This semester is turning out to be very busy, and I am only teaching 1 class with my other classes. I want to perform well for my students, so I make sure and prepare rigorously for them; I also want to perform well for my professors, so I prepare rigorously for them, as well. Puts me in the position of a lot of preparation and not much social life – not that I had that much to begin with.
I am tempted to go on a big Facebook cleaning spree to clear out some people I just don’t care about – I don’t care about their uninformed and ignorant positions, I don’t care about their simple domesticity, I don’t care about their ridiculous political views, and I don’t care if they know anything about me, either.
Justin: as we have discussed, one should undertake a periodic “facebook friends” purging from time to time. “Purging” is a good way to describe it. I wonder how I ever agreed to allow the types you describe onto my “friends” list in the first place. Which begs the question, assumning they were ever my firends “IRL,” well how the fuck did that happen? That’s a much more significant lapse in judgment. Things change, and people too. And thank God for that. In that spirit, I bastardize this well-known Jefferson quote: “The tree of “facebook friends list” must be refreshed from time to time with the cyber-blood of people you don’t want to hear from ever again in a million lifetimes.”