Mid-term goals:
- Develop a coherent style and/or philosophy of management and/or government. Apply it through CORe and/or SCOPE.
- Understand the wars/genocide(s) in former Yugoslavia/Serbia/what the hell ever happened in that region anyway. AHS Capstone?
- Scope out labs; figure out where I want to go to grad school.

This weekend was good for me psychically. Nantucket with Jobim, Angela, Andrea, and her family on Saturday -- we daytripped out and stayed at (count the links) Andrea's mother's boyfriend's sister's house. It was a beautiful day at the beach, and I got to try my hand on their inflatable windsurfing board, which was an impressive amount of fun. The thing about Nantucket is that even mentioning Nantucket (and most of the Cape, really) makes you sound like a pretentious bag or an aspirant to the landed gentry. Fun to experience, though, and I'd go back in a heartbeat! Today I spent several hours at Simon's cleaning out my inbox, biking straight past 1369 in Inman in the process (and good riddance). The yerba mate latte at Simon's is interesting but at medium size, the flavor of the mate is almost completely lost in the milk (with or without its charming trademark latte-art heart).

Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down are playing TT's on Tuesday! It's an 18+ show, even. I'm picking up tickets tomorrow; give a holler if you want one.

My damn laptop keeps locking up on the docking station. I reimaged at the end of the year but whatever causes the hanging has persisted / was reinstalled. Boo. Makes it a lot harder to, you know, use.

I expressed a number of interesting sentiments tonight. I intend to follow up on essentially none of them. Is the unimplemented, examined life as fatal as the merely unexamined? Perhaps it's worse: overexamination leads to paralysis, thus compounding indirection with hesitation.

I wonder what this semester will be like. I have a lit class at Babson that meets for 2.5 hours on Tuesday nights. The Stars and Dandy Warhols concert in early September is on a Tuesday night. Crap guys what do I do! I guess I have already seen Stars this year and don't really need to see the Dandy Warhols, but augh. Torquil Campbell! Amy Millan! I hope you will forgive me. Then again, I know that professor, and she will definitely forgive me. Hmmm.

In secret, we believe we're nothing nothing nothing that we need.
I almost really really like Mates of State. I would probably LOVE them remixed or covered. By the Postal Service. Yes.

Two weeks of work left!