As I write this I am just finishing a cigarette. Nothing strange about that,right?
Wrong, considering I didn't smoke up until a week ago. I'm putting it down to the stress of my FYP or thesis. Whichever you prefer to call it.
And I am stressed. Normally I'm a happy-go-lucky kind of guy but these days I'm feeling less of the Happy and alot less of the lucky. My thesis is due in two and a half weeks and I'm halfway through it.
More than enough time some would say, hell, I'm one of them. I know where I want to go with this thing but on the chapter I'm currently workig on I keep hitting writer's blocks. Strange for a blogger.
Somehow I've managed to convince myself that it's solely down to not having the chapter formatted correctly. Unforunately, this is yet to solve my problem. I must have reformatted the thing three or four times now and I keep hitting blocks. So, what could possibly be my resolution?
I have decided to move away from it for a while. I want to work on my introductory chapter and theoretical perspective chapters over the next few days and come back to the troublesome one at a later date. Hopefully then I'll have a new perspective to work from. Well, maybe not a new perspective. That would insinuate that I was going to start from scratch which I sure as hell am not going to do. I've worked too long and too hard on that thing to just throw it away.
Then after that all that needs to be done is my conclusion. Even at this point I feel as though I know what I'm going to do with that. I think I can get to grips with whats wrong with my research to date and more importantly, whats right with it.
Now, Some might say that this blog post is merely a senseless rambling. I assure you it is not. This is me Venting my frustration, my anxiety, my stress.
huh, I guess the cigarettes are working.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Happy New Year!...Well,Kinda...
I haven't posted in a while.
I would like to say that the reason for this has been because nothing interesting has happened to me. But I can't. Alot of interesting things, to me at least, and things of general import, again, to me, have happened. One of these things I really don't want to divulge on my public blog. Strange,I know considering what I've written about in the past.
Heres something I will write about though...
Anyone remember Dónal O'Driscoll? He was the guy that wrote the letter claiming all Christians to be Westboro Baptists. I blogged about it here.
Anyway, It turns out that on January 2nd, as I munched on a turkey Sandwich, I received a message to my Facebook account. Curious, I thought, considering I had been neglecting my Facebook account recently. So I logged on. The message was from None other than Doney-O himself. He had tracked me down on Facebook in order to wag a finger in my direction for challenging my opinion.
So I flamed him.
To be honest,I was thoroughly amused by the whole situation. I mean,you can only watch so much shitty christmas TV before you get bored of the novelty. It was a nice change to have to point out stupidity to the stupid. Repeatedly. Because, y'know, they're stupid.
Dónal responded quite viscerally to my flaming.Which amused me even more.I even got some respect for the "P.R.O",showing passion at something.He exclaimed:
"My letter, from start to finish was CLEARLY about the CU. A blind chimpanzee could see that. So yes, you were talking complete shite."
Oh yeah, I'M Talking shite. Also when I called him on raping my human right to free speech without fear of retribution he claimed:
"I also never questioned your right to freedom of speech. All I did was point out that your reply to my letter attacked me on points I did not make."
Hmmmm. I mean,I questioned him in a public forum so he attacks me in a private message?Doesn;t seem to be cricket.
But yeah, I had gained a little respect for him for allowing himself to feel angry with me. Firstly, it meant I had done all I wanted to and secondly, he wasn't an automaton. Note the past tense.
In the space of an hour he had undone all respect I had for him.He sent another message...apologising! What the Fuck? This is what he had to say:
" I snapped out of frustration with the tone of your response. Suffice to say, your claim that I was referring to all christians, was inaccurate as could be clearlyseen by reading my letter properly. My letter was clearly a tongue in cheek response to the Christian Union's ridiculous scaremongering posters. If I caused any offence I am sorry, but you clearly did not read my letter properly. I will point this out in the next An Focal, but will do so respectfully.I am sorry for getting snappy."
...So I flamed him again, I also goaded him into writing a repsonse to my letter to an Focal. I don't think he'll do it though. Even if he does It'll prbably be typed on a tear-stained keyboard and will consist of "I'm SOOOOO SOOORRRRRRRRRYYYY!!!!!!!".
And then he wrote another response to me. And apologised for offending me. I thought I was the one doing the offending? He then proceeded to give me his life story.For some reason.I'm not entirely sure why.
Anyway, I look forward to making public disgrace of this man. I'll probably call him the enemy of free speech or something.
Its amazing what a little spin and some "off the record" statements can do.
Nothing is ever "off the record".
I would like to say that the reason for this has been because nothing interesting has happened to me. But I can't. Alot of interesting things, to me at least, and things of general import, again, to me, have happened. One of these things I really don't want to divulge on my public blog. Strange,I know considering what I've written about in the past.
Heres something I will write about though...
Anyone remember Dónal O'Driscoll? He was the guy that wrote the letter claiming all Christians to be Westboro Baptists. I blogged about it here.
Anyway, It turns out that on January 2nd, as I munched on a turkey Sandwich, I received a message to my Facebook account. Curious, I thought, considering I had been neglecting my Facebook account recently. So I logged on. The message was from None other than Doney-O himself. He had tracked me down on Facebook in order to wag a finger in my direction for challenging my opinion.
So I flamed him.
To be honest,I was thoroughly amused by the whole situation. I mean,you can only watch so much shitty christmas TV before you get bored of the novelty. It was a nice change to have to point out stupidity to the stupid. Repeatedly. Because, y'know, they're stupid.
Dónal responded quite viscerally to my flaming.Which amused me even more.I even got some respect for the "P.R.O",showing passion at something.He exclaimed:
"My letter, from start to finish was CLEARLY about the CU. A blind chimpanzee could see that. So yes, you were talking complete shite."
Oh yeah, I'M Talking shite. Also when I called him on raping my human right to free speech without fear of retribution he claimed:
"I also never questioned your right to freedom of speech. All I did was point out that your reply to my letter attacked me on points I did not make."
Hmmmm. I mean,I questioned him in a public forum so he attacks me in a private message?Doesn;t seem to be cricket.
But yeah, I had gained a little respect for him for allowing himself to feel angry with me. Firstly, it meant I had done all I wanted to and secondly, he wasn't an automaton. Note the past tense.
In the space of an hour he had undone all respect I had for him.He sent another message...apologising! What the Fuck? This is what he had to say:
" I snapped out of frustration with the tone of your response. Suffice to say, your claim that I was referring to all christians, was inaccurate as could be clearlyseen by reading my letter properly. My letter was clearly a tongue in cheek response to the Christian Union's ridiculous scaremongering posters. If I caused any offence I am sorry, but you clearly did not read my letter properly. I will point this out in the next An Focal, but will do so respectfully.I am sorry for getting snappy."
...So I flamed him again, I also goaded him into writing a repsonse to my letter to an Focal. I don't think he'll do it though. Even if he does It'll prbably be typed on a tear-stained keyboard and will consist of "I'm SOOOOO SOOORRRRRRRRRYYYY!!!!!!!".
And then he wrote another response to me. And apologised for offending me. I thought I was the one doing the offending? He then proceeded to give me his life story.For some reason.I'm not entirely sure why.
Anyway, I look forward to making public disgrace of this man. I'll probably call him the enemy of free speech or something.
Its amazing what a little spin and some "off the record" statements can do.
Nothing is ever "off the record".
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