The drugs don't make me high, they make me neutral. ~Dr. Gregory House.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Exam in 11 hours...and counting...

I have just started studying for my philosophy exam, tomorrow at 2. And when I say studying I mean, reading the material I haven't read since the midterm.
I've gotten through one case. And I'm onto the next. I've made shortbread cookies and icing and if I was a huge fan I'd eat some, but I'm not. So I've made up little containers of em for friends. Pauline is making her favorite dessert, "Sex in a pan", with a title like that, one must be very careful what they say around the baker. Its 7:15. I'll fill you in on the rest of the evening as my means of procrastination.

7:55 - Pauline wants to order food, it sounds good to me. She wants pizza at pizza delight. I don't want pizza... so I'm going for fettucine alfredo. Its pretty much the same price sooo.. and its a bit healthier. Soo... anyways, gonna go study while I wait for the food.

8:55 - Food still isn't here. I'm a bit ticked. However I finished my last case reading. Which is good. Some interesting to share on the subject of pornography however. The last case I read was about it and charter freedoms and such, and there were these two passages that I found interesting, especially in their complete opposite views.

"Good pornography has value because it validates women's will to pleasure. It celebrates female nature. It validates a range of female sexuality that is wider and truer than that legitimate by the non-pornographic culture. Pornography when it is good celebrates both female pleasure and male rationality." ~ R. West, "The Feminist-Conservative Anti-Pornography Alliance and the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on the Pornography Report" (1987)

"Women, particularly, are depreived of unique human character or indentity and are depicted as sexual playthings, hysterically and instantly responsive to male sexual demands. They worship male genitals and their own value depends upon the quality of their genitals and breasts." ~ Shannon J., in R v. Wagner (1985)

I found it quite interesting, as both sides have really good points. Anyways, food's here!

10:50 - I've eaten, showered, has desert (sex to be exact... in a pan that is... the desert.. with chocolate... oh never mind), I've taken Dave cookies and his own little container of sex.... in a pan. I've wiped out on the ice outside (that's gonna hurt tomorrow) and now I'm going to study. Yes. I am.

12:30 - Yay! I read Mill's "On Liberty"... boring but interesting is something can be that way... now its one to Devlin's essay on the prohibition of homosexual conduct in private between consenting adults. This one proves to be much more interesting. Gonna make hot chocolate too!

2:15 - Okay. Devlin was much more interesting. Though I must question how he expects law enforcment to enforce this whole thing if its private... without infringing on rights to privacy... but I guess that's for another time right? So now its on to Hart's criticism's of Devlin's ideas and then some writing... reading is starting to make me fall asleep, so I think I'll sit down and write up some outlines for the essay questions. I've been nodding off a bit.. so I've set my alarm so just in case I do fall asleep I'm set and won't end up sleeping in too late to study more in the morning.

2:40 - Jon was online and started talking to me. I have yet to return to my studying... but that's ok. I haven't talked to him in awhile and he makes me feel good bout myself... which is rare these days so I'll take it!

4:25 - So I got all the essay questions written (except 1)... never read anymore though. Figured I could do it all by just reading the notes and intros and I could. Thank goodness. Only got distracted twice. The first time was by my legal dictionary.... turns out it had citation stuff in it, and then by Willow who came in looking for attention. I don't usually give it to her at this hour but today I did. She was quite cuddly and it was very nice. Jack is now trying to eat my pudding.
Anyways, I have one last case to read and one last essay by Hart.

6:35 - Okay. I'm done... finally. Gonna try and rest my eyes for a few hours and then I'll get up and head into the university with Pauline, study with Lyndsay, then write the exam. Then study for Irish... soo night!

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