Read an article in the Huffington Post about the possibly scary importance of obama's 'organizing for America' group. The gist - because he and his supporters have direct email access to the whole huge mess of people who contacted him during the fall election, they have some sort of creepy power ( Read more... )

Today has been full of work so far - not schoolwork, that will wait for the evening/ late at night, but housework. Lawn has been mowed. Yay. On a more interesting note, the basement walls have finally gotten their second coat of paint - it isn't perfect, because, after all, I do hate painting with a bitter and undying passion, and can only work ( Read more... )

Is it possible to have romantic feelings for a type of paint? If so, then I think that I may be in love with epoxy-based basement paint. The old floor tiles that were lurking under my disgusting water-damaged carpet were not damaged, per se, but they were ugly, and had remnants of an old paint on them, as well as some odd stains and disgusting ( Read more... )

I saw this story on the BBC today - haven't done all the research, so I'm taking some things at face value, but it looks like they've done some of the things that I want a nation to do in managing economic policy - mostly limiting the power of the financial sector, limiting risk, and building a surplus during good years. I need to read more, but I ( Read more... )

I'm deeply concerned by the obama administration's approach to energy. Leaving aside the fact that its been slow to do anything, I'm deeply, deeply dubious about the utility of cap and trade. It adds an extra level of complexity to an already very messy system of energy pricing and markets, and it is not clear to me that it will produce ( Read more... )

Today was supposed to be a day all about giving a final exam. Instead, it ended up being a day of zany adventure. My class was interrupted by a tornado warning. I'm not sure why the university felt it would be better for my class to shelter on the bottom of a concrete buildig than on the 13th floor of said building. I mean, if the building ( Read more... )

I just fulfilled a very minor ambition, by having a male protagonist in a story use the phrase "well, and a boyfriend, too - but it was college, and I was in an experimental phase".

On balance, I need better ambitions.

As I've mentioned, I'll be at war this summer - it'll be great to see a bunch of you with whom I currently have only sporadic contact. I don't plan on doing even a bit of fighting. It'll be socialization, classes, dancing, drumming, shopping, and parties for me ( Read more... )

This will be a bit speculative - please bear with me ( Read more... )

Done with grades for today, done with online class stuff. Next week is Stalin and Khrushchev in my RL class, and I'm almost ready with my materials for that, too. I'm keeping up! Go me ( Read more... )