Friday, January 06, 2006

Next On Sick Sad World...

Damn, lost focus. today is one of those days when the mind has gone wandering, I woke up at 7am much to my chagrin, so I've plowed through most of season 3 daria. Okay, so this is going to be a diatrite [sic] on sleeping. on how frustratingly I want to stay up into the next day, but there's nothing keeping me awake. So i crawl onto my hard bed with my crappy pillows, turn the fan on cos temperature's not right, the light from across the way is glaring through the cracks in the curtains, and i just want to roll over - not before i have an idea, which has been said before and someone else will say again..

so complaining. doesn't it suck? okay, fun. I'm hooked on soc.history.what-if - contra-history as a useful academic tool. I used it back in high school, the speech i wrote the morning i was to give it, and then came equal first. pissed off those who stuck to the playbook, but i don't play by the rules man. the thing was, what if Zhu De didn't get involved in the long march? would have communism in china failed without what he brought to it? and this idea was so intriguing to the history teachers though that it warranted a top mark.

and so here i can find others who have lost hours wondering 'what if?'

Contra-history rules, serves a practical purpose (do great men or the people drive history?) and it's mine. posted by Keegan at 11:57 am

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