Therein we find contradiction contradicted

So it turns out, I haven’t written here in about a week. And I haven’t written about my life in about two weeks. The past two weeks seem to have occurred very quickly, but they seem to have taken a long time to do so. And I haven’t written because I haven’t really felt like I had anything to write about, even though my life has been somewhat interesting lately. Yeah, I don’t really get it either.

It’s an odd thing, this month in Houston. I get up early every day and go to work. Most evenings, I’ve been visiting old friends at Rice. It’s been a very full schedule. In between work and a social life, I’ve been revising some papers and some web sites. I added an RSS feed of Oxfam news to the Oxfam site I maintain, and I did a bunch of updating on the philosophy department site. I’ve written a term paper, and revised two shorter papers and submitted them to conferences.

I made an audition video for Buxton’s Iolanthe. I feel ok about it. Maybe I’ll be able to post some video files again in a little bit; so far, technical difficulties have caused techincal difficulties.

The other night, Emily, Shari, Lauren and I went to Chuys and had some food and drink. We played MASH, where we divined our fortunes. I’m happy to report that I will marry Leonora Braham. We will live in a shack in Boston, and I will be remembered long after my death for my amazing pattering skills. And Sex-MASH divined for us, among other things, that I will copulate with Lauren on the RLOS Patience stage with the March of the Peers playing in the background. Interesting.

Lots of football this weekend. I’d decided to be a Falcons fan until the Super Bowl, so I enjoyed the thrashing of the Rams. Ok, who am I kidding? I’d’ve enjoyed almost any team’s thrashing of the Rams. I watched the Eagles/Vikings game with Kelsey. It was very nice to see Kelsey, and I like her. She seems to be doing pretty well, which makes me happy. The game didn’t make me happy, but it’ll end up being worth it if it turns out the Eagles lose another NFC Championship. That’d be very funny.

I’m watching the Patriots and the Colts right now. I love the Colts this year, but the Pats are a good team to love, too. I’m rooting for the Colts — or at least, I was; the Pats look amazing and the game loooks to be effectively over now. 7:13 remaining. Bonnie Berstein looks fantastic on the sidelines today in her winter clothes and side braids. Mmm.

I’ll be a little conflicted if it’s Patriots/Falcons. I like the Pats, but I dislike dynasties that aren’t the 49ers. And I like Michael Vick and Jim Mora. And if I watch the Falcons beat the Eagles, that’ll endear them to me very much. We’ll see.

Patience rehearsals start tonight. I’m excited. It’s quite soon, really, and I should go get ready. I think I’d like to look nice; tonight represents a large number of first impressions to be made. And that impression is very important to me, this time particularly, because this cast has to put up with a major lead being missing for almost the entire rehearsal period. I need to be charming and professional and very good, or people will think that the substantial investment in me was not worth it.

Once more — adieu.