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I know, I know, you guys are on the edge of your seat. Will I do NaNo this year? Well, the answer is....

**music builds**

No.

Try to keep it together, guys. For the children.

I seriously have noooooooooo attention span right now, which apparently I should not worry about, because my Yogi teabag label informs me It is not what you have that is your greatness, it is what you can give. Well then. Thanks, Yogi. Good to know I'll always be able to be of service to other people, even if I am not much use to myself.

By request: ( Cubsx3, and WS Game 3 )

I wish LJ would stop trying to ram new features I don't give a shit about down my throat. Why don't they try fixing the fact that I can't post or comment without running into some dumb ass error requiring me to do everything twice? Or, here's an idea: re-enable birthday notifications, so I can at least pretend I am not a jackass. Seriously. Someone remind me why I even still have a paid account. Icons aren't really the draw they used to be; I have less fewer than 40 of 111 slots filled as it is.

eta: The Orioles are one of the most dysfunctional franchises going[.] - Mychael Urban, in his column for The Examiner about Barry Bonds.

Thank you, and good night.

I'm glad we can agree on this.

So I've been feeling rather stressed and quite frankly, like a bit of a moron, as I try to make it through my readings lately for my Employee Benefits class. I sit and stare and sit and stare and hours pass and I've made it through 3 pages of reading and I think what the fuck, I still have another 27 pages of reading to go. And I think it's cause I'm trying to read too late at night, but it only makes slightly more sense in the morning, and just...gah!

And then I read this quote from Judge Learned Hand:

"In my own case, the words of such an act as the Income Tax [merely] dance before my eyes in a meaningless procession: cross-reference to cross-reference, exception upon exception - couched in abstract terms that offer no handle to seize hold of - leave in my mind only a confused sense of some vitally important, but successfully concealed, purport, which it is my duty to extract, but which is within my power, if at all, only after the most inordinate expenditure of time. I know that these monsters are the result of fabulous industry and ingenuity, plugging up this hole and casting out that net, against all possible evasion; yet at times I cannot help recalling a saying of William James about certain passages of Hegel: that they were, no doubt, written with a passion of rationality; but that one cannot help wondering whether to the reader they have any significance save that the words are strung together with syntactical correctness."

THANK YOU. (Though really, you could probably substitute ERISA in there, too.)

He is so my second-most favorite dead legal boyfriend (after Cardozo).