dream theater

This morning, between alarms, I dreamed that I was making plans to go to the World University Games trials in Rice Lake, WI -- this is true, by the way; if I can swing it, I'll be up there as what they're now calling "Deputy Chief Umpire" -- and dsudis was telling me that the best airport to fly into was ... wait for it ... "Ontario". I can't recall if she seemed to be suggesting Toronto or Ottawa, but it was one or the other, and in either case, it was an iffy sort of idea. :-) (It looks as if the best airport may be Minneapolis-St Paul, in fact, which is kind of a drag as it's apparently a hundred miles away. I could fly to Eau Claire, which would involve less driving, but it would cost more and I'd have to change plans at MSP, so what would be the point.)

that politics meme

I know when I put together questionnaires (which I did some in grad school and do some now at work), I often have the responses on a six-point scale -- an even number of options, is the point, so people can't just abdicate answering a given question. There's no button for "no opinion".

Still annoys me when I meet that on a questionnaire I'm taking, though. :-) In this case, there weren't questions on which I had no opinion, but there were ones where I felt like boiling it down to "agree" or "disagree" was too facile. (I mean, of course.) What I wound up doing was choosing "agree" when I found myself thinking "well, yes, but ..." and "disagree" when I found myself thinking "not unless ...".

I do pretty much agree with the result I got, though. ( Not quite a Socialist, but it's a close call. )