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The short verions: WRCU is facing possible shut-down or severe re-toolling due to a moronic alumni with a lot of money who is so out of touch it defies reality. What gave him the idea? The webpage. Well, at least the version I designed. And my quote is one of his sticking points. Grr. And the quote: "It's dead, Jim. Again. We aren't on a regular schedule, and if and when we're on, it's only on the Internet. Helpful, eh?" Apparently this is depressing an embarrassing for Colgate, becuase our transmitter broke, and they couldn't find the problem to fix it. What a fucking idiot. Basically, the station was in flux. the transmittor would be fixed fior a day, then another tube would pop. While this is a bad thing, it's far from within our control. We had just set up a shoutcast server for the first time, and DJs, being the finicky bitches that they are, would not consistently show up to just broadcast on the internet. Fortunately, our adviser, who also clearly doesn't know what's he's talking about while "defending" us, also expressed disapointment over my quote. He was on sabbatical. He never knew what was going on. He is an idiot. This is becoming less of a short version and more of a rant, so now I stop. I forgot to mention I'm slept for effectively 1.5 hours in the last 39.

My uncle died today. I had just been saying that no more relatives would be dying for awhile, what with all the eldest gone, but I guess not. So, in three months: one uncle and one grandparent. Go back three months before that, one grandparent and one uncle resurfacing from the dead to announce that he will be dead shortly. And go back a year and another grandparent. And I've handled all of them really well, or at least not badly - it's just that everyone else had been mourning those lost in the attacks, so it comes as a surprise for someone to die unrelated to them.

And leadership has problems, as always. It will never cease to amaze me how some people will evade logic on all levels because they feel themselves infallible. And really, everyone needs to reassess their harsh-o-meters, because I tend not to be harsh, dammit.

The quick version:

I'm not all that upset, and I can't figure out why.

I have and will most likely always, dislike the media. Although I suppose their skill in rephasing the same information in 15 different ways deserves some sort of credit.

Archbishops are not commentators, and therefore should never, ever be treated as such.

Islam is not evil, but people who are Islamic can be. Just as Christians can do evil, and Jews can be evil, and athiests can be evil. If you want to misinterpret things, you can do anything.

I've just spent five hours reading on a variety of geologic topics, many of which violate my two prefix limit (especially paleobiogeochemistry - yeesh), and even though it wasn't a sunset, it was just good. Knowledge, even particularly useless knowledge just gives one a sense of power. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to be lifting any volkswagon beetles anytime soon, but I feel power nonetheless. Each night I just want to run. I don't want to stop moving, thinking, living. For no apparent reason I feel like I'm on borowed time, and to justify the high interest rate I need to use it more efficiently - be it through thought or movement or movement of thought or thoughts about movement etc.