Doodles

This'll only make sense to people who know something about Informal Logic Fallacies.

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#1: Shoelace Shambles

Once during my time in Katimavik, near the end of my trip, I decided to post a list of things that irritate me and I found that it was incredibly easy to do such a thing.

Unfortunately, the list was never really legible due to some weird formatting bug, but I found that the act of posting such a list relieved a lot of the tension I was feeling near the end of Katimavik.

I've fixed the list, and it can be found here.

I am now launching an entire blog initiative based on this concept. I can't say I'm living a particularly stressful life at the moment, but I like the concept of having content to write every day.

That's not to say that I'm abandoning the concept of life updates on my blog, but henceforth they shall be accompanied with something irritating. I'll also be trying to add way more pictures to posts, as people have suggested. Featuring original photography whenever possible!

Without further ado, I present to you my first topic: shoelaces.

You know when you go to tie a shoe, and you notice that one side of the lace is much longer than the other? You have to make a huuuuge loop just so you use that entire side of the lace, and it just ends up becoming loose anyway.

Sure, you could de-lace the shoe and make it even, but more often than not you're on your way out and you just don't have the time to do that. Eventually, you forget about the shoe, but subconsciously you know something's wrong. You know something's uneven on you, and you inevitably end up looking at your shoe once in a while and damning the shoelace.

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Waking up.

Today I woke up and I had the impulsion to go on Youtube and listen to "All the single ladies". I don't want to put a ring on it.

Cream of the crop.

Top student in the class.

There, I said it. I've never really been the top of any of my classes that I ever took in my schooling career. I'd definitely been... almost at the very bottom a number of times, but never the last, and definitely never the first.

So here I am - I have the highest grade in a class of 40 people, at the time that I write this.

Am I going to say I don't feel good? Do you expect some anti-climax?

Well, no, naturally, I feel pretty good about myself right now. I always used to envy all the people who somehow managed to be the best in the class. You always judge them, well, I do anyway.

They must have no lives.

Well, I never really thought that, I think that's a stupid thing to say, you have no life. It doesn't mean anything. Don't say it to people, it's not cool.

I feel part of this elite club now. Suddenly the type of people who used to not associate with me because I wasn't as good as them are the ones I find having the most in common with right now, in a classroom setting. It's so funny the way things work out.

Of course, in a class where a majority of the people either don't care much or just really struggle with the concepts, it's not saying a whole lot. I don't understand it - I find the class really easy. Do I think differently than the rest? Well, obviously, but I mean, for some reason, some people just can't grasp the notion, for example, of why

Q -> P
P

-

Q

isn't a valid argumentative form (for those who haven't learnt that philosophy mumbo-jumbo, it states that if Q, then P. P, therefore Q).

And they ask questions (actually most people in the class don't even bother to, and this exasperates the teacher even more), simple questions really, that I figured were understood.

I'm glad I took this course.

Edit 2011/10/04: Edited for grammar. Also, I should say that I wrote this post as a sort of ego-booster, but I hardly consider myself superior to anyone else.

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Zombies walk, racing thoughts.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhh.

Pirate costume put together two hours before the Toronto Zombiewalk. The scar/wound is pretty cool no? It's oatmeal, liquid latex and spirit gum (?) is how you make it.

Anyway, Zombiewalk was coooooool, lots and lots of zombies. Some compliments, a lot of photographers.

Uhhhh I think I'm borderline with an existential crisis, it's going to hit me real soon in Philosophy I can feel it.

Help me find meaning, someone? Anyone? :(

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Philosophy.

I'm actually really enjoying this Philosophy course I'm taking.

I had my first class yesterday, and there were a lot of students (about 45), but most of them seemed actually interested by the course, and the teacher is really passionate about what she's teaching.

Of course, in a class that lasts 3 hours a shot with no breaks, my brain hurts when I walk out of the classroom to get to my bike and ride home. But at least I walk out feeling satisfied that those were 3 really productive hours. I haven't felt this productive since Katimavik ended, which is a welcome change.

My homework consists of asking people what they think Philosophy is. Some people really have no clue, and others I ask ask me to define the word "Philosophy", which at this moment in time, I can only really provide a dictionary definition which obviously does it no justice.

I'm finally heading to an employment centre to find a job, as I've been doing nothing since I completed my Greenpeace stint. I'm hoping to find something that I'll enjoy doing. If I could get a job like I had in Vancouver, except with pay, that would be so totally fantastic, but that's a slim chance.

Routine update.

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