Beating the blahs with Massey

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This afternoon, I was thinking about the things I'll need to do over the next two and a half months in general, and the next four days in particular, and getting progressively more overwhelmed. I reached that point of overwhelmed where I become almost completely immobile, unable to do anything more mentally taxing than browsing the internet. So, at 7:40, I found myself sitting in front of the computer with a practically-untouched pile of Latin next to me, browsing for LJ icons. Yes, browsing for LJ icons. Even though I've already filled my quota of icons. How pathetic is that?

And I remembered that there was a lecture tonight at Massey, given by a friend of mine, that I actually wanted to go to. The lecture was at 8. It was currently 7:41. It's a 20-minute walk to Massey. Do the math.

After powerwalking my way over, I arrived just in time for the start of the lecture. It was on associative learning, more particularly about geometric associative learning. I'm sure it would be old hat to anyone actually in psychology, but for me it was mostly new ground. I felt more educated for having gone.

I was on the point of leaving, to go home and grab an ice cream and a shower (though preferably not at the same time), when I got into a conversation with one of the senior residents at Massey. The topic eventually settled onto the effects of the internet on communication, culture, and consciousness, a topic I am happy to babble about for hours with the smallest amount of prompting. The conversation went long, until he reached his bedtime, I reached my almost-bedtime, and we decided to call it a night. As an added bonus, though, I believe he may be a new reader of this blog. If you're reading, you can leave a comment to this post even if you don't have a livejournal account: just click on the link at the bottom.


So now I'm home. I don't want to think about the massive amounts of Latin I theoretically need to translate for tomorrow. That's at the other end of 7 hours of sleep. For now, I'll just say g'night. G'night all!