Shaneoid

The new year has passed, woosh. I have done two essays and one to go + exam and that is my penultimate set of essays finished. The end is in sight and in retrospect, although I am getting the grades, I don't feel I have applied myself as much as I could have to University. The whole course I applied for has had me disengaged for most of the time, but I am grateful I did it, I do feel a lot better in myself for my achievements.

New year saw me ambitious to have fun, many of my circle of friends seemed not to want to celebrate 2010, but I didn't want to see it go without doing something. Even if that something was a drinky on the local gay scene. I don't remember much about what happened that night, although I did score with a guy I've liked for ages. Good stuff. Not like me to do things like that, hopefully this coming year there will be other things I do that are new to me.

I have been giving some thought after some debate on some random message board site about the word 'gay' and its cultural attatchments, and I have decided following on from that the word 'Good' should now be also banned in common usage.

I propose in place we use the term 'pragmatically benefitial', for words such as 'Good' are not only conceptual relics from our old religious view on the world, but point towards an objective 'Good' which people veer towards, it sets a standard, which is in reality not there (considering cultural relativity, that is). Pragmatically benefitial points to a circumstantial scenario where one finds oneself agreeable to the present conditions. These conditions never occur again so it is pointless epitomising them as some kind of 'Good' scenario to be in, indeed assigning them to a conceptualised form just persists in this perfect world scenario that chaos thinkers attempt to derail. Ok perfection exists but only in conceptual form and i can't be arsed to get in to ontology now... Random thoughts anyway...

Work has been bad over christmas and new year, but is starting to calm again. I have asked for less shifts while I complete my essays however it is too late as they have burdened me with many and my essay deadlines loom. I think that iwll be my last Christmas in the store though, hopefully my last Christmas in Newcastle for the foreseeable future.