YAY

Gabby visits for a week! Things happy and good.

She leaves tomorrow though :( Sad Ness.

On the whole a good week other than health issues.

Other than that, no updates.

Update On Cat

Three hours of searching today, with no luck. She seems to be mine now. I'm going to put up a few posters in the local groceries, and we are going to see if she has a chip when we take her to the vet next week.

But, tentatively, welcome to the family Yoruichi.

Found

....
Found, one very cute, very hungry ball of gray fluff, alone in the dark of the night bawling for someone, anyone, to come find her.
Tomorrow I am going door to door looking for whomever owns her. Shes obviously someone's, and for all I know they may have already given her up for dead.
If I can't find her home... Looks like I have a cat. Another one.

Quick academic update

Quick update for those interested.

Another fantastic semester here at State for my GPA. Now a 3.68 cumulative, with a semester 3.8.

Permit me this moment of unprofessional pride: SCREW YOU WHO SAID I COULDN'T CUT IT.

Teaching this summer, hoping to do as good of a job as I did this time around.

Weird Spam

Sometimes, my spam is just blogworthy.

from Bobbie Stafford Angela@gmail.com
to Hudson strixus@gmail.com
subject Elvis
Anne,
147306
Roscoe

From Luisa Phelps Quintin.Park@gmail.com
reply-to Gene Luna Quintin.Park@gmail.com
to Ramona strixus@gmail.com
subject Leonardo
Jesus,
43035045
Jasmine

WHAT THE HELL? Ever get the feeling you've been side swiped by a spy?

Toyko in Ruins

Motoda Hisaharu offers us a glimpse into the distant (or none too distant) future with images of familiar Tokyo landmarks in ruins.

Now for a night where my dreams didnt look like this....

VNV Nation - Judgement

BTW, if you have NOT checked out the new VNV Nation album, you need to. The first half of the album is quite possibly VNV Nation at its finest, damned near rivaling Praise the Fallen and Futureperfect for their best work yet.

Here is a quick taste

Those who shout loudest impose their will
Upholding laws that serve a few
Declaring peace while the sirens sing
In the name of progress,
In the name of madness
Drum beats faster
Crowd shouts louder
and chaos replaces order

I want justice for a voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because judgment day's not coming Judgement day's not coming
soon enough

Because judgment day's not coming
Soon enough

--- Nemesis

Procrastinating, pretending to worry
Solving problems by pushing them aside
Wasting time like we've all the time in the world

Deliberation instead of solution, another term for blatant lies
Biding time like we've all the time in the world

--- Testament

And the one that really gets me....

These faithful in lines that number thousands
bring perdition throughout the land
As though the angel of deah himself had been unleashed
to exact a punishment upon this world

Across this cursed place rage the fires
Where the innocent are burned on a thousand funeral pyres
In anguish parted from this world

Does the need for the belief in the Devil
Serve to palliate and forgive our sins
In the abandonment of reason and delivery unto Hell

--- Descent

I feel an urge to go light a torch and climb a tower with a gun. If I yell loud enough, how many people will hear me?

None.

What would it take?

Some days, I entertain random thoughts in my head about rebellion and revolution in this country. And I wonder... what would it take for some significant portion of this population to rebel against the political structure?

Would the military ever become so dissatisfied with the leadership as to forcefully oust an entire branch of our government?

Would a corporation or collective group of corporations use their collective leverages to remove political system?

Could a group of individuals who are sufficiently organized overthrow the government of a state? Two states? A region? The entire country? Just the federal system?

The problem with a country as large as ours is that government is entirely decentralized. Yes, the federal system has a very centralized nervous system, but would taking it out be enough to take out the entire system and maintain a unity of all the states at the same time?

Would it not be a better goal to attempt localized rebellions such that states or groups of states declared independence?

Oh wait... we tried that once. And no one remembers that it was originally about states rights and the unity of the Union, rather than slavery.

History is written by the winners - no one remembers why it started. They just remember what it was made to be about after the fact.

Folks are going to kill me....

BWAHAHAHAHAH....

I'm teaching this summer!!