Here's something funny: as you're all well aware, for the last two weeks, the library has been home to all my internet and blogging needs. As you're not well aware, for the last week, the air circulator in here has been broken. It was fine when it was only 55 degrees outside, but it's considerably hotter right now. Currently, I'm dripping.

Oh, and school is fine. Lots of reading to do.

Guess where I am. Perhaps you guessed that I am at home, sitting in my home office, blogging from my home computer, in the comfort of my home? You would be wrong. I'm at the library.

Also of note, in terms of health care, it looks like Sarah and I are going to be uninsured (or, at the very least, minimally insured) in the next few weeks. I am now unequivocally in favor of universal health care. Interesting.

Correction about that poster: it actually said "GRAD SCHOOL". My mistake. In other news, I'm still posting from the library; it's lovely. Perhaps by 'Monday' things will again be right in the world, though this dream is likely of the pipe variety. Did I mention that one of my professors assigned 580 pages of (technically oriented) reading for the first week. I'm not sure if you realize how much that actually is. Try reading the about paragraph about 10,000 times, and I think you'll have some idea of what I'm talking about.

Turns out, AT&T forgot to hook up a line to our house. Also turns out, our landlord forgot to connect the outside line from AT&T to the inside of our house. Also also turn out that I'm still blogging from the library.

I'm still getting settled in as the semester progresses (lots of reading to do); I even found out that I have an office; three days later, I found out where it was and got a key. I share it with several other grad students, and, interestingly, on one wall there's a poster of a befuddled-looking John Belushi (from Animal House) with the words, "GRAD STUDENT", taped to his shirt. Telling?

School has officially begun, and AT&T has officially begun to get on my nerves. I signed up for home phone and DSL (internet) service many moons ago, and AT&T 'promised' to have everything turned on by Friday (which was a considerable wait, based on when I signed the service contract). Today is Saturday, and I'm typing this from the school library. AT&T 'promises' that we'll 'probably' have service by 'Monday', or, at the 'earliest', 'Tuesday' or 'Wednesday'. Whatever.

In the meantime I'm starting to adjust to my schedule, but I don't start teaching until Monday, so that should exponentially increase my workload, but we'll have to see how that actually plays out. Regardless, I have to go get back to reading every article in the library. Talk to you soon. ('Monday...or Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest'...