'Just in between lecture and lab, on lunch, and needed to vent.

Well, everyone unanimously agrees: Tuesdays are getting progressively worse each week. Just awful. I simply cannot stress that point enough. It needs to be heard.

In our three-hour lecture this morning on the wonderful world of Quark (zzz) those with wi-fi laptops were busy booking flights to Falluja, where we here they don't have to deal with this. The rest of us could be seen sporadically mouthing the words "kill me...kill...me," ala that freakish Sigourney Weaver genetic clone in Alien Resurrection.

Plus I'm working on less than five hours' sleep, since I had the wisdom and foresight to play two hours' worth of Halo late last night. Not Halo 2, mind you, which just came out, but simply Halo. I can't be a geek correctly even when I try. Christ.

(Actually, upon further review of the play - by Cronkette - the call on the field is overruled. I am indeed an effective geek.)

In other news, it looks like Frosty finally got tired of my libelous attacks on his good name. He decided to counter my slanderous, spin-filled, O'Reilly-esque blog with his own page: Please Advise. The yin to my yang. A Bizarro-Dickie, if you will.

(No, I don't get the "Please Advise" reference either. But I'm sure it's a good one.

And no, you're right - I have no business chiding him for his blog's name when my name is "Dickie Cronkite." 'Good point.)

Be sure to welcome him to these prestigious, professional halls of Journalscape. It's an exclusive club, and a distinguished honor - they don't just let any blathering, bumbling blow-hard write whatever the hell they feel here.

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I encourage you to check his take on this whole J-school thing, and I reluctantly surrender my monopoly on the topic (I was like the Bill Gates of J-school. Except, you know, without money. ...One might even say "poor.") And please understand that I am in no way responsible for his content. Unless it's good content, in which case I was clearly the inspiration.

I'm sure you'll be hearing about Please Advise-ette over there too. Actually, she's his fiancee so I guess it would be Soon-to-be-Mrs. Please Advise. (right?)