excess screen time

thoughts when going to bed last night, reading the wired article on internet surveillance: people who wed are sometimes referred to as "lifers". when you're designing and building your marriage home with surveillance measures in mind, you're probably marrying the wrong person.
america has undoubtedly married the wrong person. is marriage really the right option? i mean, we're talking about a government that takes taxpayers' money to fund secret, unaccountable projects that aren't in the nation's interests. wtf?

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t'was a night of chills, spilled water, and sweats. and amongst all that some lucid dreaming involving snowboarding and riding a motorcycle a very long way. i woke up thinking: "my sinuses are all up in my face". i think i'm feeling a bit better now, but not by much. it's been two days already, body. come on! i'm going to spare too much detail, but the cough is driving me nuts and i really want to be able to train tomorrow without risking making myself seriously sick. i had bronchitis recently enough, thanks, and i've only just gotten over the resulting shortness of breath.

i've spent all day* indoors, alone, with my eyes glued to screens. well, i think my wall counts as a "screen". i've gotten through a fair amount of french but probably not as much as i could have or should have. i've come to the conclusion that facebook's movies suck. arnez j: racially motivated had me laughing hysterically, he's fantastic! the season two pseudo-finale of downton abbey (unless the christmas special counts) was a proper roller-coaster and not at all satisfying. watching bits and pieces of ufc 83: i just saw kalib starnes spend fifteen minutes running away. it was mortifying.

oh, and a little bit of tekken. i've decided to try to get comfortable with new fighters.

* i was expecting to go out when the cleaning lady came in, but she didn't arrive. so that'll happen tomorrow, i guess.

---duolingo:

1. phrase of the day: "leur chair est délicieuse"

2. sometimes duolingo doesn't understand me when i read something. but why is it that when a coughing fit begins mid-sentence and i give up, i get "correct" every time?! perhaps, in the exam, i should just fake coughing fits whenever i'm asked a question i don't know how to answer. according to today's experience i'll pass for sure :P