It's crunch time. You can tell because I haven't tidied my room in a week or two, and now it really is difficult to see the floor.

I'm looking forward to having some semblance of self-determination again. My mind feels like it's being consumed.

Women's studies readings tonight- got caught up through last week, which is an accomplishment. Sadly, all of the readings were about women being raped, Indian wives whose husbands killed them because their dowries weren't big enough, women on welfare who get shat on all the time... bah. Depressing.

I'm reading Gulliver's Travels for an English class, and in the third book he travels to Laputa, the castle in the sky. Yes, that's a title for the Miyazaki movie, he kind of stole it, and it wouldn't be the first time. I suppose alluding to other texts is cool. Anyhow, according to the glosses in my text, the name "laputa" comes from teh Spanish "La puta". I'll let you whiz kids translate that one for yourselves.

Chilled with Jackie, Louise, and Kristen this morning, that was nice. Card games and chitchat abounded, and my shameful Pern addiction manifested itself. Sigh.

Since then I've pretty much been doing work of one sort or another. Lots of reading, not enough work on papers. Need to get on top of that.

Tuesday morning I'm tabling with Rainbow at the Al Franken event, and from what I've given to understand I'll be having breakfast with the man himself beforehand. I think. Hopefully he won't be a dick.