"Was bist du, doch nur ein Tier?"

- I just ran for about two and a half hours, which is the farthest I've gone yet... I was really slack this past week, but today I went out to Brett zip4096's house (I don't think he was home) over by Candler Park and explored that path that runs parallel to North/Ponce/Freedom for a while and then ran back along Highlands, through the Highlands, to Virginia Ave, and then past that park they have over there. I had to walk a few times... but no more slacking; I hereby prescribe myself weekday after-class-or-meetings-or-whatever workouts for the rest of the semester, just like in highschool! I also prescribe myself some fake Kung Pao chicken!

- Andrew sault may say that he's impressed, but he's totally training to cycle to Alabama by backroads.

- Last night, we (Brett and Martin and I) headed out to Freedum Fest, which was really pretty surreal. All sorts of wonderfully gentle-and-odd-and-friendly people, most of whom were there to make Noise music (and some of whom who'd driven from really far away to do so!)... and it was at the promoter's house, which was somehow in the middle of the woods and yet in a little residential neighborhood in Stone Mountain! One fellow had Just Completed a short-ish zombie film, and it was pretty awesome (there were flying eyeballs and an extended chase sequence and running sight gags involving people thumping into trashcans when trying to run away), and then there was all sorts of improvised banging-on-things and heavily distorted feedback produced with modified kids toy instruments and a guitar with the strings replaced with a huge twangly spring! Sort of a sensory overload, but a lot of interesting people...

- Okay, off to get food, then back to work!