Final 4: The King of Contradictions

I know that most people wont know it, but this person is made up of entirely logical and/or mathematical symbols other than the crown. If you can spot them all, you win a prize! =D

Uh, not that I expect ANYONE to get it. I mean, really.

Another cartoon on my last final in a bit. Going to do other stuff now, but sleep very much needed. Yeah.

Yes, yes, YES!

This is definitely how I feel about Jesus.

And, no, finals still aren't done. I have another 24 hours before I'm free of this cycle of death and samsara, and I can enter Nirvana, namely, doing nothing for a day or two at least, then a wedding.


Not mine. *big thumbs up*

4th final done.

Cartoons will be up Thursday or Friday, depending on how happy I feel.

Quote of the Early Morn-aka. I need sleep and dealing with finals stress equal to waxing philosophical

Nothing is as hard as it seems and nothing is as good as it gets. Unless you're a man trying to multi-task.

Then you're screwed.

I didn't realize Weird Al had discovered the secret of academia. Listen to it here.

Final 3: Philosophy of God OR Dancing in Club Modernity

Well, three finals are done, and I have two more. This final was fun, but that doesn't mean I did well. I made up a bunch of stuff about these three guys, and then handed in my final. Whether that will end up being a good choice or not it yet to be seen, but I could at least say some stuff about each of the three. This final was over on Wednesday, but I wanted to redo the cartoon because it wasn't sitting very well with me. Not to mention that I like it when I can take some time to relax. Except I'm not relaxing, I'm just too dumb to study.


I have accomplished nothing, and I sure mean NOTHING today. I wanted to understand diagonalization by the end of today, but every time I look at definitions of it, all I see is "blah, blah, blah." I'm lucky that I did a lot of pre-studying with Marianne, Phil, and Franz on this stuff, or I would be in a much less happy place, but I am still struggling to do this by myself because, well, because I'm really, really tired, and it's catching up with me. *Grin* I know that means I shouldn't worry too much, but it sucks because I have the will in my head saying "Study" and then my body and everything else are saying "No, YOU'RE a fruitbasket. Make me."

So, I chalk today up to frittering...fritters...How I miss you. You were one of the many excuses I had for love handles. Now all I have is Belgian bread and milk that isn't fortified with Vitamin D. Sigh. How I miss you, Mini-Wheats cereal. Without you, I am without my daily intake of fibre. Now I eat, musli. MUSLI. Alas, alas.

Well, poetic ode to my North American cravings aside, things here are doin' alright. I hope everyone else is fine, once I'm done finals I will be more fine. I'll update soon, I'm sure, since I can't seem to do any work this weekend, although I having been looking at philosopher's blogs. Naughty.

Blogging

Well, honestly, I haven't been able to update here for a while because a) Blogger isn't uploading my pictures properly b) final exams and c) Blogger isn't uploading my pictures properly.

Needless to say, I am still heavy in it. So, besides reading philosophy blogs about logic, and eating cereal, my day has been uneventful, which is really good, because that means that I can continue to try and understand the Incompleteness Theorem. Hopefully I will be done by 7pm tonight.

Anyways, that's enough of a break. I'll try and post later, which means my next post will either be above this post, below this post, or both. I don't know why Blogger tracks your posts by real-time date as opposed to publish-date, but needless to say, this is a very interesting feature which is currently not useful. I suppose it's useful for those people who write things well in advance, but really, if I had a following, I would pay for my blog, and thus, limit the crashiness. So, no more trying to upload the same post five times. I'll go do work. Bye!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

I wish a Happy Fathetr's Day to all Dads.

But only one of them reads my blog. Props to the Dad-power, yo.

Anyways, I'm going to relax a bit. Then to bed for more studying love in the morning.

It's really hot here, and I sunburnt my nose.

*cries*

Now I wont be able to move my face for three days. I can't believe I didn't think I'd need sunscreen today.

Final 2: Modern Philosophical Texts

This is a typical family moment. My dad is a goofball, my brother was a big goof when he was a kid, and I was that I was last in line for making bunny ears.

If you didn't catch the philosophy joke, it's from Descartes. Anyways, it's less philosophical today because everything about today is totally backwards. I'm not thinking clearly or distinctly because I'm lacking so much sleep. It's been a weird couple of days, and for some reason my spell-checker and grammar-checker quit in the middle of my Descartes essay. I'm not amused. So, needless to say, I'll be working hard at editing my essay VERY CAREFULLY tomorrow morning before I hand it in. I might even do a paper swap with a friend of mine. Well, I can hope, anyways.

Musical Suit

If you want to see the cooolest thing you've ever seen, visit this site. I don't know about you, but I've ALWAYS thought about making something like this. This is terrific.

Essay

I'm done six pages, taking a quick break from essay writing, and I found out that my favourite online word guy has finally released a book. I'm probably going to buy it, and I'll let you know how it is, but he's an amazing writer, and it's sure to be good. I'm becoming more and more of a fan of words and what they mean and meant the older I get.

Tomorrow's Final: Ancient Philosophy

As a special thing for everybody, and so that I don't do silly things and stay up all night before a final, I'll be doing a final-themed picture before each final, hopefully so my brain focuses on other things, and calms down a bit and makes me sleepy. I think I'm ready, so I'm happy.

Logique

I just did logic from 2-5 and from 7:30-10:00, and now I'm not sure if I want to do some more stuff...maybe I'll send out resumes.

Logic isn't exhausting, but I can't decide if what I'm saying makes sense.

Yeah. Good sign. ;)

Update...finally.

OK, well, I meant to put this up many a day ago, but Blogger has been offline pretty much all week, so I haven't been able to.

Anyways, this is my night out during the HUGE June Festival called "Leuven in the Scene." Big amount of cool things happened here.









These are the German acrobats who played a big musical drums show in the evening, this is them practicing doing a general jam session the afternoon before, about 20 metres in the air, suspended by a crane on a mobile-like apparatus.




There were literally thousands of people in Leuven. Apparently everybody heard about the ruckus, and there were so many people here I thought I was gonna die. I'm rarely afraid of small spaces, but man, when you have about fifteen people in your bubble and you can't really see or hear your friends unless they're pressed against you, shouting in your ear, "No, do YOU WANT ICE CREAM! I'M GOING TO GET SOME IN THAT REALLY REALLY BIG LINE OVER THERE BETWEEN THE FIRE EATERS AND THE STROLLER BIKER GANG," makes me kinda queasy and squeamish.








This was the big show of the evening. The drummers were up in the air with some acrobats, who jumped around a large metal mobile that was in the shape of a flower that opened and closed as they played. The drummers and musicians played pieces from the Nutcracker, as well as a few other classical pieces. Pretty fun. I liked it, even though there were so many people we were very, very far away. The light show you see is the conductor being lifted up on a pyro-technic filled platform, and it was the big finale of this show. Very cool overall.








This is Romanian Brass Band that we followed through the streets because they were going our way. I gotta tell ya, they sure know how to play a trumpet in Romania. They're pretty darn wicked. Kinda made you want to get your polka in motion.





This was the second big show of the night, which was a bunch of French acrobats (Europe is full of circus people, let me tell you.) who were suspended on ropes and wires and did a whole modern art and dance show which was really interesting. Well, the first45 minutes, anyways. As my friend Jean said, "It's too long. Our modern dance piece in our play was better because it wasn't so long. I like ours better." I had to agree. The first and only lesson of modern dance is that one can only take so much of it before people can't stand not knowing what's going on. I mean, not like you were ever supposed to know. It's modern, after all. =D Lesson should be learned, that no matter whether you smear yourself in paint, or strip yourselves half-naked for a bit of perky sex appeal around midnight, doing random arm-circles in the air for twenty minutes to half-baked techno music is still doing random arm-circles, even if you put jazzy, snazzy clothes on it. And the clothes weren't so jazzy as they were frilly whilst still being minimalist and french. Therefore, failing grade in terms of entertainment value, but artistic value was definitely at a peak. I'll probably never see something like that ever again. Now, I don't know if I'm lucky or I should regret such a thing, but there it is. Modern theatre, can't live with it, can't understand it.






This was the last place we stopped for the night. All the trees were lit up in the city park. It was mega cool, with faces projected onto trees, with modern acting troupes hanging out here, and peolpe walking everywhere late at night in the city park. It was magical, that's all I can say about it. Walking around with your friends, getting to be a kid again for a bit (Because believe me, in Europe, they frown upon anything that resembles childhood or fun except at the appropriate times. You should be getting drunk, not having a good time on swings and stuff. The swings may be free, but the beer is nearly free, and that's the moral of the mindframe here.) is really refreshing, especially for me, since I don't get to hang out with anyone younger than 19 here, which is sad for me. But, I'm still having a good time, and the city park was beautiful. It's all I can say. It was terrific. Tres bein.

Well, that's all I have for now. Blogger is being uppity again, so I'll post more when I can, but really, it's been a pretty fun last couple of weeks. These coming weeks are going to be terrible, but I'll deal. I'll update some more in a bit. =D

Posting

Hey, I'll post something soon, but I ran out of time tonight, and I don't have the energy to do it right now. Finals. Sigh. Anyways, I'll be doing some cool things, maybe a comic, and some pictures later. Gimmie a bit. Tomorrow's a busy day.

Papier

One little two page paper done, one 15 pager to go before Wednesday next week.

I'm being really lazy. I know this is a study period, and I'm being hit with a big wave of not wanting to do anything. This is terrible. I hate it when this happens because sometimes you just get the lazy chi and you have to ride out the storm.

However, today was minorly productive, and so was yesterday, so I suppose I could be mad at myself a lot more. It's not like I'm shirking work, I'm just shriking more than two to three hours of it per day. Dang it anyways.