Damek.

Well that was annoying. This year’s ATS conference. I just wasn’t into it. Mostly because I was preoccupied the whole time with finishing my history class’s take-home exam, and then with trying to build a site for the local environmental group I’m helping start, Upper Green Side (and I mean “helping” in the weakest sense possible; it’s Glenn’s baby, and he’s doing all the work).

So anyway, I came home tired, jet-lagged, and just not wanting to deal with anything, especially since my flights home were all shifted and delayed. Friday I don’t even remember what I did. I think I watched recorded TV all day and finished working on the Upper Green Side site. Saturday I took a nice walk, listened to a couple podcasts, and had a nice dinner with Alex and her brother Adriaan. Sunday I managed to get out enough to go see An Inconvenient Truth, which I highly recommend. It pretty much gets the science right, and when the only things detractors can say about it are just so dang laughably silly, you gotta call it a success. I specifically liked that he didn’t dwell on the blame game, taking only a moment at one point to talk about congress not addressing the problem in the past, in the context of how things could have gotten this bad to begin with. If there was anything wrong with the film at all, it would have to be the few “Gore campaign”-type segments, but, eh, whaddayagonnado?

Then today I spent all day watching the Stargate Atlantis marathon on Sci-Fi, and I think I’m sufficiently brain-numbed to actually be looking forward to work tomorrow. And I’ve seen the commercial for Sci-Fi’s ridiculous “original movie” Black Hole an unforgivable number of times. Poor Judd Nelson, forced to say stupid lines like “A black hole is not an object you can drop a bomb on and destroy!”

And now, on to summer! My classes are done and I finally have the evenings to myself. I plan to read a lot, and help move Upper Green Side forward. That, and enjoy the summer evenings sometimes. It’ll all be over in three months, and then the tutoring starts…