I needed to sleep more last night: a study in mental processes

[crankyoldman]

Mentalbreak:

So I accidentally pirated the movie Hard Candy which was surprising good (in a OMG WTF THRILLER) way and reminded me one of the things I love about certain modern narrative/characterization devices: what you are sympathizing with at the moment can be unsettling and cause you to evaluate things. Especially when good and bad aren't obvious. Lust, Caution managed some similar things, so it's kind of interesting that movie trend. Ah, movie theatre work, you have finally corrupted me fully, not only do I look for certain directors/producers now, but I actually analyze camera techniques and script flow. Damn you.

Productivity:

Got all shit done. Yay! Took some Red Bull and a break to watch said movie, because the brain can only take so much. My room, though, is a complete mess now. Entropy increases with stress (which works with thermodynamics as stress tends to mean more heat which means more disorder hence entropy).

Exam:

Still kind of powering down from that. I think it was hit or miss with the multiple choice and the true-false, and I think I might have rocked the picture section more this time. The essay can go a couple ways, depending on if I sounded too hippie or not. I somehow managed to write an essay which was supposed to be about comparing the advancements in the cotton industry to the precision tooling of metals and their impact on industrialization. I ended up with some crazy tie between cotton, fashion, and consumerism to the nerdy interchangeability of machine parts. And how technically they both had an equal impact as you cannot have one without the other and so forth. Experience has taught me that when given two choices, always pick the third. And sound smart.

Oh god I think this means I'm overeducated now.

I think now I will pass out and hopefully not wake up to having failed that exam and thus have to wait a fucking year to finish school. Happy thoughts! I will now use my sheer will to make that not happen. But sleep first.

~Cendri

P.S. In other news, I am increasingly being pissed off by eco-yuppies. $90 is a STEAL?! Surely you jest. Creating an eco class totally reverses any good your little self-wank ecologism does, you (editorial you) realize. I get far more awesome-vibes seeing "made from recycled materials" on average, cheap, mass-produced things than your special snowflake nonprofit blech.

Sorry, pet peeve. Eco-yuppies and enviroweenies just really get my goat, especially considering that I've been trying harder to ease my consumption habits.

Comments

[tijuana-pirate.livejournal.com]

... $90 for a silver necklace with birdies? Wasn't the whole hippie environmentalist movement against consumerism?

-T. pirate

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

It's kind of a pretty necklace...if the birds weren't there.

Being overeducated is good thing right.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. ^^

*Speaks bad Latin at you!*

~Cendri

[astralavator.livejournal.com]

You don't need education just a search engine.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

Well, that is a far more useful form of education these days, sometimes. XD

~Cendri

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, Liz, I have to respectfully disagree on the necklace thing. It was $90 for the women funded by Nest. Nest provides microloans for women in developing countries who have families to support. This helps them to keep a roof over their head and food in their children's mouths. It also gives them a job in the fashion industry. If you go to http://shop.buildanest.com/collections/global-goods , you can see the objects specifically sold by the women they have helped.

I'm all about fair trade and giving women in developing countries a chance. If I had the money, I would definitely donate to this website. That's why I used to be so hardcore about shopping at Latitude Zero when it was in town. Sure, it was expensive, but it's going to women who sorely need it. Buuut that might be because I'm a dirty feminist.

[(Anonymous)]

Baaah... I keep forgetting to sign in. ;p It's Emily.

[venefica-aura.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with the cause, really, it's the sort of... flaunty way that some people get into causes, is all. When they're not just wanting to help someone they want to look so giving and wonderful for being in it. Or point out they have the money to donate, as donations that are cheap (but something!) tend to be looked down upon.

I mean, I know you're the complete opposite of that, but the eco-yuppies can be really annoying about such things. When a normal person with a decent income feels like they can't donate much, then you're missing the spirit of helping people. It's likely not the charity's fault, either, just the hey big spender attitude that can happen. If you've got the money to drop $90 on a necklace and that's somehow a deal, what do you pay for other things? Are they always benevolent and for charity or is it part of your bottled water fund?

And it's ok to be a dirty feminist. XD Like I said, I've nothing wrong with the cause, it's a clever idea.

~Cendri