Heller Lounge, in MLK Student Union, stays open 24 hours every day. An informative leaflet tells me that it will continue to be open until 20 December. In addition, "No sleeping, sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, …

For the final final SANE [Students for a Nonreligious Ethos] event of the semester, we're going to be meeting at Mel's diner on Thursday night (Dec. 13) at 8:30 PM. Mel's is on the corner …

I took my final and now it's over. That was Political Psychology. My next final: Wednesday from 5 till 8 pm. Not only will it demand that I catch up on all my Russian history …

Off to my final. Oh, I should buy a bluebook first.

An academic paper I'm reading mentions Plato's proposed myth (as seen in Republic!) that different levels of quality in personalities originate in their different "metals". I've got bronze in me, you've got silver, let's call …

I just read an article evaluating different theories that explain the Los Angeles riots of 1992. The five theories include "A Black Protest," "Multiethnic Conflict," and "The Bladerunner Scenario." Politics in Modern Science Fiction and …

Wil Wheaton says that he just knows what he reads on Slashdot. This is like Cokie Roberts posting in The Fray on Slate.

My First Final is in fewer than twenty-four hours.

Aside from my computing difficulties, I should add, I'm feeling fine. My sister is no longer unhappy with me and my parents are sated. Today I study and watch the teevee. I've been listening to …

Expression of dismay and frustration. This morning, my computer developed an incomprehensibly sudden dysfunction in booting up and automatically starting X. Thus, I spent a bunch of time futzing around with X-related files (many props …