two-week summer vacation!

- I've returned from California, and I'm pleased with this situation. It was a lovely visit. We saw the family and hung out and ate tasty veggie food, and I went running on the beach (it's hard to do better in life than running on the beach near the suburbs of San Diego), and the waves were smallish, so we didn't surf, but it was Family Bonding Time, and it including a trip out to a club with the older cousins, and that particularly was interesting mostly in a social-sciences-field-trip sort of way. I could imagine living there... such a beautiful place...

- If the whole CS thing falls through, I'm going to take up ethnography and document ritualized behaviours in bars and nightclubs.

- Grades are out. I was pleased to get a B in Theory, yay :) I was less pleased to get a B in HCI. *self-righteous indignation fades, considers, shrugs, sends an email instead of being upset*

- Now it's time to be in Tallahassee :) Here, there are people to see and things to do... yay for home!

absentee voting!

For those of us who're going to be away from home on election day... don't forget to get your ballot mailed to you. It's really really easy -- you can do it over the phone. I just called the Leon County elections office:

http://www.co.leon.fl.us/elect/offinfo.htm

... and the lady on the other end was really nice, and she had all my information right there, and she signed me right up. Democracy in action... eh, I've got a good feeling about this. The world is not doomed.