Exam week p2

It's over...finally. Last exam this morning. In retrospect i realize how intresting it is that i started doing this whole blog thing in the middle of exam week. Very telling about my amazing powers of procrastination and avoidence. I don't know how motivated i will be to write these things now that i'm not avoiding studying things i hate. Also now that i'm out of Kin and doing a bunch of classes that i'm intrested in i won't want o avoid it so much. Throw one more thing on top of all that, i go home for christmas tomorrow. So this machine like pace of a blog a day might be affected.

That all said i think it would be a good time to look back on the last week and decide what i have learned from my first exploration into the digital world.

I have really enjoyed doing this. It helps to keep me in perspective to physically see what i was thinking about a week ago. And also writing out ideas gives a kind of coherence to them. I notice contradictions and lose ends in my thoughts when i try to articulate them in a (somewhat) universal medium like this.

It also helps me to get used to basic language again. For the first year of university there i got very caught up in these new ideas and new words. I realize now that they are pedantic arrogant banter and that (for me) one of the most important projects in the future of philosophy will be bringing it down to earth a little.

Now lets not go to far in this...i still think that it belongs in an ivory tower. Not everyone can do philosophy, it takes a lot of hard work and dedication. But on the other hand if we imagine academia to be the CN tower, contemporary philosophy isn't so much IN the tower as...lets say, swinging naked from the antena.

Bring it down that one notch. Put it where the glass floor is so it's around real people. People can see it and be intrested in it. There's no need to plaster it on every sign post, but make it acessable if people know where to look. But yet again i digress...

The point is i have enjoyed this blog writing thing and want to keep going with it. It's nice to just think aloud about what ever pops into my mind. One a day has been fairly easy to maintain, i have many shorter half baked ideas in a day...but this gives me a reason to run with at least one of them. So i'm going to try and keep going at this pace. There will probably be the ocasional slip up over christmas but when i get back to school i'm on this stinking computer several hours everyday anyways so i might as well do something kinda-sorta-psedu-productive.

Another assesment will probably be needed before the summer break but for now i'm fairly happy with how blogging has intergrated itself in to life.

So i guess you'll be hearing from me soon...whoever "you" are.