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– YESTERDAY – I’m having a good week at work, although the server keeps going down for repairs. The evening was good and bad; good because another seven or eight people joined the Gothic Funk listhost and also because I had a nice long chat (as in, in a chat room) with Lisa.

I remember essentially nothing. I know that this was around the time I stopped attending the Valley School, and began to be home schooled, but I don’t remember any actual events from this month.

It is very likely I went on some field trips; the Saginaw Zoo was a fun destination, as was Impressions 5 museum in East Lansing.

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Paragraph 3, Sentence 7:

Irony would free the mind from both the scenic and the narrative continuities of romantic art, and the self-reflexive features would allow the full legislative energies of the work of art to serve as direct testimony to spiritual powers irreconcilable with the realm of appearances.

– WHAT IS SOMEWHAT GOTHIC FUNK – Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
– WHAT IS DECISIVELY NOT GOTHIC FUNK – Proof.

– YESTERDAY – Work went really well; I enjoyed myself. I took a break from the Encylopedia of Mathematics to work on html tables and illustration captions for The Cell.

The Detroit Free-Press: UAW boss: The worst is upon us.

The article is less than a page long; you should read it.

My mind is flooded with figures of speech.

• First, I think back to Clinton’s post on our discussion of postmodernism:
  

  The phrasing of “normative projection” is fairly typical language for a structure resembling an ego-ideal (for instance, Lacan describes the ideal self-image of mirroring as “the statue in which man projects himself”).

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Two sentences today, to make up Friday.

– WEEKEND – Mel from Salisbury came over on Friday night and we stayed up for awhile and talked. I hadn’t seen her since summer 2003 when Jess and I rendezvoused (sp?) with her in Toledo of all places.
– On Saturday we went out to eat at the solar powered Habana Cafe on Fulton Street, where I also ran into Michelle from Facts on File, and her family.

– YESTERDAY – I didn’t get a whole lot accomplished. For those of you reading the zombie novel, remember, you have to let me know if you want me to send you chapter two.

– TODAY – I only got four hours of sleep last night, so I’m in an ornery mood.

In theory, I don’t work on Thursday so I can get a bunch of writing done. But I consistantly get so depressed sitting alone in my apartment all day that I can rarely concentrate enough to be useful. Today is a very good example of this.

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Paragraph 3, Sentence 4:

Kant’s scrupulous system would soon be invoked to justify a range of claims that artists could articulate dynamic energies of spirit which cannot be rendered within any mode of representation committed to appearances.