Free...as a bird...

There is really something to be said for subtlety. I just don't know with absolute certainty what it is yet - though I think I am starting to get my head around it though.

Here's what I've learned so far - subtlety is NOT:

• persistence to the degree that "yes" is really a sugar-coated "alright already let's do something so you shut up"
  
• visits without goals/activities in mind.
  
• [this bullet point is intentionally left blank] (well, I haven't learned that much yet I suppose...)
  

In other words, subtlety is what I'm not. And by "not," I mean what I used to not be. Effective 1:15 AM (NZ Summer Time), on Monday 29 September, I'm going to try being a subtle creature. This may result in me missing out, but given what ultimately has transgressed between myself and the reason for this change, I don't think (Bad play on words warning) I'll...miss...what I'm missing.

I think that this proves the whole part of how people change when they go overseas - oddly enough, I chose to open up a random entry in the blog - I chose an old entry from I think the first week of classes. some things remained the same - i was still bitching about Art History...


So anyway...

If only I could write papers as quickly as I write blog entries. In that I've gotten to -- 176 words...since I started this just after 1 am (it's now 1:36)...well, I guess it's not that fast. Point is, I have a 2,000 word paper due in just over 24 hours - and I haven't done one iota for it. I guess I've just really stopped caring about this class. See my last blog entry. However, there is hope - I had a paper of an exactly similar length late last week, and I managed to get that done in about four hours (no joke Mark...)

And to finish off, I share the following YouTube video to pay homage to all the negative political ads that everyone is being bombarded with stateside...