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hawkwing_lb) wrote2009-04-20 12:25 am
hawkwing_lb) wrote2009-04-20 12:25 am
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It closes fast upon exam season. Well, I suspect in a sense it is already here, since I have one week of classes and then approximately five weeks of varying levels of panic.
I would like to remember that I usually survive exams much better than I believe I will. But right now? With the term's work not yet finished and the revision yet to begin?
These are humdrum worries, surely. Yet my present state of anxiety rather vexes me.
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I sometimes wonder, a propos of nothing very much, how many other people think we are living in the period immediately before the end of recognisable human civilisation. Optimism is not my greatest virtue: I occasionally think that in a few short decades, the science fiction of space ships and extra-planetary adventures will become an interesting footnote in literary history, relegated, along with unicorns, to the land of unconsummatable fantasies. Always assuming there is sufficient civilisation left in a couple of centuries to support such pasttimes as literary history.
See? Optimism, still not my greatest virtue.
I would like to remember that I usually survive exams much better than I believe I will. But right now? With the term's work not yet finished and the revision yet to begin?
These are humdrum worries, surely. Yet my present state of anxiety rather vexes me.
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I sometimes wonder, a propos of nothing very much, how many other people think we are living in the period immediately before the end of recognisable human civilisation. Optimism is not my greatest virtue: I occasionally think that in a few short decades, the science fiction of space ships and extra-planetary adventures will become an interesting footnote in literary history, relegated, along with unicorns, to the land of unconsummatable fantasies. Always assuming there is sufficient civilisation left in a couple of centuries to support such pasttimes as literary history.
See? Optimism, still not my greatest virtue.