Wow... am I ever behind.

But at the moment, everything on the system seems... stable. I haven't had a hard-lock yet and I've been running at about what I would normally be doing. This means good things to come. If it stays like this for a little while, then I have to start thinking about how I want to transplant objects from one to the other, and then from there, moving everything back into the proper case. But for now, things seem to be working, which is super-hot. I feel productive again, mostly because I have my playlist at my disposal. Okay, maybe it's just because I won't have to make a decision to go up to the computing lab. Still... it's nice being home on your home machine again. (And the @ separator is thirty-four years old today - so enjoy that part of your e-mail.)

So, since I've been gone for a while, I've got a lot to catch up on. Rosewood phones beckon (you'll need to scroll up to see) so that I can put in my call to the No-Spine Zone. Truth in advertising strikes again. A New Take on the idea of "Whole Foods" - using biodiesel to ship the products. Eeeeinteresting.

Of course, there's some other stuff, too - apparently the "ethical concerns" meme is starting to spread to other places - Target pharmacist denies woman emergency contraception. I still think that something about "do no harm" prevents this idea from happening. Then again, I might be one of those activist types. One of our best, however, went into hiding years ago. Hopefully he'll return in triumph. Otherwise, he'll be Floccinaucinihilipilificated.

Something else that's scary - United States patent law permits gene sequences to be patented. Gattaca, anyone? Also, for as wired as we are, or perhaps, more because we are wired, we're apparently not engaging in Deep Thought - and it's killing our IQ. Sufficiently that we're suing God. Nietzsche would probably throw it out on the grounds that the defendant was deceased. Although, by saying that, I might have exercised thinking again. Thinking might be bad for me. Then again, the marketing meme was just classified as a potential outbreak, so maybe thinking confers immunity.

Can be no crazier than the idea that non-voting is secession. Or perhaps some of the ideas that humanity has had about sex and sexual performance.

Parting shot for tonight - one more reason to hate Wal-Mart: The heiress cheats. It's also another reason for us to snigger at USC, but we'll forebear because there may be a couple of our university grads wanderig around with the same syndrome.

So that's it for me tonight. And now, hopefully, we'll be back to our regular schedule.

Yar.

So I looked at my stuff that's coming down the pipe. And I said, "Oh, SHIT." Well, that's not entirely true. I said a lot more than that, but most of it was repeating that particular phrase. For you see, not only do I have busywork assignments from here to god-freaking eternity (viz, end of semester.) I also now have all of my major projects coming due within a few WEEKS. (Well, okay, two months, really, but that's not enough time.) I guess I'm going to have to really get efficient now, and take my Fridays, Sundays, and Saturdays and spend them at my machine, in the library, or elsewhere. (Okay, it may not actually be that bad. That said, I don't like the prognosis on it looking any good, either.) Remind me again why I signed up for this? (Because you thought it was going to be fun. And because you have a Medieval Studies degree.)

Right about now, I feel like a squirrel on crack. In fact, I read through four or five articles on propaganda... and decided not to link any of them. Not because they weren't good, but because I don't feel like railing against it at the moment. Plus, it's probably a preaching-to-the-choir thing. Just more propaganda about propaganda. Like the columnist encouraging celebrities to be open about their sexual preferences. Much as we could use a society where people could be open about it, fundamentally it's their choice as to whether they want to come out and risk being piked for it.

I'm tired at the moment. I've been running full-tilt for seven weeks now. I have seven more weeks of running full-out, only to take perhaps two weeks off and do it again, hopefully ending up with landing an internship or some other prospect at the end of the summer. And then there's another year of cram and dash after that. And then comes the part where I get a job and that. Right now, I'm stir-crazy. I want about six months off to go wandering, spending ungodly amounts of money around just enjoying myself. I've managed to place myself in the situation, and now I'm going to have to stay the course. Good luck, and I hope I can manage it somehow. If, maybe, I take a deep breath now and let it out at the end...