GRRRRRAGH!! *smacks Blogger up the side of the head with a large trout*

Meanwhile, though, I suppose Monday wasn't really as awful as I made out. I just spent a lot of time catching up on my role-playing - such sterling gems as Imperial Secrets, which I firmly believe is the best free-form RP of which I have ever had the fortune to partake. And then, of course, I absolutely had to find and read the entirety of Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" (Hi Drew!), giggling all the way. Previously (on Dawson's Creek) I had visited the library and done some mildly interesting and quite confusing reading for this forthcoming essay, which I managed to wangle an extension for at the lecture that morning. The lecture (on the melodramatic "Spies, Speed, and Cyber-War") also allowed me to make the following observations/quotes which I found highly appealing at the time:

• "We live in the memory of the past and the anticipation of the future."
  
• There is 37 minutes flight time on a ballistic missile from the USSR to the USA.
  
• "Counterintelligence produces paranoia."
  
• MIGs just look so cool!

As you can see, it was a highly productive lesson.