This, And Not My English Paper 1, Is Rambling

If all your blogs were lined up along two panels facing each other and creating in between a corridor or walkway, a casual stroll through it and past them would show me a million complaints about poor Prelim results. Hey, who are all of you to complain? You all improved, by whatever margins. I didn't. Benchmarked against 40, it seemed impossible to improve. Being me, I refused to believe that. Meaning devastation when revelation came, crushing in its light impersonality. My first non-7 for English. Being kept off my pedestal for History. Having to share it with a member of the weaker sex for Physics. Oh God Physics why Physics? That is a guy's domain for crying out loud. See the time has come when mere 7s do not satiate me. Let me now move into Relativism.

The reason why some other people can be happy with scraping a 6 is that (some of you tend to put the word "because" here in place of "that", which is no good), very simply, their scores have up till now been well shy of that. Not so with me. 7s do not suffice, I want annihilation. So, how do we define "good"? The apparent emotional entity at work here dictates that we each impose our own standards on the objective scale (grades) to determine goodness and progress. In this case, the scale isn't quite objective for it glosses over the fact that the same part of its range can mean different things to different people. That's not to say that it is inaccurate or that it is a-sequential or anything like that. It's just that it would be too reductionist to say that one interpretation of a fact or standard should fit all. Even in this individualist and postmodernist context in which truth is determined by the individual, we see an active pursuit of a, though individually-defined, goal or objective, and not the renunciation of all semblance of objective or progress that modernists disdainfully accuse postmodernists of. It is centrism (the unyielding validity of a central direction) and not progress that is jettisoned by relativism.

I think it is ridiculous team planning to have 3 Premiership quality rightbacks (I say this without fully believing it; I still think Belletti is crap) and 2 Premiership quality forwards. Scolari will now learn. But what a bummer of a season to have with injuries. It's barely October and we've lost 3 for the long-term. In any case isn't it queer that it's always the players you value as really crucial that get injured? Why can't Florent Malouda get injured? Why can't Belletti be the one out for 6 months?