I'm thinking of thinking of...

...well. No more Sluggy for me, then.

I think the last few days have been a net positive, all things considered. There are a few things I can't (or won't, or shouldn't) talk about, but one that I can: yesterday I received the letter from Earlham confirming my readmission, so assuming I can put the money together (and I see little reason why I shouldn't be able to), I'll be back in school starting in September next year, and with any luck (and a lot of dedication), I'll graduate in May 2007.

On the other hand, I found out yesterday that a bunch of library books I thought had been renewed hadn't been, so instead of being due next week they were due two weeks ago... so I get to make an emergency run to the library after work today. Ugh.

Zeitgeist: Angst

[Poll #385556]

I'm keeping the answers private for various reasons, although I reserve the right to post various answers here (without attaching them to names) at some future date.

Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies

...no, really.

(Link from the SJ Games forums.)

Random snippet...

...thanks to fadethecat, although I'm not sure she wants the credit for inspiring this one.

Sutamh crossed the Pacific on his raft Ikit-Nok, with two weeks' supply of coconuts, a fishing pole and line, and a sail that doubled as a blanket. He had three coconuts left when Ikit-Nok brushed the white sands of South America. Sharks had eaten his sail mere days before. The fishing pole was still intact, however, as were a remarkably large number of tiny sculptures of the Serpent Buddha, several bodhisattvas, and various moai, which Sutamh had made out of fish bone. They were fragile but beautiful, and Sutamh wished for a moment that he were back in Hyderabad so that he could sell them and become a rich man. To drive those sinful thoughts from his mind, he beat his head against a tree for ten minutes before he realized that the fact that he had a tree against which to beat his head meant that he had made land, and he wept in joy and knelt and kissed the ground, and then immediately went back to the ocean to wash the sand from his face.