Greg sucks. I just found out that there's going to be a peace rally tomorrow outside of City Hall here to protest the war, and as he is my Friend with a Conscience(tm), I thought he'd like to go, but nooo, he's gone home with his girlfriend. Ah well. I will have to go be socially aware and politically active by myself.

Moments after writing that, Benjamin wandered his way up the stairs to my attic garret, and apparently he is game for attending gatherings that seek 'peas'.

Man, today has been a crummy day. It's nice and beautiful outside, but over the course of today, the Mathman was left by his lady friend, good friends of Mike's appear to have broken up, and Steph's in/at the hospital because half of her face is paralyzed. This sucks. I kind of saw the Mathman thing coming (when your significant other doesn't want to introduce you to her parents, or admit to other people that you're dating, that is not a good sign. Danger, Will Robinson!) but didn't know if I should say anything and ultimately opted to stand by and wait. Unfortunately this ended up with Mathman having his heart broken and the lady friend being all "Well, we're broken up and everything, but I still love you and I want you to keep calling me almost every night." I just don't get some people. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too; leaning on your ex for emotional support but denying your support to him, especially when you know he's in love with you is just bullshit. It really is.

Yeah. Other than that, I've been totally slacking on getting stuff done with regards to my impending essays (history, sociology, 18th century lit and Canadian lit). I know I'll be okay in the end but there's still something appalling about my own ineptitude.

Work has been pretty busy as of late. I've been doing a lot of putting together acceptance packages for the people who've applied, and I feel like I've done a gazillion of them. I can't imagine what it would be like to work in the Registrar's Office at another university, like Queen's or York (two of the other schools I applied to back in the day). Some of the other schools get more acceptances in a regular year than we've gotten in this year with the double cohort.

I've been watching a lot (read: TOO MUCH) CNN lately and it's starting to wear on me. I hate the stupid ticker thing at the bottom, as it is fraught with spelling and grammatical mistakes and also because I FEEL COMPELLED TO WATCH IT as opposed to the other stuff. I'm also totally freaked out by their 'front line coverage' where they have the journalists with the soldiers, video-taping as they fight. First of all, if I was a soldier, I'd be pretty effing resentful of journalists tagging along and getting in the way as I try to stay alive while killing others, etc. Second of all, if I was a journalist, and CNN was all "hey, you're going to be on the front lines of the "non-war" in Iraq", I'd be all "yeah, about that...I'm not going to put myself in that kind of danger so you can get a story". Thirdly, as a telvision consumer, I don't want to watch the war in that way. I don't like watching the bombing going on in Baghdad or else where, and I don't want to watch American or British or other Coalition soldiers kill or be killed. Is this unrealistic? Is this too much to ask? Are there any lines that should not be crossed? Why can't this be one of them?

My nose keeps threatening to bleed. Somehow I don't think this is a good thing.

Mmm, vegetable stir-fry for supper!

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