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[liaku]

I came down sick today, and I feel better now.  I couldn't focus on my work, so instead of screwed around and shopped on forever21.com.  Then I realized I had a problem.  I had 63 items in my cart.  I clearly needed to remove a couple of things.  I enlisted lillueyue's help.

9:12:20 PM me: 63 items.
9:13:06 PM iceheart9950: wait, rewind
9:13:09 PM iceheart9950: did you say 63 items?
9:13:12 PM me: Yes.
9:13:13 PM me: I did.
9:13:14 PM iceheart9950: ......
9:13:17 PM iceheart9950: good god.

9:14:59 PM iceheart9950: THOSE TERRY FASHION SOCKS
9:15:03 PM me: I need them.
9:15:05 PM iceheart9950: true
9:15:07 PM iceheart9950: you need socks
9:15:16 PM me: I wore one pair of socks for a week.
9:15:20 PM me: They were smelly by the end of the week.
9:15:27 PM me: This is not a pattern that can continue.

9:15:31 PM iceheart9950: ....oh my god.
9:15:34 PM iceheart9950: what the hell is that?
9:15:41 PM me: is what?
9:15:46 PM iceheart9950: asymmetrical strap dress is out the window
9:15:58 PM me: ITS CUTE
9:16:01 PM iceheart9950: NO

9:21:04 PM iceheart9950: you don't need two basic racerback tunics!
9:21:08 PM iceheart9950: pick one
9:21:09 PM me: but they're nice
9:21:11 PM me: and cheap
9:21:14 PM me: their basics are good
9:21:15 PM me: pajammies.
9:21:23 PM iceheart9950: 63 ITEMS

9:39:32 PM iceheart9950: pfft
9:39:39 PM iceheart9950: 49 items
9:39:42 PM iceheart9950: progress is happening
9:39:51 PM me: yes
9:39:54 PM me: we now only have SEVEN necklaces.
9:39:56 PM me: PROGRESS!

9:42:28 PM me: ...the lunch bag could be useful.
9:42:32 PM iceheart9950: ....it's a lunch bag
9:42:34 PM iceheart9950: honestly.

9:43:01 PM me: btw, for the wallet
9:43:04 PM me: green or purple?
9:43:07 PM iceheart9950: PURPLE
9:43:11 PM me: ...look at the purple
9:43:11 PM iceheart9950: NO WAIT
9:43:12 PM iceheart9950: IT'S UGLY
9:43:13 PM iceheart9950: GREEN
9:43:16 PM me: ...okay.
9:43:17 PM iceheart9950: ....BUT THAT COLOR'S UGLY TOO
9:43:34 PM iceheart9950: it's like a pasty alien green
9:43:36 PM me: You are not a vintage person.
9:43:39 PM me: Asking Laura

10:28:56 PM me: Okay
10:28:58 PM me: screw Laura
10:29:02 PM me: she's naysaying everything

9:48:44 PM iceheart9950: you have a mirror already
9:48:48 PM me: I lost it.
9:48:49 PM iceheart9950: and your mirror is way cooler than this one
9:48:52 PM iceheart9950: ...what?!
9:48:55 PM me: ...Shut up.

9:49:26 PM iceheart9950: omg.
9:49:29 PM me: ?
9:49:33 PM iceheart9950: you're kidding me with those slippers, right?
9:49:36 PM me: ...well.
9:49:52 PM me: ...they're fuzzy.
9:49:54 PM iceheart9950: no.

10:14:14 PM me: ...It's such a difficult choice.
10:14:18 PM me: the studded jacket is beautiful.
10:14:23 PM iceheart9950: it is.
10:14:29 PM iceheart9950: but you also have quite a few cool jackets
10:14:35 PM iceheart9950: you have no chainmail.

10:29:37 PM me: ...
10:29:40 PM me: I'm removing the lunch bag.
10:29:44 PM iceheart9950: thank you.

10:42:22 PM me: I think I should do 3 necklaces.
10:42:25 PM me: The impossible question
10:42:27 PM me: is WHICH THREE???
10:42:36 PM iceheart9950: ....=(
10:44:44 PM me: We suck.
10:44:50 PM iceheart9950: butbut.
10:44:55 PM iceheart9950: sparklies.
10:45:02 PM me: ikr???

My throat feels like shit, but I'm feeling clearheaded now, and I have enough backloaded work that I can't really afford to let it sit around any longer.  Check it out!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract. Book I, chs. 1-2, 5-9; Book II, chs. 1-4; Book IV, ch. 8.
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, "What is the Third Estate?"
Edmund Burke, "Reflections on the Revolution in France."
Chambers, 542-551, 572-596, 600-622.
Art and Jervis, eds., International Politics, pp. 1-103, 119-26, 153-73.
Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics, pp. 58-76.
Benjamin Fischer, “The Vilification and Vindication of Colonel Kuklinski,” Studies in Intelligence, No. 9, Summer 2000, pp. 19-33.
James Olson, Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying, scenarios 1, 3-5, 19, and 42.
AND I STILL NEED TO WRITE SOME GODDAMN ESSAYS.

I am posting this in hopes that having my to-do list made public will somehow coerce me into actually doing the reading. Or at skimming it, because I don't think I'm dedicated enough to actually read it all.

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[tomboy-typist.livejournal.com]

That... all sounds really really cool. Dude, I wish we had European studies over here. Though I'd have to give up post-colonialism (as I study it it applies to the First Nations e.i. aboriginal peoples in North America), and that would be sad.