Did I say I'd be lurking?

[hmpf]

Actually, I'm not. Will be back (lurking or even posting, we'll see) when I have some energy left for that - probably late next week. (It's the problem with procrastination: when you finally *stop* procrastinating you have to put everything you have into the work you should have been doing while you were procrastinating.)

I'm fine, though. I think I even know how to do this bloody paper now. *If* there's enough time left...

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I'd like to thank killabeez for introducing me to Liz Phair via a fanvid. I've recently managed to acquire Exile In Guyville and have been listening to it obsessively for several days now. Brilliant album.

I'd also like to thank aislingde for sort-of-introducing ;-) me to Naked Raven via a sort-of-anti-rec recently. ;-) Another great discovery I would never have made without the internet.

One of these days I have to post a list of bands and artists I like and ask you all to rec me something that may be compatible with my taste. I'm hungry for new music. ('New' as in 'new to me', not necessarily 'current'.)

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Also... I seem to spend far too much time reading political stuff online recently. This is *partly* procrastination... but partly, perhaps even mostly, it's a - somewhat - urgent need to define my own political position. I am more and more coming to the conclusion, however, that before I can seriously think about criticising the-world-as-it-is, I need to understand *economics* better. Because most of what seems to be going wrong seems to be based in the economical system, and while having a queasy feeling about that system is a good enough motivation to start collecting information, and perhaps even to start protesting, it is not the same as having a proper political position. Or at least not one that's promising to be very useful. You can't argue properly if all you have to counter someone else's arguments is 'the current system makes me uncomfortable'...

Comments

[chasarumba.livejournal.com]

From one procrastinator to another, best wishes on finishing the "bloody paper" :)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Also... I seem to spend far too much time reading political stuff online recently.

I spent several years mostly only writing 'non fiction' political and current events posts on my blog. Getting the LJ was sort of a reaction to that, needing to get back to other interests that I'd had before, so I wasn't focused on just one thing to the exclusion of everything else. I needed some balance, I guess :) I had gotten to the point where I felt angry all the time, and that wasn't necessarily a good place to be 100% of the time. I tend to lean towards being a little too serious personality wise, or so I'm told [g] I've always been fairly political, and blogging tapped into that in a way I hadn't expected. When I was a teenager, and other girls were reading Tigerbeat magazine, I was reading Foreign Affairs quarterly. I was such a nerd. Well, still am for that matter :)