just watching words form on a screen.
words.
words like, oh...
fragments
calculus
portals
exterminate
polynomial
function
personification
there are some words for you. right...there.
and there.
and now there too.
i drank more last night than i have in awhile. it was nice to get out and let loose of some inhibitions though. i rarely let myself get too wild and crazy, so it is nice to have that escape every so often.
i keep looking at this sign that says, "microforms"...and all i keep thinking about is how awesome it would be to go in there and start collecting various ones on file.
for example, imagine finding microforms of various subjects of the past that you never got to live through. OR! maybe things that you were too young to remember. mine would be mostly made up of the eruption of mount st. hellens, or perhaps some coverage on the election of president carter. i got no real reasoning behind that one except that i bet there were some fun political cartoons during that era that i've yet to see.
this microforms machine is telling you that you're not alone anymore.
oooh. sexy.
anyways, so this is the big news of the day for me.
it looks like bjork has pissed off china. oops!
sorry i said the name of a country aloud!
a country that you happened to invade back in 1951 (tibet) and claim as your own personal historical territory happens to be a sore issue for you? really? it'd be one thing if she said something like, "i feel that what is happening to the tibetan people is unjust and immoral," but all that she said was "TIBET!"
so...what you are saying now is that we cannot say the name of a country that you own within your country.
really.
so, does this mean that i can't say "puerto rico" aloud? considering we are attempting to make it a state? considering it is considered a US unincorporated organized territory? while i know this comparison is far different than what tibet is to china, i still find the idea to be somewhat similar. i understand the idea of getting upset by someone speaking their mind about a sore issue within the country that has ownership of tibet (except for small portions that are lead by india), but to take it to the extreme where if the name of a country is said aloud that you are actually in some sort of legal trouble, then how is that supposed to work? how are we to ever learn from our mistakes or know anything about the world around us? i understand that the issue is extreme enough that it is illegal to fly a tibetan flag in the people's republic of china, and from that alone it doesn't seem unlikely that this was seen as something so shocking and upsetting. the thing i don't get, (and i guess it is an american mindset, so it possibly will seem outrageous) is that they havn't learned to move on. they have want they wanted. what else could they ask for? why is it so wrong to speak the name of something you claim to have? why is it so wrong to introduce an idea into someone's subconsious? i've mentioned previously though...i definitely have the american mindset of free speech and democracy, so this might seem sided based on those sorts of standards. the whole thing really fascinates me.
off the subject again...
i keep staring at the circulation desk and thinking how much i would love that sort of job. it seems so relaxing and relatively stress free. this guy has been reading a book for the last 40 minutes and sitting at his computer. he seems to give off no levels of stress to the position. it looks sort of cluttery, like some sort of giant library experiment. that is one of my favorite and weirdest passions is filing things. organizing files. finding books. recommending other books. shit...you know, sometimes i wonder if i should go back to school and go for a literary science major. while part of me would most likely hate the politics of some of the people that are in that kind of field, i know that i could highly enjoy digesting many different subjects of text within a day. i'd feel as though i were educating myself on a regular basis, and that is a definite highlight for me to imagine. i always attempt to learn as much as i can on a regular basis, but sometimes i feel as though it is the same regurgitated material. either way, this is the end of this train of thought. have a good day!
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