I am guessing that all employees, or employment agencies in general, with internet connections have a sneaky peak at the facebooks of all their prospective employees. out of my friend's friend's 5 photos on their main page, two are of them passed out on different streets and two are close-ups of their face passed out on a bench with a dark orange-coloured liquid coming from their mouth. I do not want to make assumptions, but seeing as this boy is now 18 years of age, he will soon be applying for university, or looking for a job. I don't understand what goes through his mind while uploading these pictures (because I checked, and all of them were uploaded by himself straight to his wall). I just wonder if he has any form of plans for the future. I feel sorry for his parents, and wonder if he has proud older siblings. the first two photos, uploaded last night, might have been during the time when he was drunk, straight from his phone, and he might not have had access to facebook yet, but the ones of him passed out on the street were from six days ago. I have convinced myself that my friend's friend, an eighteen year-old boy, has not been on a 6+ day binge, and is in fact a moron. // this post was about nothing, but it's getting quite late and it's been a while since I posted. I also want to mention that while I am technically twenty years of age, and so the right age to be impressed by my friend's friend's drunken bravado, I feel twenty years older, and the sight of him and the knowledge that my friend is friends with him disgusts me. xx

I risked the torrential rains and flash-freezing fronts of the north today, travelling by train and foot and locomotive, only to be told that I did not have to come in; everything I accomplished today could have been done over the phone. that was definitely worth the five years of my life I've shaved off from the stress of it all. xx

this is an incredibly verbose and seemingly unedited passage by Bertrand Russell. "the problems of philosophy" is a good book, but Russell seems to flip-flop between arguments three times every paragraph, but regardless, I am certainly enjoying the book, from the (very) little I've read. xx // I also just received a philosophy book from a college in america, and this is a passage:

the desire for sex is natural but usually can be overcome; and when it can be, it should be because satisfaction of the sexual drive gives intense pleasure. but it involves one in relationships that are usually ultimately more painful than pleasant, and are often extremely painful.

I had some more german bread with the kirsch on, which is like some kind of cherry jam, I suppose? and I also had a jam jar of orange juice. I do love pretention and hipstery. anyway, today, I did very little. went to the shops in the early afternoon, then entertained my brother for the evening, but other than that, nothing. I got my £500 bursary today, for continuing at the University of Lancashire, and I booked harry potter tickets. I also started playing this adorable little tower defence game called "Pixeljunk Monsters", and it's been taking up a good portion of my concentration for the past couple of hours.// oh! I also did the Pokémon Red glitch / exploit, the one where you can catch a Mew in Cerulian City! it's the first time in my life I've done it, seeing as I haven't played on Pokémon Red since I was about 10. I also found out that burning DVDs takes about three hours, which was a surprise.// oh, this has been a boring blog update. oh, well. I suppose it's supposed to be personal. xx

"does feeling have a physical representation? this video is the story of a feeling represented by a warm vibration spreading all over the body."

"whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it ; therefore nothing can be though of except ideas in minds ; therefore anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist."