blue and brown books

It’s 9.18.08 and I still can’t seem to get to the gym yet.

This morning I at least made breakfast for myself. Jeannine came home last night, she had news that she’d be moved to northern-ontario’s riding to work on the federal election temporarily. It’s not very good news, because we’ll apart for the entire month unless I come out to visit her. It’s about a 2.5 hour drive.

I’m not looking forward to it, but I have other things I need to be doing as well. I guess it’s because I hardly had any commitments to anything in Japan outside of working for about 3 hours a day, but I just can’t bring myself to be proactive about anything. I need to get on top of my reading, I need to get to the gym, I need to get a job, but after I finish my classes for the day (usually one 50-min class) I’m exhausted. I’m such a baby.

I think what I need to do is jsut get a job and get some structure. My brother works for a team that frames garages and he’s offered me work for two days out of the week. I think I might take it up, at least it’ll give me some much needed structure in my god forsaken life.

This morning Jeannine and I got up late and she drove me to school. The people who she was to meet at the legislature weren’t around, and when I got to school I had found out my books were in my other bag. We called one another and then Jeannine came back and picked me up. We went back home to get my books and then we went for a bite to eat and ran some errands. She got a call from one of the leg people, so we went to the provincial office for her meeting, then she drove me to school.

I read for a good 3 hours and finished my article. I’m reading Taylor’s “What is Human Agency?” and it’s a tad insane. Taylor is an accomplished philosopher of mind outside of all of his other work in moral and social-political work. Phil-grads only dream of having as much good work in one area as he has had in multiple ones.

I saw Bonnie, and it was really great to see her. Bonnie is one of the coolest people I know because she thinks a lot and doesn’t take herself so seriously. She’s also hilarious and has a really great outlook on things. We chatted for about half an hour and she had to get to class.

I’m now upstairs in the computer lab trying to hammer out some comments on the Taylor paper. I think it’ll take me most of the evening.