Insomnia. Who the hell came up with that? What the hell does it even mean? I can guess that "som" probably mean sleep and "In" meaning can't or the opposite of whatever the word that came after it means, but "nia"? If someone actually knows, please tell me.
Exams...oh yeah. Doozy of a 2 weeks left for revision. None for economic history, well nothing that constitutes as formal revision unless you count writing essay plans that are 1) not in depth enough to actually be useful 2) that are most probably off topic anyway, making even more worthless. Stats and maths I've been doing papers like mad for the past 2 weeks. Getting the hang of the questions but have no idea what everything is and why we do them. I usually find exams to be a time of testing how well you can remember something in the short term rather than the long term, and I think I speak for all my fellow students that the above statement is true (well, to a certain degree of freedom...oh god...I can see the t and chi-squared distributions in front of my eyes! Away! Away! GAH!). Of course it eventually gets buried into our minds, of which we only use about 20%, and retrieved sometime in the next 30 years only to be used as a conversation starter in a speed dating service. Of course I'm not saying that all economics students will end up like that, most, but not all and I am basing this claim on data that my sleep deficient brain just made up. Go brain. Seriously though, most of the stuff we learn in university is worthless in the workplace. Of course there's the maths and English but not everything we learn gets used when we find a job. With probably the sole exception of doctors, most of the stuff we learn now won't be helpful.
So why not just send us straight into work, like in the good ol' days of child slave labour? Well first would be that it'll be unethical for children to work. Too many get stuck in chimneys and the chimney sweep companies can't keep up with the constant compensation claims for new chimneys because the old one is beginning to smell, but two, universities allow us to gain skills that would be helpful in the work place, such as leaving things to the last minute, sleeping at 2am and then going into work at 11, shifts always start 10 minutes later than the time your boss want to start, missing a few days here and there is OK because no one will notice or, my personal favourite, "it's only got two colonies of mould growing on it, nothing a good minute in the grill won't fix." Good luck employers. I've always wondered why the world hasn't already ruined, oh wait let me rephrase that, hasn't been ruined further than it already has thanks to us students? Well if I pass my exams, I suppose I'll find out sooner or later.
Well it's 2:38am now and my brain has just about shut down. And as per the last 2 (or 3, I'm too lazy to check), I'll post up an anime series review. This time: Planetes. That's ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ (if that's come out gibberish on your browser, tough. Get a better browser and character set). Basically meaning "wanderers" in Greek. For what reason the original artist for the manga (comic in english) decided to call a story about space rubbish collectors "wanderers" is beyond me. Anyway, the year is 2075. Space travel has been commercialised and people go into space for holidays and work. But as people go out into space, they create...shit. Well, not shit in the literal sense, though people do create shit, but by shit here I mean rubbish that are floating in space and are floating at about 5km/s. Basically the story revolves around a young man named Hachimaki (or headband in Japanese) who collects rubbish to buy a spaceship of his own and his new coworker, Tanabe who was just transferred into the Debris Section to help him. Basically he and she collect rubbish from space so it's safe for space craft to travel without being hit by a screw or something since it's already happened before a nail hit the side of a shuttle and caused the cabin to decompress killing most of the passengers aboard. Anyhoo, the anime just follows how space has been commercialised and its resources hogged by the rich countries that can go into space while the smaller, weaker and unstable countries that are left behind are invaded by the Union (UN, basically) to bring peace. Of course people aren't happy about that and so there's terrorism in space etc, etc. The story is good for those looking for a glimpse of what the future of space holds for humans in about 60-70 years if the market system prevails and the current political status and ranks (Superpower --> Developed countries --> Developing countries --> Countries that are going through some shit) then we'll probably see the whole thing come true.
Righto. 2:52am...need sleep. If you wanna comment, comment. If you want to complain, complain. But remember that Zoidberg Jesus watches you as you sleep. NEVER LET YOUR GUARD DOWN AROUND HIM! BTW, this hasn't been proof read because I'm lazy. If you want to tell me about poor grammar and spelling, don't. You'll just piss me off and I'll shut your computer down from where I'm sitting. Yep, I can do that. So fear me, MWAHAHAHAHA!
