so there’s this smarmy lab assistant who’s running around bugging everyone who’s trying to work about IF GOOGLE CHARGED TEN DOLLARS A YEAR WOULD YOU PAY IT and when they say no are you crazy he starts laughing. i mean, i’m assuming it’s laughing. i’ve never heard sounds like this come out of a human before but there’s a touch of desperate hilarity behind the indescribable horror so i’m making an approximation. THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICANS!!! NOT EVEN FIVE DOLLARS?!? no, you nutbag. if google charged a subscription fee, i’d start using teoma. i mean, more than i do already. can you imagine logging in every time you want to google for something? or not being able to send someone a list of google results because OH SHIT I DIDN’T RENEW MY GOOGLE SUBSCRIPTION!!! also, this kind of thing only works for something with an existing reputation. you’re not going to pay a fucking subscription fee for a search engine you’ve never used before, so they wouldn’t get any new users. voluntary donations? sure, look at pa. an entire year on reader donations; the shift back to advertising has been a relatively recent one. and speaking of advertising, google has already figured out the best way to capitalize on its popularity - text ads.

it’s dark out and windy and feels like it’s about to rain. gorgeous. i finally solved problem of moronchatter in the nyu computer labs by downloading some rasputina (what are you talking about, i would never download rasputina onto school machines). oh melora, you make everything better.

had india lecture this morning. we got our papers back, the ones we wrote way back before break. incredibly, i managed to score an a despite it being written almost entirely the sunday morning before it was due. however, the one we have next is research based and thus not at all easy to bullshit. such is life.

i’d sort of like to go to massachusetts this weekend and visit the family for easter and whatnot; my grandfather’s in the hospital again and i haven’t seen them all since christmas. but i’ve got three papers and another einstein exam in the next three weeks and i’m not sure i can swing it if i spend an entire weekend travelling. we’ll see.

i forgot to mention, ordering is over for this run of the shirts. if you didn’t get one, keep an eye out - i may do a second run, perhaps of a different design. to everyone who did order: i love you so much. i’ll keep you updated on when they’ll actually be shipped; as of now i myself have no idea.

i think now it is time to go curl up with some chai and SPACE FOOD (okay so it’s really still just a luna bar) in one of the lounges and do absolutely nothing until my next lecture.

so i’m sitting in the lecture hall for my nine thirty waiting for the professor to show up. our midterm paper was due this morning, so we’re all explaining to each other exactly why this is the worst paper we’ve ever written and how we’re so totally going to fail. eventually, we start to notice that it’s like nine forty five and the professor isn’t there yet; a few minutes later someone comes in to tell us the class is cancelled because dr reilly has the flu, so we can just hand in our papers wednesday. fantastic. this means i have another two days to do that last draft i never got around to yesterday. it would have been nice to know beforehand so i could have slept in this morning, but as i’ve got a couple free hours before my next lecture and plenty of time to work on this paper some more, i’m not complaining.

didn’t sleep very well; i wasn’t tired at all but i tried to go to bed anyway because i had to get up really early this morning for my first lecture. but i don’t feel too crappy so that’s okay.

off to class now, but i just wanted to note that today’s the last day to buy shirts.

<jon> come on sarah, the keg is already tapped
<Jimmie> JESUS IS STALKING UCLA WOMEN
<Jimmie> AND HE HAS HIS HANDS OUT IN A SUGGESTIVE GRABBING MANNER
<emma> the dentist one is great
<emma> but the student one is so much more molesty
<jon> indeed
<jon> and i mean
<jon> look at his position and facial expression
<jon> its like he’s selling her acid
<jon> you’re gonna fly, baby
<jon> FLY in the motherfucking SKY
<jon> WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

i think it’s going to be kind of a lazy day. i’ve got a little more reading to do for this week and some work to do on various design odds and ends, but other than that i intend to revel in the glory of it being sunday and me being in a really good mood. i might redye my hair, it’s getting a little faded.

today was pretty great, i have to say. i did some work this morning but since then i’ve been entirely, deliciously unproductive. today is what my spring break should have been like (not that i didn’t have fun over spring break). lots of chai, lots of getting dressed really late, lots of catching up with people i haven’t talked to in a while. and movies. mmm.

it’s been a week for people from my past. i’ve started running into my friend devin from high school all the time; he’s transferred to nyu now. (that makes a total of four people from my graduating class who are at nyu, plus at least two others who live in new york.) then i got email from justin, who didn’t actually go to my high school but who was one of my best friends in massachusetts. and then i got email from someone who knows one of my friends from freshman year at nyu. it’s all put me in sort of a weird nostalgic mood, but not in an unpleasant way. i think i am going to go visit my parents for a little when i’m done with classes, although i also want to go visit scott. but that is, after all, what summer is for.

i added a new page to the cams; there’s a couple of slots left. if you’d like one of them, mail me.