I had a professor write on one of my papers once, "Boy, when you grab ahold of a bad idea, you use both hands." I remember telling Christina how funny I thought that was (I still got an 80-something on the paper, so it didn't hurt too badly), and she just didn't think it was funny at all.

But on a different subject, I think I use both hands for a lot of ideas. I've been feeling bad because my only real means of contact with a lot of people in Houston has been blogs, and I just wasn't checking them anymore. So I finally realized that Blogger and Livejournal both have RSS and Atom feeds in place (well, blogger only has Atom, but it doesn't matter). So I fired up SharpReader and went crazy. I went to my one-stop-shop for links to all my friends' blogs (Jared's blog) and opened up every single blog he'd linked to in a new window. In fact, I opened up all the pages for people he's met online, too, not just for people I know. I don't know if it's because my laptop rocks, or because Firefox (which I use now) is a lot better than IE (which I used to use), but my performance didn't suffer at all with like thirty windows open. Anywho, I promptly subscribed to the Atom feeds for every single one of those blogs (except there were two or three that were broken. For sure, Jared, you need to remove that link to Katie S's blog, she deleted it. And some people *cough* Hartschuh *cough* haven't enabled RSS feeds in their blogs, and I curse them.) and I've been in catch-up heaven ever since. In fact, it's what I did instead of homework last night. So now I have to do my homework over my lunch break and in the hour between when I get off work and when I go to class, when it's due. Damn! But ah, blogs are good. I'll probably delete some of my subscriptions to Jared's online friends' blogs (Special K, for instance, doesn't look like it's being updated anymore) once I get tired of reading a LOT of blogs, but hey, that's life. Hell, I might even go find some interesting blogs on my own now instead of mooching off Jared's. Reading was never the hard part, it was going to the blog in my browser twenty days in a row only to discover that it hadn't been updated and then I stop visiting and start again after a month only to discover that the person started updating like mad the day I stopped reading which is such a pissoff and so frustrating it makes me want to write in runon sentences. Or maybe I'm the only one who doesn't update for twenty (or sixty, who's counting) days in a row. Meh.

Toodles!