Week's end.

[silveradept]

And we're happy. While most of my day was spent either sleeping or doing readings (blech), I did get a couple pieces of larger puzzles done today, too, so I feel a bit happier at that. It's starting to come into focus. Now all I need to do is figure out what I'm going to do to write all the other stuff. Maybe Sunday I'll start in on that paper, and see if I can't send a draft of the other paper for review. Still not allowed to panic, as the closest due date is still a week away (ish). Definitely want to get that other set of papers done before the break, if at all possible.

And now I can't even run and grab my tinfoil hat when I'm feeling paranoid - MIT students (possibly in a hack, I suspect) have shown that tinfoil receives better at government-only bands. Although that may mean we need to use our tinfoil to figure out what they're sending.

Speaking of government, apparently I really want to get done with my schooling soon before the feds cut my aid. The state's been slashing funding worse than a fledgling fanficcer, and now the federal government wants to write a sequel.

Thanks to the awesome powers of wicked_wish, there's a video gem behind this link: Viking Rock. Thanks to greyweirdo's awesome, there is the Michigan Accent Pronunciation Guide. So if you're ever confused about anything I say or how I say it, take a gander at that link. You'll be enlightened without ever having to see any of the lighthouses.

Actually, greyweirdo is even more awesome than that - he dialed God yesterday asking about what to do over Pat Robertson's comment, and here's the response - God had some choice words. Additionally, a different minister wrote Pat a nice letter about his precognitive powers. If this keeps up, Pat will need to go to Starbucks for a name change.

Actually, he might just need to re-orient his perspective. Actually, most of us might need that particular twelve-step program. And while we're talking about the perspective of life, why not go visit your local temp agency and see what they're doing to help people who had jobs and lost them.

Last thing for tonight - Much as I think I'm a White Mage, and might enjoy having the skillset of the Black Mage, I'm really more of a Time Mage, at least according to the quiz.

Time Mage You scored 22% physical, 75% magic, 44% versatile, and 55% good!

You control a very specific branch of magic: Manipulation of space and time. You are capable of making time flow more quickly for your allies and making your enemies slow down, or even stop. You can also manipulate space, creating localized gravity wells or redirecting the focus of other spells. On the downside, when your friends need something else, you can't do much.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 4% on physical You scored higher than 97% on mystical You scored higher than 51% on versatile You scored higher than 42% on good

Link: The Final Fantasy Job Class Test written by Artscrafter. Ah, and the day just passed was apparently Veteran's Day in the country. I give a salute to all of those who were lucky enough to avoid being killed in battle. I salute even more those who were killed in battle - and curse those who throw away lives carelessly by not respecting the needs of the people being sent into places that are actively trying to kill them. I curse even more the people who decide to make frivolous engagements, drag domestic defense troops into foreign engagements, lure the poor and impressionable by offering Faustian deals and trying to build a glamorous image of a reality that is not so, and all the while, cut the benefits of the lucky and try to take away the freedoms that those veterans and dead have been safeguarding or trying to promote. But the thing I curse most of all is war. I hate a world where war is engaged in. If it were a last resort, then it wouldn't suck quite as bad, but I'd still rather have none of it. Yeah, I'm a utopian dreamer, probably the first to go when the jackbooted heel of the Imperial Eagle reigns in this country, but I'd rather have a world without war. The Gaian collective would be nice - after all, it would be better to be able to allow each person an equal share of the resources, of the technologies, and of the people. We'd all be doing our share of the work, too, but it would hopefully be at the things that we enjoy the most and don't mind doing as a job. We could probably make a lot of progress as a species if we would set down the differences and start working like the dominant species we claim to be. We could find ways and means of being environmentally protective and technologically sound and all those other things that our utopias do so well. I think it's time we started deciding our ultimate fate. Let's set the clock in motion. If we're supposed to end by destroying ourselves, then it would be better to let Gaia start healing. If we're supposed to progress beyond ourselves, then there's no time like the present to start the wheels turning. Let's go, and see whether or not there will be anyone to tend the Clock of the Long Now when it strikes next.

Comments

[shenalia.livejournal.com]

No offense, but they've been needing to cut spending. x_x

[silveradept]

Yeah, costs are getting ridiculous in general. I just think that slicing up education budgets is the wrong place to be looking to trim lots of fat, where there are probably several other more qualified places to get chopped.