Nice morning..

Option a) Go to the class with the prof who "gets distracted" by quiet side comments, and decided to bitch out me and another student by email yesterday

Option b) IM Jen and have lunch

Guess which one I did? :)

(Hint: I can get notes from Laurel later)

If you know my academic tendencies, you may want to sit down..

I actually went to my own lab today and did work on my project. Be impressed that I finally got off my procrastinating arse and made some progress on which my graduation in May depends. :)

( I may have ulterior motives, though... )

What a depressing movie..

The bad thing about movies based on true stories is that when they have a sad ending, it's even worse than fiction because you know it actually happened. Case in point, The Mission, which I watched with one of Katia's small classes here at the house; topic of interest: "liberation theologies".

Spanish Jesuits go into South America (the Amazon, specifically), befriend and convert a tribe of Indians (the Guarani). Along the way, a slave hunter (formerly a hunter of these very Indians) repents, converts to Jesuit, and joins the missions. Then Spain decides to sell the land (and the missions) to Portugal, because politics and the Church dictate. The Jesuits disobey orders of the Church and help defend the Indians, and all the Jesuits and most of the Indians are killed. The end. Some liberation!