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Oh, one thing I got polished up for public consumption! Actually, this was an assignment -- we had a few options to demonstrate our understanding of materials alongside the formal exam, and obviously I took the creative writing route. That being said, I only had 1250 words max to demonstrate a minimum of 30 technical elements, and you would be surprised how quickly that wordcount sneaks up on you! So pacing was a necessary casualty. Also, this one is NOT properly representative of absolutely any known legal system lmao, I took the general idea of "NiF, but it's also modern' that a buddy made strides in elsewhere and ran off with it, careening off the walls on my way! But I love love love the ministers and their cultivation-work <3 so here they are fighting the good fight for clarity in some ambiguous post-canon contemporary-ish setting

Ministers Shen Zhui and Cai Quan for the Defense
Word count: 1239
Caveat lector for: clinical description of offscreen character death by stroke, with complications.

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extra: works originally cited, for funsies:

"Most common site of bleeding in the brain at 50% of hemorrhagic strokes" Chen S, Zeng L, Hu Z. Progressing haemorrhagic stroke: categories, causes, mechanisms and managements. J Neurol. 2014 Nov;261(11):2061-78
Schwab S, Aschoff A, Spranger M, Albert F, Hacke W. The value of intracranial pressure monitoring in acute hemispheric stroke. Neurology. 1996 Aug;47(2):393-8. doi: 10.1212/wnl.47.2.393. PMID: 8757010.
Unnithan AKA, M Das J, Mehta P. Hemorrhagic Stroke. [Updated 2022 Sep 30]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559173/
Peck-Radosavljevic M. Thrombocytopenia in liver disease. Can J Gastroenterol. 2000 Nov; 14 Suppl D:60D-66D. doi: 10.1155/2000/617428. PMID: 11110614

(and actually I do have context, I just didn't have space to fit it in: considering that the new emperor's advisor of mysterious provenance has died abruptly, under the primary care of 1) a doctor who is not a citizen but does represent a well-regarded neighboring entity, and 2) a physician who happens to be the emperor's own mother, it would actually behoove Jingyan to be able to independently state that there was nothing untoward going on. This is a formality, but it's not unreasonable for SZ and CQ to have some anxieties about how their report will be received, considering the previous administrations) (also, yes the other doctor's names are eastereggs for Jin Dong's other projects :D)

Current Music: Baby Storme - this city is a graveyard

3312 words, 22 footnotes, 18 citations, and 13 pages later, I have finished the World's Most Depressing Paper!

Becasen, Jeffrey S., et al. “Estimating the Prevalence of HIV and Sexual Behaviors Among the US Transgender Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2006–2017.” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 109, no. 1, American Public Health Association, Jan. 2019, pp. e1–e8. Crossref, doi:10.2105/ajph.2018.304727.
Clark, M. (1988) Pastoral Instruction on the AIDS Crisis. New York, Diocese of Rochester, February 29.
Feldman, Jamie, et al. “HIV Risk Behaviors in the U.S. Transgender Population: Prevalence and Predictors in a Large Internet Sample.” Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 61, no. 11, Informa UK Limited, Sept. 2014, pp. 1558–1588. Crossref, doi:10.1080/00918369.2014.944048.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HIV Surveillance Report, 2016; vol. 28. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/hiv-surveillance.html. Published November 2017. Accessed 1 May 2020.
Hunt, Jerome. “Why the Gay and Transgender Population Experiences Higher Rates of Substance Use.” The Center for American Progress. 9 March 2012. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/lgbtq-rights/reports/2012/03/09/11228/why-the-gay-and-transgender-population-experiences-higher-rates-of-substance-use/
Lee, Yi-Hui, et al. “Recruiting Chinese American Adolescents to HIV/AIDS-Related Research: A Lesson Learned from a Cross-Sectional Study.” Applied Nursing Research, vol. 25, no. 1, Elsevier BV, Feb. 2012, pp. 40–46. Crossref, doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2010.02.001.
“In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace.” Pew Research Center, Washington, DC. (17 October 2019). https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/
Cater, Lauren. “Vatican says 'no' to transsexual godparents amid Spain controversy”. Catholicnewsagency.com. Catholic News Agency. 2 September 2015. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-says-no-to-transsexual-godparents-amid-spain-controversy-54280
Koh, Howard. “Ten Reasons to Address HIV/AIDS in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities.” obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. The White House. 19 May 2014. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/19/ten-reasons-address-hivaids-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-communities
Larsen, Nella. Passing. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. Print.
James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M. (2016). The report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Retrieved from the National Center for Transgender Equality: https://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/doc s/USTS-Full-Report-FINAL.PDF
Ray, Stuart C., and Thomas C. Quinn. “Sex and the Genetic Diversity of HIV-1.” Nature Medicine, vol. 6, no. 1, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Jan. 2000, pp. 23–25. Crossref, doi:10.1038/71487.
“The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States.” National Academies Press, 1993. Crossref, doi:10.17226/1881.
Toomey, Russell B., et al. “Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior.” Pediatrics, vol. 142, no. 4, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Sept. 2018, p. e20174218. Crossref, doi:10.1542/peds.2017-4218.
Sharma, Akshay, et al. “Variations in Testing for HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Across Gender Identity Among Transgender Youth.” Transgender Health, vol. 4, no. 1, Mary Ann Liebert Inc, May 2019, pp. 46–57. Crossref, doi:10.1089/trgh.2018.0047.
“HIV Among Asians in the United States.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 9 May 2017. Accessed 2 May 2020. Accessed from https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/racialethnic/asians/
Thompson, Beth, et al. Healthy Bodies, Safer Sex. Tallahassee: Florida State University, 2016. https://www.plu.edu/gender-equity/wp-content/uploads/sites/219/2014/11/safersexbooklet_national.pdf
“Multiracial in America: Chapter 4: The Multiracial Experience.” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (11 June 2015) https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/06/11/chapter-4-the-multiracial-experience/
- yanked off of my bib doc because I'm not opening the final thing again, I've stared at it too much today

I may be an inveterate humanities student, but I will write the fuck out of a bio research paper too.

Also, we got back to the panta rhei campaign! we spent about six months between meetups :_D with our dragonborn locked in hold person and our warlock an iota away from having to fight one of our npc teammates over an artifact from her patron. But they talked it out today and she can complete her debt! Ethereal plane and an undead naga later, we made it out of the dungeon we spent the last like five sessions in. Telim has had his parochial bubble quite shattered and was just thinking he should make this team-up official, when it turns out that a) they've been gone for a whole week, not the three-ish days they percieved, and b) his republic has declared war in the meantime. He's an Auxiliary who levelled up twice in that dungeon - if the Republic is at war, there's good odds that he's supposed to have already reported in. He's questioned the Republic before, but that was idle talk next to this. As soon as they reach an outpost, he won't have any more reasonable excuses not to be AWOL. There was a hot sec on the wrong side of the ethereal plane where it seemed like he might not make it home at all, and that was a low moment. He does love his city-state! But also he's just really found out that there are bigger issues out there than the politics he had known.

I know it's going to be much more fun to play together if he doesn't report back to the army that barely wanted him in any case, but he has spent a long time with the kool-aid. It would be so easy to slip back into the class he was raised in (that would chew him up and spit him out) (and always know he was a coward for not trying harder to make a difference), rather than desert and see the world as it really is (and hang up his identity as Good Auxiliary of the Republic). I think if he learns some of the things that his teammates haven't been able to tell him yet, he'll have the motivation to stay with them.

Everyone already knows but him, though. I need to step up my rp game and be more inquisitive. He's got more potential than I've been using -I've got work cut out for next session!

Current Music: it's a long long way to Tipperary, but my heart's right - where?

Life continues to come at me before I can catch everything (work is getting better! but I am a fool who forgot the golden rule not to get involved with straight guys, so lmao @me), but oh man am I enjoying my course on AIDS as the modern epidemic. I know, that sounds strange to say; infectious diseases really aren't a done interest. Much less STIs, and much less gay-related STIs, with the compounding stigmas. But I do enjoy medical history on my own, and I had the background in biology for a while, and now it's coming together with the social history and seeing how all the factors fit together to make AIDS what it was and is, is so fascinating and exciting to understand better and better.

And like, today I stayed back to ask the professor a thing about HIV and the Spanish Flu and cytokines, and we ended up walk/talking about gram-negative bacteria and toxin production, and I have so missed that. I just have been building this information pool on my own, informally, for so long, and now to get to actually apply it all and rather stretch the bio-related mental muscles is such a good time. I've been meaning to take this class for a while, and it really throws sharp light on how burying myself in the philosophy department with course overload for so long was burning me out. Like, yes, it's been for a good cause because I'm dual-tracking and accelerating my MA and I love philosophy too and I'm glad to have that opportunity, but still. I really was drowning in humanities, and despite it all, I am still the son of a laboratory technician. And I've been neglecting that interest for too long.

The thing about taking it this season, though, is that we’re in an infectious and stigmatized disease course while the coronavirus is happening. And it’s racialized, this time, instead of homophobic, but the patterns are still very present. Cal pulled a class act earlier this month, by posting a ‘common reactions to illness’ flyer including xenophobia, and couldn’t that have been said better. (they did take it down.) And now there’s hysterics because an american soldier got it in south korea, and listen, I am sorry that he’s sick, I am! But there is nothing on the face of this planet that makes americans (american military members) so special that it should make a difference if it were GI Joe or anyone else at all. Ugh. There’s just so much wrapped up in that I don’t know where to start.

Actually, as it so happens, at the beginning of the 1900s there was also a disease outbreak blamed on chinese people - the first cases of plague on the continental united states. Because when you’ve got a population confined to slums and denied appropriate care, why not go ahead and blame them for illnesses that hit them correspondingly harder?? But actually, one of my favorite comments about the entire discipline of biology comes from a book about that epidemic: science without compassion is a dry and punitive discipline [^1]. And isn’t that just everything.

Man. What with it all, I can only shrug at SF declaring a state of emergency. Like, tbh I think it’s a good idea, because that opens the door to better inter-agency cooperation, but I got back from work and walked in to people with so much panic about it all, and I have not got the bandwidth to effectively calm everyone down. Frankly, what with starting with the Iran snafu, this whole year to date I’ve been walking around wrapped in Kaminsky’s poem - we lived quietly during the war, I hear it whispering at me. I’m too tired to be concerned, just in general. Maybe Lenten mindfulness’ll help.

[^1] the full context of the quote is also timely again:
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Current Mood: is this being ravenclaw??

lmao I’m so upset by the tribunal here on Battlestar Galactica not because they’re accusing my dad of being a Cylon collaborator but because the officer leading the examination is asking SO MANY leading questions and I wish someone would start objecting (come on and lawyer it up, Lee!)
( (actually to be frank... )

Anyway, Battlestar Galactica! I got hooked back on it when I was doing my papers on like, AI and hermeneutics and mixed reality and socially-permitted personhood (>30 pages across my classes!) and it’s perfect, right? Well, it is a Trip lmao

Things That Were Evident To Me Watching Battlestar Galactica In the 2000s And Still Relevant 15ish Years Later:

( Hera: )

Things That Were Not Evident To Me Then, But Aren’t Surprising Now:

( Politics! )

What the Fuck:

( wildcard! )

So that's what I'm watching to unwind from finals! Obviously, I've chilled out, because here's works cited for my own entertainment! Quotes from:

Rennes, Magali. "Kiss Me, Now Die!" Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, ed Josef Steif and Tristan Tamplin. Open Court, 2008. Pp. 63-76.
McHenry, Bryan. “Weapons of Mass Salvation” Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, ed Josef Steif and Tristan Tamplin. Open Court, 2008 Pp 221-231
- Emphases retained. Print, and recommended for BSG through the lens of philosophy/politics, albeit not so much philosophy through the lens of BSG. In the same volume, also recommending the Wretched of New Caprica, by Dan Dinello, for the New Caprica / occupation / Guantanamo / show trials discussion, and The Razor’s Edge, by Sara Livingston, not because I personally endorse Lakoff’s family models but because it’s very good character meta. Also, there’s one article, Dreamers in the Night, that takes the form of a fic, and is Hilarious to find in an anthology like this!
Hyperlink to Buzzfeed Video. "The Try Guys Take An Ancestry DNA Test" Youtube. Zachary Kornfeld gesturing at a map and exclaming that he hopes his "babies are, fuckin', from everywhere". 20 May 2017. https://youtu.be/N06g2kc1Dxo?t=543. Zach's just a case example of the sentiment I mean. Related, at 2:35, Eugene pointing out that white people keep wanting to be mixed, which is another whole can of worms and also I hate ancestry tests in general so.
For more on Spock, I've taken a glance at but not actually quoted Lindsdey, Natasha. "Illegible and Unacceptable Representation: The Liminality of Spock in Star Trek (2009)" The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams' Final Frontier, ed Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington. McFarland, 2019. Pp. 151-165. https://books.google.com/books?id=9vWKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false it just looks cool
Moore, Ronald. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Series Bible. NP. 17 December 2003. http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Battlestar_Galactica/Battlestar_Galactica_Series_Bible.pdf The Sacred Texts!

Current Music: the distant future - the year 2000: finally, robotic beings rule the world

So I had a nice nap on the bus back from the office, which means I've got wind back in my sails to get writing again! It's gonna be a 2k word night :_D But presenting my work to myself in text rather than more piles of notes-to-self gives me a much better sense of accomplishment, and I need every bit of positive reinforcement I can find, so without further ado!

Feminist ethics: DONE
1. epistemic injustice vs trans people in ostentiably feminist spaces
2. 3296 words
  1. “All-Gender Restrooms.” [university webpage], pd April 2017, ad December 2019, [url]
  2. Criado-Perez, Caroline. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. New York: Abrams Press, 2019.
  3. Fricker, Miranda. “Epistemic Justice as a Condition of Political Freedom?” Synthese, vol. 190, no. 7, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Dec. 2012, pp. 1317–1332. Crossref, DOI:10.1007/s11229-012-0227-3.
  4. “INVISIBLE WOMEN DATA BIAS IN A WORLD DESIGNED FOR MEN By Caroline Criado Perez” Abramsbooks.com, Abrams. ND. ad 13 December 2019. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/invisible-women_9781419729072/
  5. Manne, Kate. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Oxford UP, 2018.
  6. Pal, Lubna. Polycystic ovary syndrome: current and emerging concepts. New York: Springer, 2013.
  7. Perry, Stephen. “Risk, Harm, Interests, and Rights” Risk: Philosophical Perspectives. Ed. Tim Lewens. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp 190-209
  8. “Students.” [university webpage], 2019, [url]
  9. ‘Word of the Year: They’. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. ad 10 December 2019, https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year/they
ToK: NOT DONE YET
1. RE the epistemic objection to torture
MBC: DONE
1. exam
Seminar: NOT DONE YET
1. RE the way Siri and Cortona and Alexa are being marketed as female assistants is actually really fucked up, not surprising but still fucked up

(ten fathoms deep in care / ten fathoms down in an element denser than air)

-Edna St Vincent Millay, Above These Cares

Skurge Voice: Behold!
my latest fic: the pressure that obtains (2654 words). gen, teen and up, no archive warnings apply, but heads up for discussion of valery's early moves towards suicidal behavior: somewhere back down the line I heard that he wouldn't take his dosimeter badge with him everywhere onsite, and I think I had to literally stare at the wall for a good moment after that. So, I had to explore that.

This is the first of the two I started back at the end of may before the series wrapped up, and >22.1% was fun but I feel like this one goes much deeper. I got pointers from Caterina, tryingtobealwaystrying, and Cam, and think it all came together in the end!
I also had this much longer to muck about in background reading, and came up with even more than could fit in the post-text note box on archive, so here we have, in full:

Radiation exposure symptoms rundown*: Tan (1), sore throat (2), loss of appetite (2), pancreatitis (pain that lets up when leaning forward) (at a certain point, eating can have severely negative consequences, but that’s in later stages) (2), insomnia (anxiety, nicotine, radiation) (1, 2). Alopecia (shown in the first episode) is starting to bend the rules, waiting as long as he did. Light sensitivity and difficulty in decontaminating thicker skin eg the palms are general side-effects of radiation exposure.

*I don’t want to actually get into his serious symptoms. And I don’t know the exact timeline of when each would start to manifest. This is as much detail as I want to get into, right here, but I also don’t want to seem like I’m pulling them out of the air for the text.

“The on-site head of the commission rotated every two weeks starting 9 May 1986, with various deputy premiers serving their turn as director. These included Ivan Silayev, Yuriy Maslyukov, Lev Voronin, Vladimir Gusev, Genadiy Vedernikov, and Boris Shcherbina.” (3) Shcherbina was also hospitalized sometime around early June, for probable-but-not-confirmed radiation sickness (4), so I guess that puts this sometime past August, at least. But I’m not really counting like that; if Legasov only started to take ill when his hair fell out after several months, movie magic is certainly in effect and things matter less and less. Exactly how much time is Legasov taking offsite? That information has to exist somewhere, but idk, I’m only a pendant when it’s convenient; if I can shape around it that’s nice but I’m not holding to it.

I have no idea what Silayev was like. But he’s first on the list, so I pulled him out.

Izyumov isn’t anyone at all. But speaking of him, now that I look at when I’ve ballparked this, there was actually a cement shortage in the Ukraine sometime in late August 1986 (5), which is why having proquest and insomnia is a perilous combo for me. So who knows, maybe they’re related. Really, I was just thinking about the high-voc stuff that cures quicker vs the kinds used in domestic structures.

Works cited:

Yaroshevsky, Alexey. “Chernobyl blast:Valery Legasov's battle”. RT. TV-Novosti, pub. 27 Apr, 2008. Ed. 28 Apr, 2008. via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpvvccmG2dE
Самоделова, Светлана. “Как убивали академика Легасова, который провел собственное расследование Чернобыльской катастрофы” Mk.Ru. Московский комсомолец, 26 апреля 2017 https://www.mk.ru/social/2017/04/25/kak-ubivali-akademika-legasova-kotoryy-provel-sobstvennoe-rassledovanie-chernobylskoy-katastrofy.html
1. Samodelova, Svetlana. Trans. Google Translate. “How Academician Legasov was killed, who conducted his own investigation of the Chernobyl disaster.” Mk.Ru. Moskovsky Komsomolets, 26 April 2017
2. I know gtranslate is far from perfect, but I’ve had luck with it for technical jargon despite syntax issues, and ‘myelocytes’ is pretty unambiguous, so I’m rolling with it but will defer to a better translation as soon as it exists
3. NB that this one also talks about the dosimeter issue itself
USA. CIA: Directorate of Intelligence. The Chernobyl’ Accident: Social And Political Implications [redacted]: A Research Paper. December 1987. As sanitized for release 2012/09/12. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP08S01350R000300900002-4.pdf. Also has a code SOV87-100786, fwiw. Thank you someone for getting an FOIA on this, but it’s also a complete headtrip.
Schmemann, Serge, "CHERNOBYL MANAGERS PUNISHED PRAVDA: SOME WORKERS MISSING, 'ON THE RUN'" Orlando Sentinel, Jun 16, 1986, pp. A1. ProQuest, doc id 276842170
Peracchio, Adrian "ANALYSIS Nuclear Optimism, Despite Chernobyl." Newsday, Aug 31, 1986, pp. 4. ProQuest, doc id 285373727

Further reading:

For a further account of the dosimeter issue, I’ve been directed to Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, by Serhii Plokhy, published 2018, though I haven’t found a copy yet myself. But the reviews are all good.
- Thank you tryingtobealwaystrying to setting me on this track; I think their post was the first place I heard about the dosimeter shenanigans back when, and then they were super encouraging on the research front!

speaking of my dive into the research deep end, I of course gave my local library a gander. And what do you know, but every reputable material on Chernobyl is checked out and has a waitlist. Now, this is terribly inconvenient for me personally, but honestly I love it so much - there are 27 whole people on one waitlist, that's such an excellent problem to have. I love this city and how curious we are, and I'm so glad that this show that is raging against passively absorbing a convenient position is inspiring people to look further. Librarians of the world, I hope you know how much I admire your mission.

Current Music: hairpin turns - the national

Buut I have got just under of 500 words of fic based on Valery Legasov being generally a sad dude: >22.1% on ao3, no archive warnings apply, gen, etc. Would fit decently somewhere in episode 4 but it really doesn't matter. Generally as upbeat as the show can be, which is to say, not really at all.
To be frank I'm less shaking my head at myself for engaging in the chernobyl miniseries like this; I know there's folks up in arms about historical people but I'm not bothered about that. Knowing the difference between fact and fiction is the meat and potatoes of this show, let's chill. No, I'm shaking my head at the fact that I had to go and cite sources. for fic! I'm done with finals! I don't need to be doing this! but, I did:

Cooper, Richard. "Smoking in the Soviet Union." British Medical Journal, v.285, 21 Aug 1982: 549-551. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aed6/f80070a0148217b0b64db2316b0662a663d8.pdf
Gilmore, Anna et al. “Prevalence of smoking in 8 countries of the former Soviet Union: results from the living conditions, lifestyles and health study.” American journal of public health vol. 94,12 (2004): 2177-87. doi:10.2105/ajph.94.12.2177 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448609/
Starks, Tricia A. “A Revolutionary Attack on Tobacco: Bolshevik Antismoking Campaigns in the 1920s.” American journal of public health vol. 107,11 (2017): 1711-1717. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304048 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637673/
Thun, Michael J et al. “Lung cancer occurrence in never-smokers: an analysis of 13 cohorts and 22 cancer registry studies.” PLoS medicine vol. 5,9 (2008): e185. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050185 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2531137/

Also, this is unrelated, but - I applied for a promotion! it got hairy for a minute when the server had a fit, but it's out of my hands and my supervisor will read it and we'll go from there!
I do feel like the right person for this job. Which is incredible in the first place, considering how terrified I was to step in as a volunteer just last fall. But I've grown, and it's been thanks to this office. I'll get to maintain my position if I don't get the promotion, so it's not like I'll be losing out on this place, but I want to do right by it, and that means the promotion. Hey, if there's someone more qualified who waltzes in, sure, and I have faith that my supervisor will pick a decent person! But if that means me, let's do it!

Current Music: Will Jay - Talking In Your Sleep

ya boy is DONE WITH HIS FINALS!!!

This latest one was on epistemic injustice, and how resistance to counter-evidence is a consistent factor but not a sufficient motivation to the whole issue, clocking in at 1730 words

Fricker, Miranda. “Epistemic Justice as a Condition of Political Freedom?” Synthese, vol. 190, no. 7, 2013, pp. 1317–1332.
Lenzer, Jeanne. "FDA Bars Own Expert from Evaluating Risks of Painkillers." British Medical Journal 329.7476 (2004): 1203
Maitra, Ishani. “The Nature of Epistemic Injustice” Philosophical Books Vol. 51 No. 4 October 2010 pp. 195–211
Nabel, Elizabeth G. “Coronary Heart Disease in Women — An Ounce of Prevention.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 343, no. 8, Massachusetts Medical Society, Aug. 2000, pp. 572–574.
Perry, Stephen. “Risk, Harm, Interests, and Rights” Risk: Philosophical Perspectives. Ed. Tim Lewens. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp 190-209

I put out 9952 words, including a few short answer sections to the finals. I can't believe that's nearly 40 pages! Looking at it in those figures, I'm quite proud of myself, but the real takeaway is that I can't do this again. This was my first semester in the master's program, as well as working in a legal clinic. Along with commuting and my own baseline, that's too much to have taken on all at once, and now I know why the department was making those faces at my schedule.
I'm still working on the application, but if I get the Directorship at the office, tptb have the funding to keep us working over the summer, and I've got already got Law And Society on the calendar. It's a 300-level, and knocking one out early will let me do just 3 undergrads and 1 grad course in the fall. With working and commuting, that should be more humane. I'm glad I'm done with this semester, let's not do it again.
On the upside, I've also done something I hadn't managed to do since back on the east coast - I've made a friend! Phil's a rad guy and I'm so glad my mental health is in the place where I can keep up with interpersonal things, it's def a change for the better. Breaking news, folks: things are better when you've got friends to do them with.

Congrats on the semester, everyone! Here's to summer! :DDD

Current Music: Toothbrush - DNCE

not out of my hands, still need to turn these in, but real quick I've got the hart-dworkin ethics one done at 2064 words!

works cited:

Dworkin, Ronald. Law's Empire. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1986. Print.
Guest, Stephen. “How to Criticize Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Law.” Analysis, vol. 69, no. 2, 2009, pp. 352–364. JSTOR
Hart, H L. A. The Concept of Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. Print.
Mahoney, Jon. “Objectivity, Interpretation, and Rights: A Critique of Dworkin.” Law and Philosophy, vol. 23, no. 2, 2004, pp. 187–222. JSTOR
Ozcan, Mehmet. “Ethics and Law: Reassessment on the Legal Positivism.” Philosophy Study, vol 4, 2014, pp. 75-96.
Shapiro, Scott. “The “Hart-Dworkin” Debate: A Short Guide For The Perplexed.” University of Michigan Law School: Public Law And Legal Theory Working Paper Series, no. 77, 2017

Current Mood: drained

I'm so past done with Nietzsche; I've got 2062 words on him and Aristotle and pathways towards whateveronearth they each think a good life is, and every single one of them is Bull

Works cited:

Abegg, Edmund. Political Morality in a Disenchanted World, UPA, New York, 2013.
Aristotle. Politics, 384-322 BC. Trans. CDC Reeve. Cambridge:Hackett, 1998. Print.
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, 384-322 BC. Trans. T Irwin. Cambridge: Hackett, 1985. Print.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1975. Trans. A. Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. Print.
Haldane, John. “Is Every Action Morally Significant?” Philosophy, vol. 86, no. 337, 2011, pp. 375–404.
Nietzsche, Foucault. On the Genealogy of Morals. 1887. Trans. W Kaufmann. New York: Random House, 1967. Print.

I'm supposed to have another 2k to turn in tomorrow/this afternoon and :___________D we'll see what happens, I don't grok Dworkin enough to riff anything off at this level of brain, but this what I've got to work with after the anxiety's had it's say!!
5 hours before I need to head back out, we'll just see!!!

Current Mood: frustrated

I have now turned in 2/5 finals, clocking in at just over 4k words fed to turnitin. The other three courses are much lighter in volume, and I've got two more days to finish before going back in to hand them over.

selected works cited:

Cole, Daniel. “Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis and Collective Action.” Institute for Policy Integrity, 2009
Cranor, Carl. “Toward a Non-Consequentialist Approach to Acceptable Risks.” Risk: Philosophical Perspectives, ed Tim Lewens, Routledge, 2007, 36-53
Gibson, Kevin. “Rethinking the Discourse” Philosophy Now, vol 88, 2012.
Montzka, Stephen. “Hydrochlorofluorocarbon measurements in the Chlorofluorocarbon Alternatives Measurement Project” Earth System Research Laboratory: Global Monitoring Division. NOAA. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/hats/about/hcfc.html accessed 18 May 2019.
Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Prather, Michael J., and Robert T. Watson. “Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Future Levels of Atmospheric Chlorine and Bromine.” Nature, vol. 344, no. 6268, Springer Nature, Apr. 1990, pp. 729–734

apologies for liveblogging finals, I just need some sort of benchmark of productivity, and progress looks a lot better typed up than the 'how many words to go' post-it note I've got hanging on the wall next to me
I crave that sweet sweet validation

So when I went to upload my final paper for the seminar, I checked the assignment and for a second I misread "15-20 pages, double-spaced" as 15-20 double-sided pages and I swear I nearly just put my head down and cried

I hate this paper, I should've picked nietzsche's slave morality and the tech bros, I would've been miserable writing about nietzsche too but at least it wouldn't've dealt with trying to explain john calvin's relation to the modern day, I can't do this, my one upshot is that I know not to pick anything like this for my thesis when it comes up

Well, it's over, at least

selected works cited:

Bible. Authorized King James Version, Oxford UP, 1998
Bulwa, D. “BART admits 77 percent of train cameras are fake or don’t work” SF Gate. Feb 9, 2016
Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1536. Trans. H. Beveridge. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2008
Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, 1963. Trans. A. Sheridan. London: Routledge, 2003
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1975. Trans. A. Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1977
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: Altemus, 1895
Johnson, Dominic. God Is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
Keeling, B. “BART replaces all fake security cameras with real ones” SF Curbed. June 28, 2017
Lattimore, Kayla. “When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code” NPRED, from National Public Radio, 17 July 2017
Noll, Mark. “Interview Mark Noll.” PBS Frontline: The Jesus Factor, Public Broadcast Service, 10 Dec. 2003
Smith, Gregory et. al. “America’s Changing Religious Landscape” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., 2015
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1958. Trans. T. Parsons. Mineola: Dover Books, 2003

and another thousand words on ethics and economics tonight, just give me a minute to eat something first