I’ve made it through three of my four exams and waited in yet more lines for my cap and gown (and free champagne), so I get to sleep normally for at least a night or two before things finish up on Monday. Then maybe I’ll go back to writing contentful posts, or at least pretending to.

File under things that seem way funnier than they really are when your ratio of studying time to sleeping time has been out of whack for several consecutive days:

Student A: So Singer’s saying ‘Look, it’s not a morally acceptable situation if some people are suffering and dying while others are luxuriating in their riches.’

Student B: Yeah, well, I’ll luxuriate in your riches if you’re not careful.

Today was like going to Disneyworld in that all I did was wait in several different lines and get tickets to things. Only instead of being tickets to Disneyworldish things, they’re tickets to graduationish things. Since the College of Arts and Science Baccalaureate has been moved to the arena at Madison Square Garden, each senior now gets a whopping six guest tickets instead of just three. But really, I can’t think of six people who would want to sit through it, so I’m only bringing three or four. That’s a week from tomorrow.

Then Wednesday night is Grad Alley, which sounds like a Big Fun Day held at night. With fireworks. But I like fireworks, so I’m not complaining. The following day is Commencement itself, which is held in the park, which should be nice now that they’ve finished the restoration of the arch that’s been going on for years. Then I turn in my cap and gown before the cap and gown rental mobsters hunt me down and break my legs, and then I’m finally no longer a college kid.

But between now and then I’ve got four finals and a fifth that I’m proctoring, so at least they’re keeping me busy.

I was reading this list of complaints about the iTunes update, and while I don’t really have an opinion on any of the new features (and I wonder if getting that upset about Party Shuffle is a good sign), there’s something even more puzzling. I don’t understand the zero gap thing at all. It’s not that I disagree, it’s that I think I’m missing what the problem is supposed to be. I’ve got a handful of albums I ripped (with iTunes) that have tracks without gaps between them, and they were ripped that way - as separate tracks without any silence at the beginning or end. There isn’t a gap artifically included in the mp3 itself, and iTunes doesn’t insert one when you’re playing unless you tell it to (I just tried it). And if you’re burning a CD, you can specify how long the gap should be or whether there should be one at all. So what’s the problem? It did, in fact, just work. If you do have something that you might want ripped as one long track - like, say, a recording of somebody’s mixed set - why shouldn’t you have the option of doing so?