Personal Log: Ben Versteegt

I haven't posted a blog in more than a month, I think. How bad of me. It's just that I've been too busy with university work, posts, stories, watching DS9 (weee!! ) and being too lazy to update this blog. I still am busy (and lazy), but I have decided this inactivity cannot go on for much longer.

Okay, what to write... I was thinking about writing a personal log for Velden (either while trapped in the ghost ship or when he is still on DS9 and watches the Odyssey depart the station without him). A personal log for Morabulu would be fun too: he could describe how he just heard that the station is going to be evacuated (although he won't have time for a personal log at that time, I suppose).

A log for Elan might be fun too -- I haven't written any for her yet, so it's about time. It would be a log in which a tired Elan realises she likes to play music again. A journal for Nivas is fun as well... he's been going through a lot too, lately. I want to write a log for Winter one day as well... but all she does is yell at cadets. Maybe I should make her life more interesting...

Oh, that reminds me, Rob and I still need (well, not need, actually. More like 'want') to write an Academy story one day, with Winter, Baine and a few cadets as the main characters. It's going to be fun... I also want to continue with my Odyssey story, which, unfortunately, I haven't been adding much to, I'm afraid. I've been far too busy with new chapters of the Alpha Centauri Mystery (the only story so far for which I have a monthly deadline ) and one new chapter of the first Batavia episode. All in all, I'm busy.

But on the very top of my list is, of course, my studies. I have a Bachelor Thesis to write, and I'm going to spend as many time and attention to it as it needs. And that's a lot. The thesis will be about Gadamer's hermeneutics, (of course, a philosophical topic for a philosophical thesis, duh ) and I have bought Gadamer's book: Truth and Method. it's one of the most influential (and perhaps even *the* most influential) publication in the field of hermeneutics. It's very interesting, actually: how, I will ask in my thesis, can someone interpret and read a text that was written in the past, in the way the author originally meant it? These and other questions arise in my thesis, and I hope to answer them (or answer them in the way Gadamer does and criticize those answers).

In a change of topic, I also occasionally play Elite Force with a bunch of very silly people (aka other Frontier Fleet members). And, coincidentally, that's what I'm going to do now. I could write long blogs about all of the topics mentioned above, and I probably will (muwhahahaha), but now I'm going.

Ah, good. This blog has turned out to be long, too. Very good. After all, I have a reputation to uphold.