School starts Tuesday. To introduce my feelings on this in a four-word foreword: looking forward to it. There isn't much to say after the foreword, except that the reason I am looking forward to it it that, finally, after 31 years, it will be my last undergraduate term (knock on Arborite).

Watched the entire The Office series ("Gareth, you're a knob-end") again, thanks to Ben-Gurion, who lent it to us. Kudos to the surprisingly acceptable American adaptation, which won the Emmy for best comedy, last week. Also watched The Royal Tenenbaums. It was fine, but, as far as Wes Anderson goes, I prefer Rushmore ("What are you wearing?" ... "These are my OR scrubs" ... "Oh are they?"). It's hard to watch movies after becoming accustomed to reading novels. Movies inevitably seem thin on character and plot development, since they have so much less time during which to develop things, compared to novels. Related: time to develop things is a main strength of multiple-season, continuous-story arc TV shows (Lost, season 3 starts soonish!). They end up being much longer than the average novel.

Played pool, "Hungry, Hungry Hippos," & "13 Deadend Drive," in that order, last night, with Shalina, Andrew, & Tonianne The Urban Planner. Even though I lost consistently, it was a moral victory, because I actually left the house (Yes, yes, I am cool).

Hotmail deleted all my messages due to inactivity, which is kind of OK, because it was my 3rd e-mail account, so it didn't have anything important (I tattoo the important messages to the backs of my eyelids). On the other hand, it's completely stupid that they won't spare the measly 25MB of space that the account takes, when gmail gives you 2.7+GB of storage space for free (that's more than 100x as much!). Balls. Undeniably balls. In other boycotting Microsoft news: Firefox 2.0 Beta is quite nice (plug!), imho. It has in-browser spell-checking (plug!), and the tabs (plug!) and drop-down search-engine selection work even (plug!) better (plug! plug! plug!). I still like Bill Gates, though, since he is the world's most philanthropiest philanthropist. I.e., he--well, The Bill & Billinda (Melinda?) Gates Foundation--gives more money to charity than anyone else, barn one.

P.S. This is my 100th post. 3 cheers for no life!