Hah!

I added inches to my paper today, and now it checks in at a respectable four pages complete. I feel so relieved. Of course, things only get better from here, meaning there's more paper potential as well as the insanities of examinations.

I also found out tonight that the trip for the Big Ten Tourney for Women's Basketball Band lands squarely in midterm madness. Le sigh. I'll talk to profs and TA's tomorrow to see if I can get things shifted around so that I can go. I doubt it's possible, but I'll ask anyway. Oh, well. It's not required, but it'd be nice if things worked out so nicely that I didn't have to worry about this kind of stuff.

I've also noticed that when I get typing, I tend to crisscross a lot of my letters, creating teh more than the, really. It's nice to have a spellchecker that will help tidy up after me a bit, but it makes me wonder whether I'm just outpacing my fingers with my thoughts or something like that. Maybe it's ingrained patterns asserting themselves before I get the chance to correct them. Either way, I still think I might want to try and learn Dvorak at some point in my life, if things get really bad.

Although Roommate S was peeved today. Apparently, she mistook one model number for another in one of her reports, and the professor was going to send her up to the Honor Council for potential plagiarism, I think, without consulting her to see if it was a typo. She was able to correct the matter as best I can tell, but it put her very much out of sorts for when I saw her next. I think the prof needed to consult her about something like that.

It appears to be that Kerry will be the Democratic candidate in these U.S. elections this year, as he continues to win primaries. We'll see where he solidifies on issues to see whether he's worth it. The Michigan Daily gave him a pass in favor of Edwards. It may not matter. I may be voting out of the two-party system anyway... and I can hear it now. "Go ahead, waste your vote!"

Oh, well. Bedtime. Lecture in the morning and all that.

Whee.

So today was fun. I got accused (in a poking fun way) of napping in lecture yesterday, something I don't admit to. (I think I was just resting my head against the seats, because at that moment, that's what felt best. If I fell asleep, I want proof, like someone hearing me saw logs...)

Oh, well. It wasn't anything important that I might have napped through.

The book I'm reading for Sci-fi class is pretty awful right now... very dry and somewhat boring. Hopefully it gets better.

I now have a new group to go out and get stuff for: Liquid Tension Experiment has just made my list of good people, and they're all instrumentals so I like them very much.

Papers, games, and decisions, all to be made tomorrow!

A bit of yesterday's news: France's lower house passed a ban on religious apparel. The official wording seems to be that conspicuous religious clothing and symbols will be banned from public schools. Here's a link to an AP summary. This is both profoundly disturbing and very interesting at the same time. I want to keep a very close eye on this one and see if it works or causes mass riots (not necessarily a mutually exclusive proposition).

I love Calvin and Hobbes, so the following Quizilla is right up my alley.

( Why, yes, I'm Hobbes. )

( Although Calvin's description was fun, too. )

And the final thing for tonight is a Manga Meme that's making the rounds.

Scenario: Your life is, as it is, quite ordinary -- but there is a hidden truth, hidden even to you. In the japanese manga [Comic Book] that is about your ordinary life, and this hidden truth, describe the page in which the hidden truth is revealed to you.

First panel, top third: Camera centered on frame. Protagonist has stepped into a shadowed room with two spots of light, one in the center, one on him.

Second panel, right side, small square in second third: Camera over protagonist's left shoulder, with other spotlight in full view, indistinct human-like figure in spot, but upside-down, apparently with feet on ceiling.

Third panel, left side of second third: Camera close-up upon upside-down figure's face. The face is exactly the protagonist's, and it is speaking. "You can't say you weren't expecting this."

Fourth panel, bottom third: Camera has both faces and a slight amount of upper torso in profile. Protagonist is visibly shocked at meeting something that looks like himself. His image appears slightly bored.

P: "You can't possibly be real."

I: "Think about where you are when you say that."

P: "So what are you doing here?"

I: "Haven't I told you that the best way to gain perspective on anything is to stand on your head and look at it again?"

I dunno if I'm somehow violating the mechanics of the meme by including dialogue, but that's probably what it looks like to me.