poetic imitators

[starfrosting]

I'm really frustrated because I didn't do the reading for class today, which was book X of the Republic, and so I don't feel equipped to critique this whole notion of Platonic forms and imitation. Needless to say I'm just having emotive, intuitive reactions along the lines of "What perfect original forms GAhHHh poetry is not imitative and useless and and and what's with this installation of original transcendent capital-i ideas anyway ahhhh mimesis!" It's frustrating and it's making me think I'm stupid and it's making me think that maybe I'm not cut out for philosophy if I can't make this argument right now.

Now, "logically," I know that's not true. But still.

So obviously today is the best day for my meeting with Murray to discuss Genealogy of Morals...obviously. Ay.

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[taxishoes.livejournal.com]

The reason I hardly ever update about academic stuff is that this is the story of my life:

I didn't do any of my reading. I forgot to turn in this art paper yesterday, so I have to write it NOW but can't find the motivation. I would've done it last night but I felt sick and fell asleep at 8 pm. Today I did a presentation about native american cuisine for which I failed to make any visuals. Instead of working on visuals, I worked on the corresponding paper, which it turns out isn't due until Friday. Oh, and I skipped a class to work on said paper (WHICH WAS NOT DUE TODAY), and then ran into my professor later while I was doing secretarial work for money.

. . . . okay, that's just the story of TODAY, but this isn't such an exceptionally bad academic day for me, just an example of a bad academic day of a type that happens with some frequency.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I feel you. Do you beat yrself up about it? Cos I sure as fuck do. Cos it's like, hm, this is what I want to do with my *life* and yet here I am not being able to do it.