Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:09 am
Looking at our works, and His
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deckardcanineI didn't expect to write here until Thursday, after some major assignments, but I'm in the mood with my longest almost done. I even agreed to 2-3 hours' worth of editing on contract -- but the 9-10 hours' work on a proposal for Thursday by 10 PM must go to someone else. Reason would dictate that I should not have so positive a mood right now, but I laugh in the face of reason. At the moment.
The infamous worm taught me that sometimes it pays to be still using my frosh-year computer with Windows 98 (not that it beats modern Macs). Nevertheless, it has slowed my college's network: this morning I couldn't access even the local stuff that's normally intact when the rest is down. Seems to have gotten gradually better, and it's up to par now.
My "Literature of the Fantastic" class talked about monster movies this evening, so it seems appropriate that wormmongers came up. In pondering the evils of my heart, I've thought that the only offenses I could never see myself committing are genocide and slavery, what I consider the biggest human atrocities in history -- but this may be another. It requires a villany I can barely conceive, since the culprit can gain nothing but a vicarious pride of dark accomplishment...and quite frequently, negative attention. I hear the government catches most such criminals thru their chatroom boasts. I should thank my parents for raising me such that I can never understand the desire for negative attention.
Little network connection did give me the incentive to pick up my Scripture for next week's reading. I have less than half a book in the New Testament left! James refreshed me today by sounding more poetic than any other epistle I can remember, and Revelations, tho indecipherable, makes me envision automatically the coolest stained-glass images. Ah, required reading...the single best thing about my course in the New Testament and Christian Origins.
The infamous worm taught me that sometimes it pays to be still using my frosh-year computer with Windows 98 (not that it beats modern Macs). Nevertheless, it has slowed my college's network: this morning I couldn't access even the local stuff that's normally intact when the rest is down. Seems to have gotten gradually better, and it's up to par now.
My "Literature of the Fantastic" class talked about monster movies this evening, so it seems appropriate that wormmongers came up. In pondering the evils of my heart, I've thought that the only offenses I could never see myself committing are genocide and slavery, what I consider the biggest human atrocities in history -- but this may be another. It requires a villany I can barely conceive, since the culprit can gain nothing but a vicarious pride of dark accomplishment...and quite frequently, negative attention. I hear the government catches most such criminals thru their chatroom boasts. I should thank my parents for raising me such that I can never understand the desire for negative attention.
Little network connection did give me the incentive to pick up my Scripture for next week's reading. I have less than half a book in the New Testament left! James refreshed me today by sounding more poetic than any other epistle I can remember, and Revelations, tho indecipherable, makes me envision automatically the coolest stained-glass images. Ah, required reading...the single best thing about my course in the New Testament and Christian Origins.
