I Like to Move It, Move It ♪

The music in "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" is really sticking to my mind. ♪I like to move it, move it, she likes to move it, move it♪

This is a fun movie, but I thought the original is better. It's kind of dull here and there. You know, you can't expect too much.

I appreciate DS and DS (yes, they share the same initials) to involve me. They are always nice. And her kids, they are cute :)

It's really nice to have someone out of academia to whine. DS is a victim of mine to endure my whining. She's nice, she's thoughtful. I feel much better :) Thanks, DS.

Heavy

My $1 theater buddy, SA, and I went to see Changeling tonight, well, late at night. Mm, it is not a good movie to see late at night. It's too intense. Angelina Jolie is good, though she's too skinny (kind of scary, thinking how she lost that much weight).

I'd better see this stupid movie, instead, especially frantic first couple of weeks of the term.

Make Good Sense!

Man, I like this Bourdieu guy. What he says in this book really makes sense to me. The ideology of neo-liberalism is disseminated by the media, which tend to target poor, less educated people (including women ... I don't agree with this though). Neo-liberalism causes new type of exploitation of labor. Globalization is a disguise of exploitation and capitalism. Urgh, he's cool!

Marx

I think I like Marx even though I don't completely understand what he says in Capital.

I liked today's seminar very much, which was held in plain English, I should say. The professor was out of town, and tutors (brilliant Ph.D. students) substituted today's class. Today's class provided more relaxing atmosphere in which students including novices in Marxism like me were allowed to ask stupid (oh well, basic) questions. I hope this entire course is like this. But no, I don't think it would happen again.

I'm Here!

Don't forget about me. I'm here. I've been crazy because of reading which is easily surpassing my capacity. With that, I don't have time to frequently update this blog. I've been wavering between "Oh, I should drop one of the classes" and "No, you can make it." So far, I've stuck to the latter. So, I've been crazy. Arrrrrgh!

Too Heavy To Sit On

Finally, this morning, I collected a box YO sent me for Oshogatsu. The box contains mochi (rice cakes)! Ohhhhhhh, how should I eat these?! I'm so obsessed with this delight problem of how to consume them. Thanks, YO! This is a great gift at the daunting, depressing beginning of the term.

As a Japanese, I tried to make an Oshogatsu feeling with this rice cake. Actually, I tried to put a grapefruit on the rice cake to make the stereotypical kagami-mochi, but as you may imagine, of course, it didn't work. A grapefruit is too huge to sit on. Nay :(