Last week was CRAZY. Lots of orders, lots of hustle, lots of school. Two papers done, skipped the rough draft on the third one. Just two papers left to go, one on the Singularity as Technologically Flavored Utopianism, and the Russian Military Modernization Led To Authoritarian Nightmare Country one.

My Russian history prof evilly suggested that that if Dead Souls was good, we should read War and Peace. So... I never got into it the first time, but now all the history background totally makes it make sense. You've got all these well educated, enlightened nobles, but the ugly truth is that they are all only able to fund their pursuits on the backs of slave labor. And of course, Napoleon shows up. The underlying contrast between elegance and brutality- it's underneath every society to some degree, but the more I learn about Russia the more I see what we take for granted here in the US.

So today is an alternation between first quarter data entry, and Tolstoy. And some writing.

I'm making peace with not being able to launch Untranslatable again at DEMF, but I'm still going to try. I'm just not going to really be able to do more than think of designs until after graduation. Oh well.

New concept/phrase:
post-retro: getting over recycling the past as a source of culture, and looking instead to the present or the future.

Ok, back to work.