celebrating the fact that I ain't 30

I am sooo ridiculously hungover right now, it's not even funny. I'm going back to bed shortly. But first, I just want to tell everyone that I have now been to a strip club.

( hilites )

i think i have a couple of them on my FL

In college I dated a guy who was majoring in biology and philosophy. I'm kind of anti-philosophy because of him - not because we didn't get along, but because it all just seemed like so much mental masturbation to me. But then I was majoring in computer science. I sort of wish I had taken a couple of intro courses now, or maybe at least read a book like "philosophy for dummies" so I'd know who said what and all that. Of course I sort of know all that anyway, just because, hey, I'm literate and shit. You read a little, you find that out. And the internet is an indispensible font of knowledge.

Last year I bought a copy of Being and Nothingness, but I didn't even get past the introduction. Well, that wasn't written by Sartre, either. Perhaps at one point I'll pick it up again, but really I prefer reading stuff that has actual real-world applications. Which doesn't explain how I got all the way through The Fountainhead... but like all other philosophical schools, Objectivism has some good stuff and some bad stuff. Personally I'm more interested in the historical significance (since that's real-world application) of ideas, rather than the ideas themselves. (My favoritest course ever was a "history of science" class.)

Although that only goes for humanistic fields; when I was taking calculus, for example, I wasn't crazy about applying formula to explain actual phenomena. And then there was my preference for pure logic proofs versus geometric proofs. Same principles for both, but the latter were applied and the former were abstractions. I totally got off on them both, but I definitely preferred the former. But my preferences are obsolete in this day and age, someone who enjoys applying her mind to repetitive tasks. I don't like doing stuff over and over, I just like running my thought processes over and over, only slightly differing each time. (I'm also the one who figures out tips at restaurants.) Which is I suppose why I'm never going to be mistaken for a success in the field of computer science. I'm just not good at seeing the real-world applications in the left-brain shit.