I feel unusually awake and alert today. In theory I should be taking advantage of that to get work done.

Last night was a good night. News got done at 2:30 (!). I was out of the office and in bed by 4:15. The paper wasn't quite done at that point, but I trusted Ryan to finish the Editorial on his own. For most of the last hour I was just checking blogs and Brunching.

And then I didn't have to wake up until 10 (so I could go interview Prof. Kerber for my anthropology project). I normally have an early class on Fridays, which means I only get a couple hours of sleep. But this week we had our first test. So I explained my sleep situation to Prof. Elgie, and he allowed me to move the test to Thursday so I could take it on more than 2 hours of sleep.

And then I got something like 3 hours of sleep Wednesday into Thursday. It just hit me at that point that I had more work than I knew what to do with. Either way, I don't think it really affected my test performance. The questions I didn't know were things that weren't in my notes, so being more rested and better studied wouldn't have helped.

This is all terribly unprofound. I'll just stop now.

Amanda has thrown off the shackles of GeoCities. Huzzah!

(I'll write a long post eventually. Really, I will.)

I would never have guessed there would be so many people searching Google for "debitage".

Marty says: "I am not the shiggity-shiznit. You guys are the shiggity-shiznit. I am but a vessel, an instrument for the shiggity-shiznit. I serve the shiggity-shiznit."

I don't know who put The Maroon-News on AynRand.org's mailing list. But they allowed us to get this gem in the latest commentary they sent us:

"Other civilians in enemy states are passive, unthinking followers. Their
work and economic production, however meager, supports their terrorist
governments and so they are in part responsible for the continued power of
our aggressors. They too are not innocent--and their deaths may be
unavoidable in order for America to defend itself. "

Osama bin Laden couldn't have said it better himself. He'd probably have said it in Arabic, though. Good thing we have the folks at AynRand.org to translate.

For Dave, something that I saw in the "recently updated blogs" list:
Your Mom

This week, University Church and Colgate Christian Fellowship are sponsoring a collection to raise money for the Red Cross. I have the honor of sitting at the Coop table from 11:20-1:10 today. So come by and give us money.

Arafat-Sharon Peace Talks Postponed
Because of course Yasser Arafat has complete control over every single Palestinian terrorist, and they'll stop if he asks nicely. Demanding absolute calm for 48 hours before talks begin is essentially giving veto power over the peace process to any hard-line anti-peace group (or individual). Now, while the whole world is rushing to assert their opposition to terrorism, is probably the best chance we'll have for the Palestinians and the Israelis to make an agreement and stick to it. But Sharon may blow his chance by ditching the talks on a technicality.

My parents' reaction to the Family Weekend field show:
Mom: "Why did you make a 'D' on the field?"
Me: "We did 'M, +, D,' for 'mom, and, dad.'"
Dad: "Oh, that was a D? I saw the M, but then I thought 'that O looks really crooked.'"