a new class of rules

so, i am adopting a new class of rules for my posting on this blog.

1. titles of blog posts are now allowed to be a reflection of the content of the post that they name.
   
2. following the grammatical rule of capitalization is not optional; whereas it was prohibited before.
3. posts will not always aim to either entertain or put the reader to sleep; posts can still do both of those, but they can also aim at neither.
   
4. posts need not always be accessible to a most general audience; instead, they can be on whatever i please.
5. there is no need to attempt clever in the posts--this was implicit in the old rule-class.
   

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Ah, a new life. i really feel free. I can capitalize 'I's if I want, but there is no reason to think i have to. wow, this is exhilarating. Well, now to say something boring.

I realized today, that when you need to read something (in my case philosophy) in preparation for a paper, it is a lot more fun to read something that isn't for the paper that you are supposed to be working on. In my case, I should be reading an article called: "Plurals and complexes" (I have to write a paper myself on material related to it), but I found that i am having a lot more fun reading select sections from a book called, Possible Worlds and an article called, "Postscripts to: 'Counterpart theory and quantified modal logic'." Normally it would be a bad thing to get distracted reading other things like this, but in my case, i have another paper that I have to be working on to which these two pieces pertain. So, it isn't so bad.

Actually, this suggests a strategy:

1. Plan (with all your might) to work on a particular paper.
   
2. Think about the paper that you have planned (with all your might) to work on.
3. Sit down and start reading books/articles pertinent to the one you have to write.
4. Get distracted a number of times.
5. Walk over to the shelf and pick up some books/articles pertaining to the other paper.
   
6. Start reading.
7. Think hard about the other paper.
8. Write a blog post (ok, well this step isn't mandatory).
9. Go back to the original book/article that you were supposed to be reading.

At this point, one should discover that the difficulty reading the paper has subsided. if this doesn't last for very long, return to step 5 and repeat.

Wow, everyone better click on the permalink thingy and come back to this post whenever they get distracted from whatever reading or paper writing that they should be doing!