大英帝国

A while ago, someone insisted on trying to define me as being either republican or conservative (as if those are the only two types of people in the world).
Having recovered from the shock since then, I've found that if anything I'm imperialist. Yes, I know it wasn't a perfect system, French revolution, blahblahblah, but I think in some important senses it has the potential to work better than our current goverments of trend.
And why? Because power was centralized. Because only one individual had the authority to make things happen. (of course, the next step would be making sure that this one person did make the right things happen). Unlike now. Decisions made by far too many people. The problem with that is that the majority aren't informed about everything and therefore aren't really in a position to make the best decisions regarding the governing of any given nation.
I'd make this more essay-ish, but I just woke up and I'm listening to french music right now.. (weird, I know.) It's uhh.... L'amitié by François Hardy. ...at least, that's what it says in my mp3 info. yey. Go parisian French.
Speaking of which, so many languages to learn, and so little mental capacity....
m'eh. As long as I'm having fun, right?

Ert

"That's all very well and good but what does 'inert' mean?"
"...well, um... just simply that it's not... ert."
Ah, British comedy, how we miss thee. Going on to blog about idiots. Because although I can't stand them, apparently I'm one myself. This blog is totally worthless. Anything I want to say I usually like a response ... ...may as well call up sby and chat instead of writing it all here, huh. Hurrah for idiocy! Too bad I'm nothing like Dostoevsky's Myshkin.

情

愛情と友情の違いどころは何処だろう。僕は人の目にどううつっているだろう。表面はどうだろう。我が将来はどうになるだろう。人々は僕が嫌いだろう。もっと早くてトロントへ帰ったほうがよさそう。

Der Alptraum

. . .You know that feeling of futile resistence? No matter how hard you try, you just can't fight off those probing digits or offensive caresses. Either my roommate just molested me in my sleep or a spider crawled by my neck and face, cuz I woke up with the feeling that I was trying to move something from my epidermis that was persistent. But I didn't wake up in a cold sweat or anything; I can still feel the moisturizer I put on before going to bed.
. . .And since I've only gotten a few hours' sleep, I think I should rest up... ... in the afternoon. Kinda hungry now.

New Beginnings

. . .Roomies! I'm not going to type anything negative partly because it's just the beginning of the term so I haven't really gotten to know them yet, and partly because it's just stupid to set oneself up for bad housemate dynamics by publicizing negative feelings on the 'net.
. . .So I just spent about 3 hours chatting with the roomie who's living in the basement with me. Really cool guy, easy to get along with. Although I did more of the talking. I probably irritated the heck out of the poor soul. :( I'm not good with reading people anymore. Or maybe I just stopped deluding myself into thinking that I was any good in the first place. Or maybe general fatigue just has my brain on the fritz.
. . .My courses seem promising so far... the math is forcing me to think logically again, the german is forcing me to study lots and the contemporary Japanese society course forces me to increase my stamina (solid 3 hr night class... in the winter!!) So hopefully some structure will come into my life and help me catch up with all my other projects which so deperately need completion.
. . .I think I should sleep now... Gotta wake up bright and early tomorrow... @_@ Lots to do, people to see, etc... I don't think my body is fully adjusted to this time zone yet... and my lips are killing me; I need chapstick almost as much as I need oxygen!

EDIT 7:00am
. . .In German they gave me a tablet PC to play with for the term. It's really cool, but having to hand-write everything sorta defeats the purpose of having a PC in the first place. But it's still fun to use, and just imagine how much easier it'd be to be running Adobe PhotoShop or illustrator on this thing. When I turn the screen around andflip it so that it's folded and facing up, it automatically becomes portrait! So now I can use portrait type pics for my BG.