Emotional Poop

That was going to be my title last night, but I forgot it, so I used the big baseball story instead. This title comes from The 4400 where one of glo-stick goombas had the ability to be a therapist. Really, her special power was to listen to people. In so doing, they felt better. It's like blogging, but with someone pretending to care. After her sessions of sitting comfortably and listening, a small solid-ish thing would appear, the person's emotional poop. All your bad feelings would be released into this poop-like thing, and you'd be free of carrying them around inside of you. It was really creepy. So was this kid whose power seemed to be being really annoying. Oh, and being able to stand around holding his mouth open while an air horn sounded. One guy was able to make fire from nothing, but no one else in this town of power-granted people seemed to have a cool power. I'm not even going to mention the apple pie.

They are getting a little heavy with the cute little Biblical / religious reference. In that episode, they had the Jesus character, Jordan Collier, bathing in a river (think: the river Jordan). I would not have caught the reference, and Lee almost missed it, but some writer stayed up for a week over that one.

Somehow, I managed to come home from school today and get work done. I did this sometime between taking a nap, cooking food for myself, and playing enough games online to give me carpal tunnel (if I didn't already have it). I produced another chapter of my thesis - 31 pages with 72 graphs, almost 1MB for the file. It looks like I'm going from a 5 chapter thesis to 6 chapters, but it's still going to cover the same ground - Moeller just wants me to split it into separate chapters. It doesn't matter to me either way. I just want to pass the defense, get the thing approved in Knoxville, and get my degree and pay raise.

While I'm thinking about it, some of the security clearance forms are reaching people today. So if I put you on the form I filled out a while back, you should be getting one of those soon. I know at least two people got it today, but it's the US Postal Service, so it could be any time between now and next Christmas. Feel free to be honest, but remember, you may need me as a reference some day. I wonder what they'd think if they found my blog? I hope they get my sense of humor - that could be bad if they misinterpret things.

Now, I have a notebook of Schulz's I need to give back - where did I put that thing? More tomorrow.