w00t!

Everyone so helpful!

Question on research funding posed to assistant of woman in charge of such things got reply:

I am not sure about the answer to that question. Tammy, the Director of the LIFE Program will be in later today and I will either get the answer from her or refer her directly to you. We will find the answers!

Question on possibility of ordering book to campus store so I could buy it there got reply:

I'll go ahead and order a copy of this book for you and let you know as soon as it comes in.

Yay!

Damn..

Forgot the cardinal rule of Ithaca:
Always carry an umbrella.
=P

People apparently just don't get it :P

Note: Hughes Hall has a pathway around it that is, I believe, currently closed for construction.

From the 9/10 CUPD morning police report, selected incidents:

09/08/01
TRESPASS
HUGHES PATHWAY
Reported five individuals have been referred to the Judicial Administrator for Trespass at 0222 hours on 09/08/01.

09/08/01
TRESPASS
HUGHES PATHWAY
Reported two individuals have been referred to the Judicial Administrator for Trespass at 0240 hours on 09/08/01.

09/08/01
TRESPASS
HUGHES PATHWAY
Reported three individuals have been referred to the Judicial Administrator for Trespass at 0315 hours on 09/08/01.

09/09/01
TRESPASS
HUGHES PATHWAY
Reported an individual has been referred to the Judicial Administrator for Trespass at 0026 hours on 09/09/01.

09/09/01
TRESPASS
HUGHES PATHWAY
Reported referring two individuals to the Judicial Administrator for Trespass at 0312 hours on 09/09/01.

You'd think people would learn..

On German journalism:

An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech -- not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary -- six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam -- that is, without hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each inclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which reinclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making pens within pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it -- after which comes the VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb -- merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out -- the writer shovels in "haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature -- not necessary, but pretty.
-- Mark Twain --

Ooh.. neat.

A good thing happens, a bad thing happens.. is it a blessing, a curse, or something else?