Hrm. Stuff and less sense.

Well, today was interesting. While I didn't do any work on the thing I thought I was going to do today, I still did do considerable work on all sorts of things, rendering most of them closer to being complete, if not done and dealt with. Tomorrow, perhaps, I will return to my originally schedule plan. Or maybe not. Perhaps, instead, I will attempt to free myself from time and stop worrying so much about due dates, while still accomplishing tasks.

The Repository of Lost Legends of Snopes. A section I have never gone to, before. Some very interesting contents inside, indeed.

Something else that's odd and true - Jennifer Aniston is a Man of the Year. Just shows that she was wearing the pants in her relationship.

There was something scary today - namely, thus. Hiya, Skipper! meets iClones.

The cool thing, however, is the idea of painting animated images on a subway wall. "The words of the prophets", indeed. But mostly fish on this particular test run. Another excellent use of DIY midscrewing. Its opposite I experienced Tuesday, while sitting in class. The gentleman to my right had a coffee cup, and on the paper wrapper that was designed to make the cup holdable while it held the bubbly brew was a coupon for five dollars off of an over-the-counter tooth-whitening solution. That's targeted marketing at its finest, wouldn't you say. Screwing with your head, trying to make you think about problems that you don't necessarily even have yet.

( Meme! I'm a Muse! )

Wow - I guess this whole "relax" thing actually works once in a while. I'm not feeling quite as stressed out as I normally am, and I'm taking time off to do gaming. For now, I guess, I feel like I can afford the time off. Which is good. Means I'm ahead and don't have to feel like I'm catching up on anything.

And one tiny thing - My emotional state seems a bit unstable at times. I left a comment on the housemate board today asking about whether or not someone could look at the lock on the door and see if there were problems with it and got an all-caps "Do it yourself for a change" response. I would be perfectly happy to do so, except that I don't know thing one about how or what I can do to fix the problem. I have an idea of what might help, but I can't figure out how to keep that doorknob from being loose, and I have no idea whether there's something impeding the locking mechanism that my key was tough to get into and tougher to pull out of. Could just be the lock is cold and the key wasn't, so there was some issues about breadth and depth of the key. Or maybe it's something else. I'll have someone in the family look into it on the weekend.

Anyway, the point was is that response tossed my emotional balance and possible good feelings about being finished with some papers utterly out the window. Went from fine to aggravated in the few seconds it took to read. After dinner, though, I got an e-mail that said that a previous e-mail I had received about needing to order transcripts was in error - naturally, being the good kid I was, I'd already ordered the transcripts anyway. This was good enough for a laugh and a head-shake from me, and my good mood returned. I don't know whether this is bad or good or something else entirely. I know that I'm often rather touchy about emotional things, and that ambient environments can influence my moods if I hang around them long enough. Am I just a powder keg with an ego the size of Manhattan, waiting for something that I can take as a personal affront and run with it? Is this the "poor me" syndrome? If it is, I want it out. I have no patience for emotional insecurities like that.

But anyway - more potential work to be done tomorrow, where I can get to a workstation that actually works with the proxy access rather than flaunting it in the face. And that will probably be most, if not all, of tomorrow's work, assuming I don't get ambitious and decide to put down a mark or three on some other papers (which would be nice...) Anyway. Time for bed.

And today closes out my academic week.

Tomorrow, however, I'll troop back in to do battle with the forces of reference. And not even the forces of David Hasselhoff can stop me! For I shall defeat him with the power of my titanium spork and collapsible chopsticks!

Leeeeroy Jennnnnnnkins! On Jeopardy! Why not? It's for the college tournament, so I think the question writers might be a bit more hip. Or maybe the regular question writers really are hip to it. Can't recall whether they did AYBABTU, though.

I'm not sure how widely publicized this link has been, but I somehow doubt he'd mind the publicity. Plus, he put the book up in the first place, soo... Scott Adams is offering God's Debris free. In PDF format. But for no charge, you can read the first of his thought experiments. I'll do that when I have a moment. Yes, I'm recommending a book solely on the strength of the author's ability to make us laugh about cubicle comics. Actually, I'm doing it because I wonder whether this will be a limited-time offer. Go get it while you still can.

You know the saying about how a picture is worth a thousand words - how about a three-minute video clip? With no dialogue at all? Make up your own story about it. Maybe they're all thinking about the sparrow that dropped 23,000 dominoes. Or perhaps they're all in linguistical conundrums over the proper use of the word literally. Of which, there is Literally, a web log to assist them in their deliberations.

Would that this picture were true. Although there would probably be more deaths due to grease in the heart than before. Still, it would be nice. And if you like, you can check out the rest of the stack, too.

Came up with what I thought was a funny statement when joking about my inability to get dating relationships off the ground. Showing off my inner geek, I said: "Is that my problem? I'm good enough at the friend level that nobody wants to upgrade? Should I start being more proprietary and less open-source?"

Well, I thought it was funny, anyway.