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#1. Shoop.

I have a supreme excess of school work to do for SOCL301 and SOCL 316. I don't even want to think about if there's anything for HIST 231. School is indeed kicking my ass.

I'll be working on some of my papers with Becky, thankfully, which will help me procrastinate less.

In one of my papers I'll be using Goffman's Dramaturgy to analyze the creation and enforcement of roles in the community of radical anarchists, specifically in relation to how identity politics parses actors into often antagonistic roles, both within groups and between groups. I'm going to talk about some of the more hilarious jargon and silly pejorative phrases that people use, like "Manarchist," Macktivist," or "Subpoena Envy," in describing male ego-driven "dude/bro" radicals, or the use of slogans like "If You're Not Now You Never Were" in enforcing ideology. I'm also going to talk about both the fear of and the prevalence of discrepancy between front stage/back stage actions and ideology (ex, "Q: How many Straight-Edge kids does it take to drink a case of beer? A: One, if no one's looking." and similar jokes for vegans).
It should be a pretty interesting paper to write, but I'm a little concerned about my ability to do a thorough job, given the time constraints.

But mostly I'm just doing a terrible job thanks to all the procrastination I've been doing.

I end up looking up videos of old bands that I love, then scheming ways of emulating them:


"And this ship must sink, and we must sink this ship"


Or just videos of cats:


Or staying up late, watching bad old cartoons: