sigh

Up until almost 3am and didn't even get Loveline out of it.

Got a recruit on 3k, though, and an email fired off to someone from bostonsingles. No, I'm not cruising for dates. But I could use some more friends, and someone there looked interesting.

Also, I am almost completely cured of my cold. [And the crowd rejoiced: "Hooray!"]

I think the cats and I will go sleep for 5-6 hours now. Tomorrow holds shopping, laundry, and finishing my paper.

sigh

Up until almost 3am and didn't even get Loveline out of it.

Got a recruit on 3k, though, and an email fired off to someone from bostonsingles. No, I'm not cruising for dates. But I could use some more friends, and someone there looked interesting.

Also, I am almost completely cured of my cold. [And the crowd rejoiced: "Hooray!"]

I think the cats and I will go sleep for 5-6 hours now. Tomorrow holds shopping, laundry, and finishing my paper.

huckleberry milkshake

Sometimes I ask myself, "Do my adoring fans really care about what I did today?" Then I grin evilly, because I don't care if they/you do or not. I want to, and that's what matters. :)

Adriana lent me her car while she's out of town. I get to use it to drive to Providence on Wednesday, park it at the airport for the time I'm gone, and return it to her in Stamford (CT) when I return. That will leave me kind of stranded in the New York area for a few days with an unknown amount of money...

...but the point of mentioning this is that I was able to run errands today. I returned the favor of car use by spilling cat litter in the backseat. Clean cat litter, and only a small handful, but still. How appropriate.

I dropped off a few unsellable things at Goodwill today, and managed to score a $1 pair of jeans that fit me like a glove - if they fit me like a glove, that means they'd fit my hand and not my ass. They fit me like a good-fitting pair of jeans. I'm pleased.

I'm increasingly pleased with the local "alternative" radio station (101.7 FNX, for those in the area). There's a better chance of hearing good music there than any other station I've found in the Boston area. Well, aside from the classical station (for which I use 102.5). Anyway, I heard multiple Radiohead songs and some Dashboard Confessional that isn't from the new album on this station today. If they picked up Loveline for the evenings, I might just never turn it off.

The worst thing about Malden roads is the deep potholes in the middle of otherwise smooth road. If the roads were torn up, I'd understand it more. Instead they come out of nowhere.

Now it's time for dinner and paper-writing. Maybe even paper-finishing!

huckleberry milkshake

Sometimes I ask myself, "Do my adoring fans really care about what I did today?" Then I grin evilly, because I don't care if they/you do or not. I want to, and that's what matters. :)

Adriana lent me her car while she's out of town. I get to use it to drive to Providence on Wednesday, park it at the airport for the time I'm gone, and return it to her in Stamford (CT) when I return. That will leave me kind of stranded in the New York area for a few days with an unknown amount of money...

...but the point of mentioning this is that I was able to run errands today. I returned the favor of car use by spilling cat litter in the backseat. Clean cat litter, and only a small handful, but still. How appropriate.

I dropped off a few unsellable things at Goodwill today, and managed to score a $1 pair of jeans that fit me like a glove - if they fit me like a glove, that means they'd fit my hand and not my ass. They fit me like a good-fitting pair of jeans. I'm pleased.

I'm increasingly pleased with the local "alternative" radio station (101.7 FNX, for those in the area). There's a better chance of hearing good music there than any other station I've found in the Boston area. Well, aside from the classical station (for which I use 102.5). Anyway, I heard multiple Radiohead songs and some Dashboard Confessional that isn't from the new album on this station today. If they picked up Loveline for the evenings, I might just never turn it off.

The worst thing about Malden roads is the deep potholes in the middle of otherwise smooth road. If the roads were torn up, I'd understand it more. Instead they come out of nowhere.

Now it's time for dinner and paper-writing. Maybe even paper-finishing!

sometimes there's a place for stupid humor

(Guild 34) Corbin: sup, i just flew into my parents house for the holidays
(Guild 73) Haplo: oh god! Are you okay?!
(Guild 73) Haplo: what kind of plane were you flying?

Cue cymbal crash.

sometimes there's a place for stupid humor

(Guild 34) Corbin: sup, i just flew into my parents house for the holidays
(Guild 73) Haplo: oh god! Are you okay?!
(Guild 73) Haplo: what kind of plane were you flying?

Cue cymbal crash.

amusing book excerpts

From Jihad by Gilles Kepel:

On November 6, 1979, seventy Saudi Arabian women drove their cars into the center of Riyadh to protest the law forbidding the women to drive. One of the central points of their defense was that Aisha, "the wife of the Prophet," (as the book says, although Mohammud had multiple wives) had ridden her own camel.

Cute. Hooray for scriptural precedence.

amusing book excerpts

From Jihad by Gilles Kepel:

On November 6, 1979, seventy Saudi Arabian women drove their cars into the center of Riyadh to protest the law forbidding the women to drive. One of the central points of their defense was that Aisha, "the wife of the Prophet," (as the book says, although Mohammud had multiple wives) had ridden her own camel.

Cute. Hooray for scriptural precedence.

paper/book decisions

So. In about two hours, give or take a bit of time where I slacked off (such as posting that one thing about the camel), I have skimmed through a 376-page graduate-level textbook on radical Islam and pulled out the bits that were relevant to my paper (the status of women in the past 30 years). This book was more about the rise and fall of the Islamic movement as a whole and therefore had little to offer to my paper.

The next and final book I have to use is a 289-page, for-the-masses-level book that is only about Islamic women. I can't decide if skimming it for citations will be more or less time consuming than the last book. It will be easier to penetrate, but involve much more contemplation of relevance.

It's 10pm already, should I continue? Hmmm. We'll find out, after this short break.

paper/book decisions

So. In about two hours, give or take a bit of time where I slacked off (such as posting that one thing about the camel), I have skimmed through a 376-page graduate-level textbook on radical Islam and pulled out the bits that were relevant to my paper (the status of women in the past 30 years). This book was more about the rise and fall of the Islamic movement as a whole and therefore had little to offer to my paper.

The next and final book I have to use is a 289-page, for-the-masses-level book that is only about Islamic women. I can't decide if skimming it for citations will be more or less time consuming than the last book. It will be easier to penetrate, but involve much more contemplation of relevance.

It's 10pm already, should I continue? Hmmm. We'll find out, after this short break.