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Just drove like a maniac to get back to Pittsburgh from Fairfax, VA. Visited my dad there for the weekend and unpacked all of my books that had been lying in boxes for going on 5 months now. Also had an epiphany: "home" -- a concept which has been sadly uncertain the past few years -- seems to be the place that houses my books, which are the largest John-nostalgia containers around.

Time for a 30-minute essay writing session. This is quality work, folks; you can tell by the hastily misspelled words and information-in-a-list style of writing. PSMT had better appreciate me.

Bought the new Matchbox 20 cd, played mercilessly on repeat for four hours on the road. The first half is much better than the second half, but the whole CD is sadly a step down from their first.

Henry Miller kicks ass. From the first book in the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy:

"As for Kronski, the moment he laid eyes on her he dropped his leer and banter. Even more impressive was his silence. Usually, when I presented him to a female, he became garrulous and made a sort of fluttering noise with his invisible wings."

He makes me laugh.

Listened to Have You Seen Me Lately. Sam Kinison has to be the most distasteful comic ever. Homophobic, misogynistic, pro-drinking-and-driving, loud, arrogant, and generally nasty.

But he can be funny as hell.

"Jesus, God that's the sickest most disgusting joke I've ever seen on stage. Wrong! I can top it." (insert joke about leper whores) "Just when you think it can't get any worse ..." (insert joke about homosexual necrophiliacs) ... and so forth.

The summer has gone by so quickly! It's hard to believe tomorrow is my last day of work.

Speaking of work, LRDC was shut down today because of a water leak. That seems so odd -- that a building can be shut down just like a machine. I suppose it is just a people machine, swallowing them up and grouping them and storing them and then spitting them out at the end of the work day.

Well, we were spat out early today. So I came home and watched Dead Man Walking on DVD. The first time I watched this movie, I remember coming away with that dazed "wow that was a good movie" feeling and thinking that the death penalty was immoral. Maybe I was feeling cranky, but when I watched it today I just thought he got what was coming to him.

I've been reading Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Damn I wish I could write like that.

Pain is the ultimate karma-steroid. Want to jack your empathy for your fellow man? Fail out of school, get a divorce, lose your job. The most soulful people have been through the toughest shit.

It was such a beautiful day today. I got up early to go running -- we ran through South Side to Station Square and then through downtown. It was incredible: perfect sunny-yet-cool weather through deserted streets on a Sunday morning.

But damn I'll be sore tomorrow.

Today I rammed my head against gtk-doc. Three hours and one headache later sophomore internals are gtkdocified. Woo!

Sophomore is now over 6000 lines of code. And it still doesn't actually do anything. :) But the TODO before 0.1 hitlist is now down to 4 measly little items, maybe a few days hacking. Sophomore will be sooo cool one day. Everyone will use it and they'll hire me at HelixCode and girls will flock to me and I'll be rich and famous.

Time to take a break from hacking and go to Matt's party.

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