semagic just popped up to alert me.

happy birthday lardencelover!

(i have just put merrycontrary and juice817 to bed down the hall, as there are early buses to the airport to catch tomorrow, but i know if they were standing over my shoulder right now, they'd say happy birthday too.  it is fun to have friends in other time zones, because it makes your birthday last longer!  [g])

saturday

by now, merrycontrary is at the airport and juice817 is somewhere over greenland.  i have matched all the incoming students i know about with what are here called 'junior sponsors', but in other colleges (and my own department) have been called 'parents' and in most US situations would be called 'big brothers/sisters' or similar, and sent the list off back to the office.  should probably take a shower before the next time i leave the building.  but i'd also like to get a few hundred words of my thesis written, not to mention something for the Worst Case Scenario challenge, my entry in which i had completely forgotten about until a little before this time yesterday.

meh.  need tea.

movies!

crash -- have you all seen it?  (i lose track, all the way over here, of when things come out on your side, when there's not a simultaneous worldwide release.)

if you haven't, and you still can, go now.  this thing's (eta: directed, by the way, by paul haggis, whom many of us have heard of, haven't we [g]) going to win awards, man.  i could even go out on a limb and say Ludacris gets nominated for best supporting actor.