Weekend Procrastination
27 January 2003, 11:30 AM

I spent most of this weekend catching up with reading (and procrastinating catching up with reading) assigned essays for my Anthropology Theories class. Gods I HATE reading Karl Marx. People who write like that should be shot. It's classic academic speak at it's worst.

Yes, I know that there's a lot of ideas in his essays that had a HUGE impact on 20th century thinking - I could see it again and again as I was reading. (I kept going, "OH! So that's where they get these ideas...") That means it's really important for me to understand this stuff in order to understand a lot of 20th century anthropological (and sociological) theory (and critics of those theories).

But dear gods, it's like slogging around in the dark through a tar pit with your only light being a strobe flash and your only directions coming from some really ticked Alzheimer's patient.

*sigh* It sort of consumed my whole weekend.