so now i have to work on a senior capstone project, which is sort of a culminating thingy to prove to those people at school, "wowee, she DID learn something after all!" my seminar instructor and i seem to speak two different languages. she doesn't get me and i have no idea what the hell she wants out of this. no matter, because i have two individual advisors on the project to help me decipher all this academic gobbledygook and press on with it.
i'm supposed to be creating a public awareness campaign on the causes, effects, and possible treaments regarding compulsive hoarding. yes, i am addicted to all those shows that involve getting the shit out of your house and rearranging your leftover shit into some kind of functional order. now i just hope i can translate these scientific equations derived from social science research into some discernible form of "hey, look at this" to present at the end of the term. if it's successful, i graduate. whoop-a-dee-doo for me. i'm just relieved that both of my advisors are cool enough to understand me and get that i'm not doing this project to get published in some random academic journal that no one will ever read; that is, unless they're forced to do research like i'm doing now. we're sticking with the "just get it over with" mantra.
for now, the rest of my school life is strangely calm. it would seem that i can grasp the ideas of sociological and political theory with some bizarre amount of ease that makes perfect sense to me. how freakish is that? the information overload aspect of it is no picnic, but the base theories are strikingly similar in thematic importance. perhaps learning how to scan my texts just for the relevant statements is beginning to pay off for me. goodness knows i can't take serious reading on the subject anymore.
on other nerdy topics, i almost fell on the floor today after watching "fear the boom and bust" online. it's a rap video done as an intellectual duel between john maynard keynes and f.a. hayek, two quintessential economists. i found it after listening to a planet money podcast. if you haven't seen it yet, it's very high on the EEE! scale from me. just imagine these two dead white guys duking it out over economic principles, all while being righteous homies with street cred, and you'll understand the humor involved. go see it, trust me.
singers i love this week:
nellie mckay
pink
stevie wonder
jill sobule
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