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Memo
February 19, 2002
To: Ms. Mirabai Knight
From: Raife Neuman, Registrar's Office
I am pleased to inform you that your senior essay committee has read your essay and found it to be satisfactory.
The schedule listing orals scheduled for before spring break and the first week after break will be posted shortly. The oral examination schedule for the rest of the semester will be available when you return for spring break.
Congratulations!
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09:31:48 PM,Tuesday 19 February 2002
Both of the "direct hits" it gave me are bogus. I am reasonably willing to say that the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist because there's no direct evidence for it and no compelling reason why I should want him to exist. It really just doesn't matter that much. If it were proved that he did exist, well, I'd chalk my former skepticism-verging-on-outright-disbelief to an honest mistake. It's a different situation with God... it matters very much to me whether he exists or not, and though I can honestly say I don't have any evidence either for or against right now, and so am in superfically the same position with him as I was with the Loch Ness Monster, I think it's true both that the situation is too important for me to give it even a cursory "disbelief", and that God might be something apprehensible by means other than direct evidence, though I don't know why the Loch Ness Monster possibly would be.
The other one was the bit about the serial killer and rapist. He was a madman. His inner convictions, just like his reason, are suspect; that doesn't mean that inner convictions are invalid any more than reason is invalid. We never have certain proof that we're in our right mind, but I'd certainly say that the inner convictions of a sane, rational (possibly moral, though that might be a more complicated argument) person are, even if they're not verifiably true, important to listen to, and might possibly have more in them than ordinary whims and prejudices. The inner convictions of a madman can, up to a point, be disregarded, or at least taken as obscured and distorted; they must be at least partly products of his madness.
So fooey on them. (it was fun to take, though.)
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08:18:01 PM,Tuesday 19 February 2002
Remind me to write a story sometime starring Al Finch and Dan Vino. If you get that pun, you're sad.
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02:36:17 AM,Tuesday 19 February 2002
It's things like this that nearly make me see the Vegetarians' point. Oh well. Time for dinner.
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08:38:26 PM,Monday 18 February 2002
My mom made me promise not to cut my hair 'til after spring break. In return, she bought me a suit. GRAARARARARARAR!
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08:17:52 PM,Monday 18 February 2002
I've uploaded my puny attempt at a comic. It's at http://briefcase.yahoo.com/cnidarae . That is all.
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05:44:05 PM,Monday 18 February 2002
Look out, Sir Isaac. Someone's moseying in on your territory...
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02:53:42 PM,Monday 18 February 2002
They have this big-ass like two-gallon jug of Balsamic Vinegar in the school kitchen. Where'd I hide my camo-paint and grappling hooks?
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02:51:17 PM,Monday 18 February 2002
T.I.A.I.L.W.:Frederica von Stade. Oops, sorry, that's a llama. The other Frederica von Stade. In pants. Ooooooooooooooh, baby.
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11:02:40 AM,Monday 18 February 2002
I can't remember if I have a 9 o'clock class today or not. I don't think I do. But I have 15 minutes to figure it out, huh?
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10:43:29 AM,Monday 18 February 2002
{ding}
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02:00:14 PM,Sunday 17 February 2002
I mean, I could conceivably draw twenty-one pages in fifteen minutes, couldn't I? Should I give it a go?
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01:38:02 PM,Sunday 17 February 2002
T.I.A.I.L.W.:St. Monica, (Y'know. Augustine's mother. You cried when she died, remember?) Patron Saint of Sleep.
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01:06:52 PM,Sunday 17 February 2002
Still Can't sleep.
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12:36:39 PM,Sunday 17 February 2002
Well, I never was able to get past my third page. I stayed up and typed an old manuscript instead. I like the three pages I have, even though they're bizarre and meaningless. I'll scan 'em and give 'em ya. Now, though, I figure I'll try to get to sleep. What's the point of staying up four more hours? Eh. It was a noble try. And, seriously, I wanna try it again. Maybe the stars weren't right or something. I know I got one of these things in me. I could definitely stay up four more hours if there was any chance of finishing the bastid, but... I dunno. What can I say? Next time. It's been nice just staying in this room for so long anyway, though, without the agony of Essay-writing. Kinda meditative. Y'know. So, that's that. Seey'all in the late afternoon.
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10:13:30 AM,Sunday 17 February 2002
Higgledy Piggledy
Tullius Cicero
Isn't in store for this promising beau.
Still and all, certes, his
Neurobiology's
too sharp for me: 9 June,
Twenty-oh-oh.
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06:02:46 AM,Sunday 17 February 2002
Mirabai rules. This isn't Mirabai saying so, of course, because that would be Egotism, and therefore bad. No, this is Martin, who had a mad bloggage craving, which was kindly satiated by the lovely Miss Knight. Since this will be my last blog till Monday, I'm gonna make it count, gosh darnit. Now I'm going to use this entry to raise as many provocative questions as I possibly can.
1. First off, an interesting quote on the earthen mounds of Cahokia, Illinois from the Atlantic Monthly. "To Brackenridge, it seemed clear that Cahokia and the many other ruins of the Midwest had been constructed by Indians. It was not so clear to everyone else. Nineteenth-century writers attributed them to, among others, the Vikings, the Chinese, the "Hindoos," the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, lost tribes of Israelites, and even straying bands of Welsh." The amazing thing about this to me is that nineteenth-century writers considered the Welsh more advanced than Indians. Discuss.
2. TiVo knows what you're watching. Every day it sends back two logs. One contains diagnostic information (including information on remote control usage) and the other says exactly what you're watching. The latter is allegedly anonymous, the former isn't. So here's my question: suppose a murder suspect's alibi was that he was watching TV at home. Now, if he had a TiVo, some clever little prosecutor could subpoena the diagnostic log and prove that he wasn't using his remote control at the time. Discuss.
3. Futurama is being cancelled. Discuss and cry.
4. My friend Jake is a bum, and I am bored and all alone in Harford County, Maryland. Discuss and pity.
5. I'm getting a $750 tax refund, which will help pay for my trip to Eastern Europe this summer. Discuss and applaud.
6. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was clearly too long, as this proves. Discuss.
If no one discusses anything, I'll cry. So get discussing. And thanks again, Mirabai. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
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08:26:59 PM,Saturday 16 February 2002
There's a muppet called Placido Flamingo. This makes me ineffably happy.
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06:06:02 PM,Saturday 16 February 2002
ding!
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02:04:28 PM,Saturday 16 February 2002
