Concerning the rose which blooms but knows not why

So I have finished up my first semester of graduate work and I cannot be happier with my school, my program, the classes I took. It's been a very rewarding time these past few months. Although, I do miss my friends and I do miss the songs we sang and the chords we strummed. But, oddly enough, just like when I got to GC and felt like that was where I was supposed to be, I feel like BC is where I'm supposed to be for now.

That said, I have a surprisingly beautiful quote from St. Augustine which I need to share. It's from book X of his Confessions and sometimes gets called "Late Have I Loved Thee." For me, it's up there with Rilke. At least for now.

Too late have I loved you,
O Beauty so ancient and so new,
too late have I loved you!

Behold, you were within me, while I was outside:
it was there that I sought you,
and, a deformed creature,
rushed headlong upon these things of beauty
which you have made.
You were within me, but I was not with you.
They kept me far from you,
those fair things which,
if they were not in you, would not exist at all.

You have called to me,
and have cried out,
and have shattered my deafness.
You have blazed forth with light,
and have shone upon me,
and you have put my blindness to flight!

You have sent forth fragrance,
and I have drawn in my breath,
and I pant after you.
I have tasted you,
and I hunger and thirst after you.

You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

Do Anything Special?

So papers are needing to be written but I have discovered a new addiction. Well, make that two. In the midst of thinking about differance, undecidability, the condition of possibility for ethical action within the intersubjective relation and divine economy, participation and separation, ontological difference, etc...I have been introduced and consequently held hostage by two shows.

[1] Heroes. I was extremely skeptical of this show when it first was advertised and because I usually worked mondays I didn't get to see it. Well, I've put off writing papers to watch the first season. I've stayed up later than I should to watch the show. I think the charm comes from a creative use of traditional heroic archetypes. The most interesting characters are usually those who don't have any abilities (the cheerleader's dad, the politician) because there is more to gain/lose and I can't tell whose side they're on pretty much ever. In some ways, it reminds me of Firefly

[2] Flight of the Conchords. can help myself. like i said before...it's brilliant.

p.s. you should listen to midlake.