Sunday, August 25, 2002

I'm covered in dust - cleaning and packing, cleaning and packing... I move out Saturday and needed to get as much packed this weekend as possible. I think managed about as much as I could...there are now twelve packing boxes sitting in my living room. Three of them hold my videos, CDs, and DVDs. The other 9? Nearly all of my books. Damn, I own a lot of books. I've emptied the six bookshelves, and cleaned out the piles of books in my room... when I unpack, I need to count them - I'm convinced that I've got near 2000 books. That is a LOT of books. Now for a shower and sleep...

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But you can keep lots of ideas in your head, and think about them for hours, days, weeks, months, years or decades; and even repeat them and expand on them, and (rarely) change your mind about something. Even great writers like Hemingway repeated themes. People who blog do this even more. It helps fill the space. Every event is an opportunity to "prove" ones' pet theories. I do this a lot. It's okay because everyone else does it too. [Scripting News] I may just be making a bucketful of assupmtions, but the end of that paragraph feels like a mea culpa - Dave at least admitting that he goes a little overboard in his "blogs will rule the world!" enthusiasm. And he's right - everyone else does do it. I just have about fifty thousand theories that I harp on... the only one that seems to make a regular appearance in this blog is my firm and unwavering belief that the Bush Junta are completely insane.

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For first time, MIT assigns freshmen to campus dorms. Boston Globe Aug 25 2002 4:54AM ET [Moreover - Boston news] Until now, MIT freshmen had to find a place to live when they got there. The school suggested to the students that they just bring a suitcase to freshman orientation, and get the rest of their stuff shipped. Ouch - that must have been a living hell. They're changing this due to that freshman who binge-drank and died a few years back, and the fact that in the last five years, MIT has had six successful student suicides. They're finally realizing that they can be a great, great, great school with ultra-competitive classes without destroying their students. Good idea. I should ask my dad (MIT alum) how stressful it was to have to choose housing under pressure...

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