it's monday and i am, in fact, not in a cabin at mount baker as i should be. however, i also am not at school as i (secondarily) should be. i've decided that my careful planning of my work appearances within the past week and through the weekend have earned me a day off 'marking' at home. i do have shitloads to do, though -- a final report for my journal being one of them. it's turning into this massive monstrosity that i can't even begin to organize properly.

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last night was awesome. this and next years' editors came out to a sushi/korean barbecue restaurant where we (dmac, JW and PC, mostly) ate a gratuitous amount of flame-seared marinated meat. you could actually hear the famished whimpers of children in guatemala.

it's actually pretty remarkable that this place trusts their customers to cook their own meat without getting horribly ill and whipping out the litigation gun. we headed over to granville island for a pint -- or five, depending on the person -- where PK confirmed my fears that he would likely get the paper sued next year by describing with pride how he defied security requests NOT to follow the dalai lama following his talk in vancouver last week, and with such lines as 'canadians have this thing against eating cats and drunk driving. well, i eat cats and i drive drunk.'

oh, PK. so offensive.

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AL sent me this link regarding stupidity and stupid people today.

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my sweetie just came back from futureshop with our new keyboard. the prospect of having a functional control key is extremely exciting.