I have been so tired lately. Each night, I try to go to bed earlier and earlier, but I still wake up exhausted. I dreamt a lot about skiing last night. My mind must know that ski season is almost upon us. Strange to get so excited so far ahead of time about something I only get to do 5 or 6 days a year (if I'm lucky).

I have no class tonight. That makes it an awesome Tuesday. Unfortunately, I have another exam on Thursday, so I'm going to try to get some studying in tonight. We'll see if a ritual procrastinator like myself can manage to work that far ahead of time.

We had takeout Mely's for dinner. Maybe they put some sort of chemical in the salsa that makes me crave it regularly.

We also watched last week's Apprentice -- man, this show drags out the worst in women. Its frustrating watching the women just sink their teeth into each other like that with the complete inability to work together. This is an unfortunate trait I've sometimes observed in even the most intelligent women (more often in college than now, where the women I work with all have bonded and become friends) - they enjoy working with the men, but become catty, possessive, backstabbing and jealous when forced to include other women. When the men have to fire someone, they just shake hands, say that's the way its going to be, and head into the board room. The women conive, talk behind each other's back, use gossip against their "enemies", and make the whole thing personal. Last year's Apprentice did the same, but it didn't happen until a bit further in the season, since the girls didn't start going after each other until they started losing. Cari declared last night that the show was making her embarrassed to be a professional woman.

On the subject of another woman - I finally finished Reading Lolita in Tehran. It was a beautiful book. I know it took two weeks, which is way longer than it usually takes me. I admit, I did read about 3 books in between the start and finish. But each sentence in the book was so perfect, I felt like I had to savor it. Ok, so go out, buy it, read it. Also, read Sex Lives of Cannibals, it was HILLARIOUS.

If you like random (and annoying) computer animation, check these out:

Magical Trevor

Badger badger badger (Ok, this is really stupid, but after Carter did his impression of the song while we were hiking at Longs Peak, it cracks me up every time).

English football badger

And a joke.


Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip, set up their tent, and fall asleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes his faithful friend.



"Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see."



Watson replies, "I see millions of stars."



"What does that tell you?"



Watson ponders for a minute. "Astronomically speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Timewise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, it's evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?"



Holmes is silent for a moment, then speaks. "Watson, you idiot, someone has stolen our tent."