I have, in the past few months, found myself in the pursuit of yet another degree. I'm not quite sure why I'm getting it, other than it's free and it's something to do to take my mind off of things, so there's that.

In any case, this evening, I was in the unpleasant position of having to write a paper on some long-dead philosopher with ideas that I found rather pandering and pathetic. Mentally, I have little reaction to them other than "bull-fucking-shit" but I believe that if I were to submit this phrase as my assignment, it might reflect negatively upon my grade for the course.

So I have started to elaborate on why the philosopher's incoherent rhapsodies are bull-fucking-shit. It's my belief that anyone with half a brain, who hasn't had the grave misfortune of being raised in an overtly religious environment, could eviscerate his points within a few paragraphs, but I've found myself having to drone on and on, obfuscating points with minor tangents, examples, lengthy diatribes about explanations and definitions which could be accomplished in just a few words, and similar such wastes of time.

The most depressing thing about this sort of nonsense is that the professors eat it up, or else, when they give you a bad grade, you can point out that your logic was infallible and any excessively low grades are unwarranted, the result of personal bias, and ought to be raised by a few points.

I leave this to close out this journal: http://donstuff.files.wordpress.com.....ay-writing.gif