five

the best way to write radio scripts.

four

is there a justifiable reason for why lecturers have us hand in assignments in groups? working in groups creates an absolutely impossible environment. take today for example:

after my driving lesson which finished at 12.30pm, a jumped on a bus (literally) and hobbled through central station trying not to be late for the arranged 1.30pm group meeting. i was then left to sit by my lonesome on the talk-permitted level of the library for FORTY-FIVE MINUTES. i could have spent that time being productive as to a number of other commitments i may or may not have, such as eating my lunch for instance.

it is this kind of pure dysfunctionality and outrageous time wastage which is borne of "group tasks", and why group tasks must be eradicated from the face of our sweet Earth.

ps: guess which country this photo is from. hint: it is not brazil. hint 2: this is my grandad's house.

three

the law makes me feel powerful and important. but at the same time it drains all the humanity out of me.

i have stopped caring about asylum seekers, i have completely forgotten why i ever supported a welfare state, i have started seeing poor people as a burden on the system, and, finally, everywhere i go i notice negligence and gleefully consider the legal construction of the case i would lay against my neighbours when i take them to court.

of course after ten weeks in an arts based degree i've realised that i'm just participating in a discourse, and therefore allowing my identity to be shaped by the knowledges it consists of. but for a while there is really did believe that the law was the closest we'd ever get to the only stable version of the truth, even if it is mad-made.

this is not to say that i am disillusioned by the law. i still want to live out all its glorious cliches especially the morally-bankrupt corporate lawyer who measures self worth by the quantity of her shoes.

but that life isn't the only possible answer, the only valid construction of self. it's just on of billions of equally invalid, equally untrue wretched paths out there.