It is dismal and grey outside, suitable for election results.

[quislibet]

It's like they took my ballot and decided to go with the opposite, at least on the things I was most concerned about: the governor, bilingual education, and clean elections.

How vexing.

Good "Buffy" last night, at least, especially the second half.

Not sure what is most useful to do today. Advisor still has my prospectus draft; I *could* try to whittle down the wordy sections but I'd prefer to wait until I get his input. There's stuff I could be reading, I guess.

J. is home with a bad cold today and is a TV zombie at the moment, so the trick for me will be to avoid being sucked into mindless daytime television.

I'm wicked bummed I forgot about yesterday's Rasputina show until it was too late to make the necessary arrangements. (Also feeling impoverished.)


Celtic band name of the day, from a Celtic Beat update message:
Scantily Plaid

Ridiculous sentiment-from-a-weight-loss-commercial of the day:
With this diet program I can lose weight and still eat pasta with fresh sauce!
...'cause those fresh sauces, damn.

Spam subject heading of the day (spelling mistake theirs):
Unstopable sluts on A MISSION FOR CUM


Incidentally, yesterday I got a 419 scam e-mail in French, so that's something exciting and different.

Update a few minutes later: I forgot to mention that last night we were watching the news (on WB, I think, after seeing "Smallville" for the first time) and after a quick interview with Independent Party gubernatorial candidate Barbara Johnson there was loud guffawing heard off-camera in the newsroom.

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[spriggan.livejournal.com]

there was loud guffawing heard off-camera in the newsroom.

we couldn't hear it over our own guffawing.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

I really don't know much one way or another, but (1) I was, perhaps unreasonably, vexed that it was being sponsored by some conservative millionaire in another state who might not have been so well informed about the state of education on THIS coast; (2) I didn't like the "sue teachers" part; and (3) was sure that the average person voting for it was voting for "English is good enough for ME" reasons rather than any knowledge of the issue (which, admittedly, the average person doesn't have, so perhaps that's another reason why making it a ballot question was annoying).

Anyway. I hear from other people who DO know something about it that immersion might well be better. But the question was, did I support THAT law: and I didn't.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Dedication to their art, keeping their eyes on the prize, and ignorance.