My room is back to normal. It took a good week or two, though, so I feel pretty good about myself.
I've not been getting a terribly large amount of sleep lately, so I would like to blame the complete incomprehensibility of my recent posts on that. Right now, it's... let's see... 3:30 a.m. and I am bleary with sleep and the strange feeling of having done actual work. That is, I have a presentation about the Cultural Revolution that was supposed to be on Monday but got moved up to Friday unexpectedly because Fortuna has crushed me under her cruel wheel. In preparation for that, I have just done, and I confess I am so unfamiliar with the concept as to be unsure about its actual meaning, but I believe it is called "work." I sat down to do a little research and ended up spending three hours writing a speech in indecipherable Japanese, which means that here I am typing this post when I would vastly rather be sleeping or, at this point, dead. Anyway, the total work for my presentation is at least half done at this point, so I guess it's worth it. If only the wallabies would stop eating my wallpaper, I would have no complaints.
I worked some magical changes on the guestbook, mostly predictably enough centered around pirates. I can't extend the maximum entry length in a given text box, so I just added another to the entry form. This is still not incredibly helpful, I know, but it's the best I can do.
I was reading an article in a Japanese paper the other day about this hard drive so small that... it's really small. I hear it can play cool games like The Legend of Soltar, but that is as yet unconfirmed. Anyway, it can hold something like 60 hours of music even though it's about the size of a quarter and it's pretty much the Absolute Zero of cool. But, because it was made by an American corporation and the reporter didn't want to make it seem like Japan could be beaten at anything, he included a completely irrelevant section at the end saying that while America is strong in certain hardware products, Japan is still the leader in home digital products and car navigation. Hail, Captain Non Sequitur! Free copies of Bill Bradley's collected works to the winner of Pin the Tail on the Irrelevant Ass.
- Gyaa! I'm give up
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