wanderlust of the mind: Wikipedia

i'm pretty sure the government would be extremely displeased to discover the disproportionate amount of time i spend traipsing through the cyberworld (barring many, many sites which have been blocked by WatchGuard at my work for various reasons, e.g. "shopping," "arts," "entertainment," "personals and dating," (i.e. facebook..sad face...) etc.) compared to the actual amount of time i spend working on automating court forms, since i basically signed away a year of my life and took an oath swearing that i would use this year (and the government's money) to help low-income communities. however, to my defense, i'm waiting for people to test the forms i have automated and offer me feedback, so i'm only going to waste time on the internet until i get back all the feedback i need.

some of my time is spent on MLIA, my mom is a fob, unrelated captions, and customers are always right looking at their updated posts, and for the past couple of days, updating my blog. however, there is a finite amount of time i can spend at these websites before i run out of new posts to look at, and so as of late i have been delving into the seemingly infinite depths of information that is wikipedia (although i was too lazy to do so for yesterday's post, haha). i seriously think i could spend months just reading through all the articles on wikipedia; now THAT would be a fun job to have.

here are the top 3 facts i found out from wikipedia today:

1) louis althusser was a crazy who strangled his wife to death.

ok, so there were probably many better, more sensitive and politically-correct ways to phrase that little tidbit of information, but i haven't really been known for my sensitivity or political correctness. if you (all 3 readers of my blog) have been offended, i apologize. anyway, getting back to the point...i think i remember hearing something about this in my literature in theoretical perspectives class last year, but i could just be making that up. in any case, it was pretty jarring to read about a pretty prominent (or wait, was he prominent? i feel like i know almost next to nothing about philosophy...) marxist philosopher strangling his wife. apparently he suffered from numerous bouts of mental instability, and he was probably going through one when this incident with his wife happened. i didn't need wikipedia to tell me he was crazy though; i knew it as soon as i read his hocus-pocus mumbo-jumbo about "interpellation" and "mis-recognition" and "ideological state apparatuses."

2) according to wikipedia, despite my denials, i am a hipster based on how i wear my scarf.

i've received a lot of flack from people because of my not-so-well-informed fashion purchase a couple of years ago. i thought it was just a cool looking black and white patterned scarf, but apparently i bought something that closely resembles a keffiyeh, with the coloring conjuring associations with the fatah movement. to be quite honest, i don't really have a stance regarding the whole Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but apparently there are many people around me who do and have given me a hard time for wearing a politically-incorrect/insensitive scarf. on a completely unrelated note (but still related, actually), i received a lot of crap from koreans when i wore said scarf in korea because a boy band (big bang) had popularized the scarf a couple months before my study abroad experience. koreans made fun of me for being a fangirl and wearing the "big bang scarf," and didn't even listen to my protests that i had, in fact, purchased this scarf long before i even knew who big bang was.

ANYWAY, according to wikipedia, i'm a hipster because (and i quote verbatim): "hipsters folded them in half to make a triangle, then gathered the scarf around the neck to leave one point facing down in the center of the chest." to my defense, i don't wear my scarf in this manner because i'm a hipster or a wannabe, but because i can't think of any other way to wear this particular scarf; if anything, rather than being a hipster i'm just unoriginal and too lazy to come up with another way to wear my scarf.

3) there is a plane that has pikachu painted on it.

apparently, all nippon airlines has three planes that have pikachu liveries. it is now one of my life goals to fly in one of these three airplanes.