information travels faster in the modern age as our days are crawling by so slowly

i really can never be sure if my own jokes are funny until someone else laughs.

i started listening to a lot of death cab for cutie this week. i haven't listened to them since like 2005 otherwise. it's because of my new computer and having all my music in one place. (technology leads to change. global affairs!)

all of a sudden i am mildly interested in the pathogelogical aspects of globalization (is that the right word at all?) but it certainly won't last. i wrote a master's thesis proposal about the development of the police as an institution, which i think is kind of funny because i started in global affairs because i was sick of criminal justice in general and the police specifically, but mostly i was just sick of having to think of a dissertation / core topic, and now i have a core topic anyway (related to, but not the same as, the master's thesis.) quite a few papers to write though.

well, half of a paper that i need to get in soon, and another one for that same class on some kind of topic about global political economy. anything! and then one on policing that will be a short draft of the core. not bad not bad.

also i want to write a short story or something but who knows. i started one about careers in advertising called careers in advertising but i'm not really sure what i want to do with it plotwise, or characterwise, or stylewise.

giving a midterm tomorrow. we really have not gotten that far along yet, so i couldn't even come up with enough multiple choice questions. which means we will be staying late for much of the rest of the semester.

i don't know what i'm doing next year at all, i mean i seriously have not yet been able to figure out if i'm going to take classes or just do something else or what. a lot of it depends on me passing the qualifying exam, which is monday. it is awful awful and besides that i have to wake up at like 6:30 to get there, so that is certainly a handicap. answering a question about research design and statistics is not something i should be doing while asleep.

its going to be a busy weekend. if you see me sitting around doing nothing, remind me there's a war going on or something.