the deadline of june 29th is moving closer everyday and, surprise, i'm not as far along as i'd like to be with the paper. behind schedule as always. i have been reading quite a bit though and it seems as though the more i read, the deeper i dig myself into a deep deep dark pit. hopefully i can crawl out of this damn pit before next friday. as one can see from the wonderful picture above, my complete organization of my workspace is quite conducive to a productive working environment. however, for a change of pace i did some writing today in the philosophy library; very quiet and lots of books to boggle the mind. i tried to get into some texts from martin heidegger, a german philosopher, with little success. as i was reading the introduction to his book 'being and time', i came across greek words ...greek! why on earth would someone use greek words in their texts? at first i thought, 'oh, these must be ideas or words which are best described using the greek language' so i looked them up in the fantastic greek dictionary in the back of the book ...nope. some of the words used translated to 'life', 'theory', 'shoe' ...ok, so shoe wasn't one of the words, but it was hardly necessary to use greek words. except when ever you want to prove the size of your philosophical testicles to your readers. otherwise, heidegger has some good thoughts about design and art...
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Everyone knows that Greek is the international standard of the future.
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