on laws of attraction and other weird things No, not THAT kind of attraction. I'm talking about the more metaphysical, truly strange kind...the kind where you are thinking constantly of something--an ontological paradigm, an empirical puzzle, a particular way of reconciling oneself with the cruel, cruel world in which said ontological paradigm and/or empirical puzzle has for whatever reason acquired some degree of ascending hegemony, and suddenly there is All. This. Existential. Confirmation....and it's coming into your life from every possible direction. I mean, what the fuck, universe? It works for shitty paradigms and brilliant paradigms equally; it does not discriminate. If this past year has taught me any goddamn tiny thing it has taught me that. But how to shape the paradigm? How, in advanced cases, to even create the paradigm? Such obscure machinations are beyond the comprehension of my tiny pea brain. All I know is hot damn, and holy mother of crap. We really and truly do create our own reality. Asobase kotoba, indeed, bitches.

ANYWAY. Things are, shall we say, afoot. I feel more at home in political science than I have in years. Things are coming together in extremely strange and unpredictable ways. The trade has once again become the calling, after so much stagnation. Confidential to Chicken: mashallah!  ¶ 4:23 PM