It's...

Monty Python's Flying just kidding it's my blog, back again.

I intended only to blog during the summer while I was gone, but then lots of other people who were also doing summer blogs are keeping theirs around and are still posting interesting things. Maybe I, too, can be interesting. Probably not, but it's worth a try. The conflict is really that the blog is too public to be a serious journal of my thoughts, but it also takes enough of my time that keeping a for-real journal is a bit too much. I guess I'll just combine this with having accountability? But that's cheating, since I should have accountability anyway...whatever.

The Computer Showcase downstairs in the Union is an amazing place, let me tell you. I took my computer there to try to get my computer healed of its paralyzing virus; this they did for free, in 10-15 minutes, while talking to me about Michigan hockey. Amazing. They were also selling printers for $25, and I think I'm going to go back tomorrow and purchase one. This will save me some inconvenient trips to Angell Hall to print things for, say, Building Blocks.

The first of the new roommates moved in today, which meant I also met him for the first time. His stuff had been trickling in, but always at times when I was gone. He's pretty interesting; he gave me his copies of Dante's Inferno (original Italian next to the English translation) and The Portable Kipling, and he brought with him an enormous collection of legitimately purchased DVDs and a Go board. It seems like he should fit right in with a Burkean classicist with authorial aspirations and a slight Taoist streak and an anarchist chemist who owns two out of the three canonical Chinese classical novels.

The restoration of my computer demolished any chance that once existed of my doing serious work today. I had to read down my Google Reader subscriptions--there were nearly a thousand entries, largely because I'm subscribed to around seven BBC News feeds--and I had to answer/delete some emails to get them back down to a reasonable level. So that took a while. Then I didn't feel like doing anything else...yeah, you know how it goes. And in a year, I'll be a real person.

Tomorrow: plenty of reading in Latin and Greek, have to consolidate notes taken for my paper, have to create a decent outline of the topics I want to discuss in the paper. RUNNING. I've been running. Working my way up slowly to avoid setbacks. One mile a day on three days last week, and this week is one mile a day for five days. Next week...well, I'm not sure yet. I might set an amount of time and just see how much distance I can cover over that time. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free; it's been a long time since I trained for cross country.