Tuesday, 4 May 2004 05:55 pm
More Mixed and Mixing News
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deckardcanineThe horse-naming contest results are in. None of my entries show among the hundred sampled, tho some bear a resemblance and IMO were an improvement. My mom and her coworkers think the new contest judge must have overlooked some of mine, but I'm content to enjoy the lucky ones, only about three of which elude my getting. Besides, the next contest, with its deadline a ways off, looks more up my alley. Ah, the animal kingdom...
Bad news: I've been feeling sick lately, and only during or immediately after meals. Yesternight I skipped almost half my dinner, today part of my lunch. Is the dining hall in worse shape than usual? (Breakfast is in another hall.) Have I had too much of the same-old-same-old, due to few appetizing options? Something in the grains, which I'm most likely to skip? Have I eaten too fast without noticing? I'm not hungrier than usual later.
Dunno if I've caught an internal bug, but I'm finding ants in my room more than ever before. It's not particularly hot out, I haven't dropped food anywhere, and the Japanese attack beetles are laying low, so what gives? An ironic cosmic connection to that monster movie discussion with "Them!" and similar festivities? Last summer I felt funny about using primarily C.S. Lewis's "The Problem of Pain" and Peter Kreeft's "Making Sense out of Suffering" to crush beetles; now I'm using Scripture itself.
Good news: Much as I hate the worldwide worm -- and today a couple power outages, which hopefully do not connect to it -- it has given me a much-needed extension on an assignment or two. Also, it turns out that "Literature of the Fantastic" does not demand four papers in the semester but two; four was the plan if we could get two credit hours' worth. That explains the puzzlement at my second story submission, which mercifully spanned a page and a half.
Now off to dinner and the philosophy session I've most dreaded: a debate on abortion rights.
Bad news: I've been feeling sick lately, and only during or immediately after meals. Yesternight I skipped almost half my dinner, today part of my lunch. Is the dining hall in worse shape than usual? (Breakfast is in another hall.) Have I had too much of the same-old-same-old, due to few appetizing options? Something in the grains, which I'm most likely to skip? Have I eaten too fast without noticing? I'm not hungrier than usual later.
Dunno if I've caught an internal bug, but I'm finding ants in my room more than ever before. It's not particularly hot out, I haven't dropped food anywhere, and the Japanese attack beetles are laying low, so what gives? An ironic cosmic connection to that monster movie discussion with "Them!" and similar festivities? Last summer I felt funny about using primarily C.S. Lewis's "The Problem of Pain" and Peter Kreeft's "Making Sense out of Suffering" to crush beetles; now I'm using Scripture itself.
Good news: Much as I hate the worldwide worm -- and today a couple power outages, which hopefully do not connect to it -- it has given me a much-needed extension on an assignment or two. Also, it turns out that "Literature of the Fantastic" does not demand four papers in the semester but two; four was the plan if we could get two credit hours' worth. That explains the puzzlement at my second story submission, which mercifully spanned a page and a half.
Now off to dinner and the philosophy session I've most dreaded: a debate on abortion rights.
