blue and brown books

It is 9.9.08 and it is cool.

Got up around 9am, I shouldn’t have slept so long. I took the dogs out and checked email and did the normal morning things I do. I’m still not setting a routine, and it’s really bothering me. It will start tomorrow I reckon. 7am wake, walk dogs, make breakfast, shower and be ready for the day. I think in Japan I was just so used to catching up with the news of the day back home. Given the time difference, most emails and facebook things would happen while I was sleeping. Here, it’s more in the evening that content comes out.

Emailed some profs about my thesis and decided I needed to go to school to talk and work out some issues. I didn’t end up leaving until about noon. Spoke for a while with Savickey, and I’m feeling a lot more like I’ve been settling in to a topic. Narrowing it down, it’s going to be on Charles Taylor and the idea that all of our social actions are representative of our moral person. An epistemological outlook that carries over and informs a prescriptive account of the way we ought to live. I don’t really know what this is called still… Holism? Virtue Ethics? Let’s just say it’s going to be both difficult and interesting, but at the very least, contemporary. I have to now decide on an advising prof. I’m thinking Forsey or Keenan, but Keenan is very skeptical of me I think, and it’s hard to feel reinforced by him. Amazing prof, but perhaps Forsey has more knowledge on the subject? I think I need to have another talk with Keenan.

I ate lunch and hung around at the library looking at a few books and journals. It’s been really difficult still not being properly registered because I can’t take books home or use any of the computers at school except for the express library 5-min terminals. I killed a few hours in the library and then decided to wander home.

In the basement, I played drums for two hours. By “played” I mean, played basic rock over and over again trying to change it just slightly. Drums are hard, but I think they’ll be enjoyable. I read an article for tomorrow’s honours class and then took the dogs for a walk to get groceries. I brought a bunch of shit back and made the most fucked-up omlette ever. Lot’s o’ cabbage. Watched some podcasts and then took the aircon out of the window in the bedroom.

I’m tired and had a really full day, or at least it felt like a full day. Karim has emailed me back and I’m going to read it, and then crawl in to bed and watch some TV. kthxbye.

here’s the article I was reading:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm