lazy reader

i didn't read nearly as much as i'd have liked last night... i was totally out of focus. pg watching zim behind my back didn't move me either way. the good news today was that i still managed to read further than i was supposed to, but that time could still have been spent more productively.

i walked onto campus surprised by the tent for the annual commemoration of the war on gaza - where's ours for sderot? i'm sensing a slant.

the italian started our day with discursive abuse and parentheses: he spends most of our classes talking to himself and amusing himself with only vaguely connected trivia. if i didn't know what "vaudeville" was, i would have written it down and fretted about its relevance to the material... what a horrendous course it's become!

a cyborg manifesto got me to thinking...

i finally understand that medium / message thing.

a description of the periodical press got me thinking of archie digests, for some reason.

after class, i got the ball rolling on our study group, and had a good talk with my kibbutz cousin. she's really had a rough time, and the last few months are no exception :(

i was so tired i almost lost my phone cover just before the second class. not cool.

things i shouldn't have said in our second class: "the difference between melville and wilde? wilde has the power of subtlety, and says remarkably interesting things".
when everyone agreed with me, he mocked our lack of taste - i couldn't control the urge: "it's a good thing sanity is defined by the majority!"
ironic how easily that can be manipulated - i don't believe in sanity, *because* it's so easy to turn on someone and claim them unreliable. i apologized to him afterwards, only to discover that he'd quite forgotten about it and i had to repeat the sentiment so he knew what he was forgiving.
don't you hate it when that happens?

work: lots of it. re-basing with our SVN is overly complicated. i think i got through the worst of my current project.

"the problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present" - calvin

i think i need to go and find my girlfriend.