the suffering, and there were a lot of immigrants being mistreated in the movie.
Daily Journal Entry #11503 06/28/07 Thu
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- 06/28/07 10:34 PM – I got up at 9:30 a.m. again — my system seems to be working. I gifted myself with some of The Prestige, processed some electronic communications, and then sunk into a hole setting up my computer accounts at UIUC. The goal was complete a housing form to live in the dorms at UIUC, but then I got doubts and decided to sleep on it after looking at the cost of some other apartments.
- 06/28/07 10:38 PM – I got sucked into trying to repair my old FM transmitter and forgot about my atheism discussion group! I got there 30 minutes and sped past my problems with Lionel Tiger’s sociobiological explanation of fireplaces/tobacco and suburbs, then we talked a little about pleasure itself. (Someone’s question left me wondering what damage is done by placing other emotions like fear under the umbrella of pleasure — is it too reductive?)
- 06/28/07 10:48 PM – I finished the sandwich I made before rushing off to ADG and also finished The Prestige — what a wonderful movie! I love how science is regarded as “real magic” in the movie. Like in this quote: “Oh, and if you need some inspiration, there’s a technical exposition at the
Hall this week. Engineers, scientists, you know? That sort of thing catches a public’s imagination.” - 06/28/07 10:53 PM – Now I am at Starbucks. I came here to catch up on my journal.
- 06/30/07 04:37 PM – I think I started Pan’s Labyrinth when I got home.
Daily Journal Entry #11502 06/27/07 Wed
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- 06/28/07 10:39 AM – I succeeded in waking up at 9:30 a.m. I processed miscellaneous tasks and time passed.
- 06/30/07 04:29 PM – One of my tasks was faxing this form to Verizon, which took forever.
- 06/28/07 10:53 AM – Ah yes, I did take a trip to get groceries. I curse the physical world.
- 06/28/07 10:41 AM – In the evening I was taping some wires on the power adapter to my laptop together when the tip went down the big hole in our living room. I lifted the grate and scrounged around down below with a microphone stand, but I couldn’t quite see it. I had gone down into the basement to see if I could get into the pipe that way, but I couldn’t. I also surmised that the pipe would not be strong enough for me to go down into it. After a break to watch most of So You Think You Can Dance I went back to fishing. Donovan helped for a while, but he was certain that it wasn’t down there. I looked around again to see if it had bounced off the grate and landed on the carpet, but it was nowhere to be found — it had to have gone down into the hole. I fortified this contraption I made with the microphone stand and a plastic container and scooped a lot of fuzz and random objects (though nothing exciting) — my own archaeological dig — but I still couldn’t even see the piece I was looking for. Eventually I went back down into the basement to see if I could get into the pipe from the bottom. That was when I found that there was a slight gap at the base of the pipe where it was fitted to a smaller pipe and discovered that Donovan was right — the piece I was looking for had fallen through a hole in the pipe onto the floor of the basement. Success!
- 06/28/07 10:53 AM – A friend advised me to try treating my sleep issues with some Tylenol PM. I got some generic “sleep aid” that just has the sleeping stuff and no analgesic. It seems to have worked well. I wonder how it functions…
Daily Journal Entry #11501 06/26/07 Tue
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- 06/27/07 12:49 AM – I woke up around 9:30 a.m. today, but I didn’t get out of bed until around 11:30 a.m. Today was pretty uneventful. I just read about pleasure and sociobiology, and played games.
Daily Journal Entry #11500 06/25/07 Mon
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- 06/25/07 08:54 AM – I am at Krispy Kreme.
- 06/25/07 01:30 PM – I’ve been here at Krispy Kreme this whole time — it’s time to transition. I read for a couple of hours and then worked on my journal — why don’t I ever learn to just keep up with it?
- 06/25/07 08:13 PM – What a strange day… I stopped by Office Depot after Krispy Kreme and came home. Then Katie came over and Hubert watched So You Think You Can Dance with us after I did some operating on my old laptop (Katie and Hubert were afraid I was going to shock myself). Hubert and Katie exchanged dance stories.
- 06/27/07 12:56 AM – Katie went home for a bit, then we went to Taco Rico (I got Carolyn’s OK). We drove to Battleground to look for ghosts, but it was closed. So we came home and listened to music (we share a huge segment of similar tastes) and then she gave me a tarot reading.
Daily Journal Entry #11499 06/24/07 Sun
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- 06/28/07 10:22 PM – I was supposed to call Katie in the afternoon to hang out, but I was still awake from the night before at 1, and I wasn’t sure how long I would be able to stay awake. I feel asleep at some point and then woke up again at 7 p.m. or so. I still wasn’t sure what my sleep was doing, so I didn’t call Katie, but later found that I had missed her call shortly after I had woken up. I called her back around 9 p.m. but started feeling sleepish again and decided to stay in to see what would happen.
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Daily Journal Entry #11498 06/23/07 Sat
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- 06/24/07 06:39 AM – Oh my… I woke up “today” around 4 p.m, then went to Suzanne’s chocolate fondue 25th birthday party and had a good time talking to Angie (I also learned that Suzanne got engaged). After that I came home and spent time online, reading, and then online again. And now, here I am… I think I will try to reset (or at least roll) my cycle by staying up as long as I can.
Daily Journal Entry #11497 06/22/07 Fri
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- 06/28/07 10:19 PM – Time passed… (More Warcraft.)
- 06/23/07 12:03 AM – I went to Hunters with Somaieh and we talked about polyamory and determinism.
- 06/23/07 05:46 AM – Played Warcraft and listened to Keith and the Girl live — for a long time.