coffee

coffee cup

one day i’ll have a machine that will allow me to make tasty coffee drinks like that.

//back to studying philosophy… in which i will get *80%* if i pull of a 75% on the exam!

update @ 12:01am
that’s it! i can’t do it anymore. the names are starting to mix up in my head. i guess i’ve been studying (with some breaks here and there but mostly studying) since 2pm. wow!
who i have read (book), revised (class notes), reedited (together with overheads) and thus reviewed:
Nagel, Goldman (I, VIII), Kant, Stein (II, V),
who i have done at most 2/3 of the above (and thus not totally reviewed yet):
Singer – done the second half of Kant’s critique, but totally didn’t get first half. e-mailed prof.
Mendus – reviewed but don’t feel confident – keep forgetting what she wrote about (all jokes aside, marriage faithfulness. but she’s arguing AGAINST it)
Hajdin (2) – nothing done except rereading class notes. no lecture notes, so i have to reread the whole thing
Rapaport (I, III, IV) – done all 3 but its all a huge mess in my head and on the paper so still have to totally do

that’s for the short answer part.

for the essay part i have 4 people:
Elliston – “Gay Marriage” (4-5)
Jordan (both arguments) – “Is it Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?”
Nussbaum (everything except section II) – “Objectification,” Specific examples from D.H. Lawrence and Playboy, seven ways of treating as an object, discussions of D.H. Lawrence and Playboy.
Primoratz (4-5) – “What’s Wrong with Prostitution?” – first and second feminist critiques

i’ve got a superficial overview of all of them, but for the essay part i need to be cracking these guys off in depth. i’ll probably sketch something out for nussbaum, as her paper is HUGE, one merged gay marriage argument(almost wrote gay prostitution – now THATS a philosophy paper topic), and definitely primoratz as he could appear in both short answer AND essay part.

anyway. time for a break..nnnnow.

update @ 12:22
fun links:
cute illustration of the website development proccess

an interesting japanese magician

pixel fonts

Time goes by so slowly

wow, madonna’s latest song somehow makes me feel good.
hung up

things that make me happy today:

  1. my loving, awesome boyfriend
  2. my loving, awesome boyfriend that withstands me talking on the phone to random people in russian a gazillion times at 10am after falling aslepe at 5am
  3. my loving, awesome boyfriend that let me steal his awesome red bag that makes me so happy
  4. my white jacket that is keeping me warm and cozy
  5. my headphones that still work despite tearing apart to the wire in 2 places (2!)
  6. hot dogs
  7. chai latte
  8. u of t laidlaw walk
  9. bahen ceilings
  10. studying in u of t
  11. last day of classes!
  12. having awesome profs (like the one who taught philosophy and was talking to me and a classmate for 20 minutes after the end of last tutorial and class!)
  13. people who i used to know who i randomly meet in subway who invite out to a beer
  14. my cousins who are cutest bunch ever
  15. my friends who bug me lovingly when i disappear off the face of the earth
  16. my parents
  17. (what else do i need to say, they’re my parents)
  18. my laptop, which is my trusty friend through thick and thin
  19. listening to christmas music through above headphones and feeling overjoyed at it being crispy outside
  20. dooce.com’s rants from 3 years ago
  21. every little thing that you say or do
  22. looking forward to all the awesome things that will hit me as exams will start ending
  23. the fact i’m not at all scared of exams
  24. the fact that one of my previous jobs asked me to come back for a project
  25. getting gifts for those whom i love that i’ll give for xmas
  26. the beauty in this world
  27. hart house coffee
  28. my dog’s brown eyes
  29. music
  30. watching csi downloaded on my desktop while i was out of the home through the wireless network at my house. how cool does technology GET! home networks never worked well for me, but this time, thanks to tim’s efforts, its all working.
  31. everything is working.
  32. my loving, awesome boyfriend.
  33. life.

this is entirely about STUFF

i love that couch and shelves and everything.
amazing design

totally hot dish design:
cups

all these clocks are from bed bath and beyond (ohmygosh so cool)
melting clock
THIS IS LIKE CANDY (i could so hang 1.. or 3 on our kitchen wall)
CANDY CLOCKS. *drool*
and this would go into the bathroom:
retro clocks

and one of these (or all 3) in the entrance way so that guests know they’re entering a screwed up place:
stretched clock hanging man clock another stretched clock

PS

and what did i eat today?

Kraft Dinner.

the one and only : kraft dinner

i love you tim, who eats it with me at 2am.

and i love you, kraft dinner, who makes me feel so happy with cheesy goodness.

reading titles of papers

this is one of those “if i never had to work what would i do (beside photography and travel)” things.

BBC posted an article on Romantic love ‘lasts just a year’ citing a research article. i love these kinds of news as they lead to a fantastic amount of facianting research.

so, again, upon reading such an article i jet to e-resources of u of t and try to find the original. unfortunately news articles cite their sources very liberally (i.e. mention the author and journal, but not paper title or anything like that), thus it involves some looking up.

the moment i open any given journal on scholar’s portal (biggest collection of online research journals and articles at u of t), i start to drool and wish i could read alll of them. i still haven’t found the original of the BBC article, but here is a skimming from today’s “casual research”; the articles i’d love to read just to gain the knowledge:

  • The role of the amygdala in human fear: Automatic detection of threat
  • Stress hormones in health and illness: The roles of work and gender
  • Coping with critical life events and lack of control—the exertion of control
  • The effect of a low dose of alcohol on allopregnanolone serum concentrations across the menstrual cycle in women with severe premenstrual syndrome and controls
  • Weight loss strategies, stress, and cognitive function: Supervised versus unsupervised dieting
  • Prenatal stress and children’s cortisol reaction to the first day of school

    • these are from Psychoneuroendocrinology journal.

    i couldn’t find the article there (grr, and google scholar ain’t helping either), so i looked up “romantic love” in the u of t scholar’s portal. results (ohmygosh! hesi i think you’ll like this) – there is a journal called Psychology and Marketing .

    articles from that:

  • Romantic love and sex: Their relationship and impacts on ad attitudes
  • Direct evidence of ending-digit drop-off in price information processing
  • On-line product presentation: Effects on mood, perceived risk, and purchase intention
  • The dark side of discounts: An inaction inertia perspective on the post-promotion dip
  • A cognitive and behavioral hierarchical decision-making model of college students’ alcohol consumption
  • Memory for advertising and information content: Comparing the printed page to the computer screen
  • The interaction of retail density and music tempo: Effects on shopper responses
  • A cross-cultural exploration of attitudes toward product expiration dates

    • the The Journal of Comparative Neurology Volume: 493, Issue: 1, 5 December 2005, pp. 58 – 62 has an article titled Romantic love: An fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice

    i want to read them all, collect them all. and this is just from a 15-20 minute casual browsal/search of just one of the many (at least 10 major, 50 minor) online collections of journals, all searchable.

    and each article has references, which lead to more facianting stuff, and and and this is just the latest research (all of these are at most 6 months old – nearly nothing, given how my friend published a linguistics article on a book written in 1973!)

    i wish i could be one of those people who writes news articles based on these journals. that’d be FREAKIN’ SWEET!

    P.S. Tickets to Australia bought. Tickets to New Zealand bought (open-jaw – flying into Auckland and leaving from Christchurch). Residence secured (the mixed orange roof thing around a big tree). All that’s left is visa (easy), and figuring out the pleasantries of what to do in NZ, and what and how to pack. i foresee a lot of pleasant shopping for bags for me.

    update: boingboing to the rescue! they posted a link to the original paper i was looking for