Ah, not yet.

Let us begin a new year on the Chinese Lunar Calendar, on Wednesday... which ironically coincides with the beginning of the Lent season, or so I've heard. Welcome the Year of the Rooster and utilize its unique energies to bolster your prosperity. Feast carefully, I suppose. (Juxtapositions are funny. Laugh.)

I believe my horoscope said to beware of overspending oneself - perhaps the President has taken that advice, although likely in all the wrong directions. I think I much favor more lordmork's views on the subject, simply because it makes more sense to me than the "tax cuts for the rich and cutting programs for the poor" mentality that the current Administration seems to have. That idea, couple with a few others, might be one of our warning signs - hopefully we don't follow the Greeks to our own downward spiral. Otherwise, the stuff that makes science fiction good may not work anymore, because all the hypotheticals will have happened, and people making more hypotheticals may end up on the wrong side of a lot of institutions.

Of course, to celebrate the replacement of February, we should present true, false, and meaningless material all at once. Just because we can. Not because the fnords are telling us to.

Congratulations, Patriots. Well-done. Tomorrow is class, and more revision. Remind myself that I need to send off an e-mail about getting recommendation letters written.

*encouragement!*

Or something. Not just because midterms are two weeks away. Also because I need it. Not because things are going badly, but that things are going slowly and confusingly. Perhaps I need the perception shift that goes with laughter.

Perhaps I should think about gifting something (although I'd wonder what I would actually have to give as a gift to someone) Maybe it would be better to share, instead.

And in some of the readings for my class on Wednesday, I found it interesting that people were talking about William S. Borroughs and the Internet, even though the two didn't really meet, but in their writing I saw some of the principles of the Discordian. Strange, is it not, that they could trace themselves all the way back to Beat, yes? Or is it merely another succession along the continuum that Beat started and hasn't fully been resolved yet?

You never know, do you? At some point, it could be a giant succession.

Of course, if it is, then we do really need them around, especially with knuckleheads like these that lordmork quotes. If they're still part of the mainstream, then we need more Millicents than ever.

Anyway, bed. Work in the morning, of which I will probably fall asleep during the lunch hour of.