The sky's gonna open, people gonna beg and crawl, it's gonna rain down fire, it's gonna burn us all

Yay, my Overstock package came today!

...though I kinda wish it had held off a day, because I find myself casting lustful looks at Digital Devil Saga 2 and The Wizard of London, but I CAN'T PLAY/READ THEM because I have a paper/presentation due tomorrow that I have to finish, not to mention the last 200 pages of Mansfield Park. x_x

I AM listening to my new Angel score soundtrack - "Live Fast, Die Never" - and enjoying it immensely. I loved the music in that series, and I only wish they'd release a score soundtrack for Buffy too (so far they've only had a couple of bonus tracks on the musical album and a couple on the normal soundtrack album). They even include some demon karaoke! :D

In my neverending quest to break brains (and spurred on by jokersama's shining example) I proffer to you Homestar Runner pr0n.

Let's Positive Linking, Political Edition!
- In case of disaster, save rich people first! I'd like to see this bigot try to make it by on $5.50 an hour. (From ahebert.)
- Onion: Dick Cheney dropped by White House HMO. IF ONLY. Maybe then he'd be a little more sympathetic and less assy. (From ryuusama.)
- Kid's class project on the Bill of Rights gets the Secret Service called in. Featuring your friendly quisling neighborhood Wal-Mart! (From jantalaimon.)
- Man passes counterfeit $200 bill. What I find funny is that the cashier TOOK IT. We are talking about someone seriously gifted here, folks. XD

Edit: *looks at subject line* Hmmm, looks like someone was predicting Season 4 in their song. XD

Wow, I'm managing to screw up this grad school thing in new and special ways!

...oh my God, I just realized that I had signed up to go to a lunch talk today, sponsored by the department, with a visiting medievalist (Geraldine Heng). She'd written one of the better articles we'd been assigned in Chaucer class, and I'll have to be giving a presentation on another of her articles a week from today in my theory class.

But after theory class today, I came home without even thinking about it and set to work on my paper/presentation for tomorrow morning, and for some reason my phone alarm (I'm using my T-Mobile pay-as-you-go phone, which is completely useless here, as a clock) didn't go off either. So I didn't even realize I'd missed it until I opened my university e-mail a few minutes ago and saw "Heng lecture" e-mails from last week. Crappity crap crap.

I feel especially bad because I was actually kinda looking forward to going to it, and my Chaucer prof (who organized it) had hinted VERY strongly that we should go to this event. So now I feel like a huge flake, and worse, like I appear to the department to be a huge flake. (Of course, I kinda WAS a huge flake when it came to this, but I'm mostly not normally! Honest!)

...AUGH AUGH AUGH. So I had to send an apologetic e-mail to my Chaucer prof. -_-;

Anyway, because misery shared is misery halved, have some depressing political news: apparently national park employees must now swear fealty to Bush's agenda in order to be hired. (From ahebert.)