the dark side of midnight

it's close to midnight, the other side of it, and i have *so* much to read and do...

the meeting with wordsworth this morning went well. auditing a class on shakespeare's comedies is fun! and i managed to impress the lecturer by informing him of the "benign violation" theory of humour and using it to justify the original folio's categorization of william's works.

the sonnets class i'm registered for was cancelled on account of a huge rally in continuation of the protesting. too much sun on my face.

big lunch, running into kc's sister, walking into class late for the lecturer who everyone's nuts about. she is great, and i'm pretty certain i made a really good impression.

work in herzeliya: surreal moment of taking mmf outside and berating him for bad practices after i discovered that everything's going to go through another redesign. the rest of the evening was kinda boring, aside from a moment wherein i lost patience with our secretary talking over me (i shouted, she shut up and listened, then i felt bad) and about half an hour of being super-puzzled until finding a bug that's been irritating me for a while.

an interesting conversation with mmf in the car, wherein i convinced him (more or less) than my world-view isn't as enslaving as normal ones (although being aware of the fictional nature of one's inner mapping doesn't mean one doesn't get carried away sometimes - that's the problem with human psychology) and got him to agree (for what that's worth) that paying the price of immediate mobility in favour of public transport is worthwhile in spite of the infrastructure not being nearly as good as it should be.

issues at work in the other office up the wazoo, but some of the evening was fun. fretting about policemen on the way to the bus as usual, reading on the way home, tasty dinner waiting for me, and basically spending about an hour clearing emails; i'm ready to buckle down and get some serious reading done.

and then magically learn french in the morning :P