Yes, I Think I Shall Post Today

yes, i've been so very unfaithful. apologies to all our regular readers, including my own dear sister, shysterb. dry your eyes and halt the funeral proceedings because i most certainly have *not* encountered an untimely end. nay, i have taken only a brief vacation. i shall soon return to my acid rants and pathetic hand-wringing. i will continue to practice my characteristic unfairness towards bush voters, including but not limited to, blaming them for every murdered iraqi innocent and every pointless american military death. because, i'm just a bitch that way.

school has started, in case you didn't know. yes, _that_ business is again afoot. the cs department has dwindled. those remaining are the battle-hardened, experienced few. now that the degree doesn't promise easy riches and fistfuls of stock options, the fair weather programmers have fled to greener pastures. wimps.

unfortunately, this latest development has resulted in the untimely cancelling of two my classes -- Real Time Systems and Networking. i nearly cried. not only had i already purchased used books via amazon resellers, i did not have any other options in the cs department owning to my pathetic lack of education in mathematics. so, i was forced to drop to half time status and swap one math class out for another, resulting in the payment of over a hundred dollars for the textbook for the new math class. end result: purchased books for three classes that i ended up not taking after all.

i began volunteering with a community organization based in roxbury. the group is a bit more ideological than i am. it is quite the lefty organization -- a white guy with dreads answers the phone between declarations that "The government wants us to be divided!" and that "A system based on profit must fail!" they obtain medical services, emergency heating assistance, and affordable housing for their members. their hearts are in the right place even if the sweeping political generalizations make me wince from time to time. because, well... i'm *never* guilty of such generalizations. ever. i'm always fair and balanced. really.