The Unobserved Life

The unobserved life, Aristotle said, is not worth living.

So I apologise unreservedly for my pointless, blogless existence for the last month. Ish. I promised some end of year summaries and deep insights and evaluations. Instead, I had Christmas. Oops.

Anyway. This term, I have more time on my hands - I don't have any deadlines, except for two non-contrib essays, so blogging should be easier, init. On the other hand, I have a very busy term lined up (Birthdays, visits, weekends away, covert operations, etc, etc). We shall see. We shall see.

You might be wondering why this is going up at circa 2am. This is because sleep, at University, is actually incredibly selfish because it prevents others from partying. I was not aware of this, and have since repented of such gross injustice on my part. In all seriousness, I have come to realise the wisdom of my Dad before I went to uni: "don't be the party house, that's silly. The point is to go to other peoples' houses - all the party, but with less mess and more sleep". House 11, which is directly opposite my window, haven't learnt this. They were vomiting out of the windows, while bad 80's "ironic" pop was playing far, far too loud. To the point where I went and slept on the landing. Quality.

Sleeplessness aside, this term is shaping up to be ace (who says that anymore?), thanks to an overtly amazingly enthusiastic seminar tutor in one of my modules, and actually interesting stuff in the others. Except one. But oh well! I've learnt the hard lessons of last term - you don't need to read every last thing on the reading list; presentations are easier than you think; worse comes to worse, I'll probably still end up talking the most anyway - and am resolute in actually taking it a little bit easier. No unnecessary stress. Life has a knack of throwing that at you anyway, so don't let academia add anymore. Do as much as you need to do to get what you need, and then stop. Make time for Prison Break marathons. Seek first the kingdom and the rest will follow.

Long, long rests.

In other news, I've joined a gym, started cooking properly properly, and am actually being good with money. It only took a terms worth of lessons hard learned. I think that's pretty good for students.

Anyway, I am sleepy, so I will cut this short. But I will post more things later. I have exciting blog ideas. Maybe attempt a post-modern defence of Jesus (some Roman apologists defended Jesus with some funny mythology involving dragons, I assume defending Jesus from a post-modernist viewpoint will, historically, prove just as silly. But I might just have a go). Maybe Jesus and Wilde. I will also post some belated overdue end-of-year related musings and stats, and try put more pictures up. Words are boring. No-one likes words.

Unless that word is sleep.