When it rains it pours

… And the deluge begins

So, I’ve moved in. Public areas are largely unpacked, the fridge is restocked (despite the actions of those I was subletting from). An anger management topic there. Some storage furniture (shelves, etc) would be

I have my buspass, and my student loan (checks going out to and tonight, I swear.) Classes started on tuesday. I haven’t worked out in nearly a week. I signed up for a soccer team dealie with the humphrey. Going to the queer grad students initial meeting this evening. Tomorrow afternoon I talk to the YMCA about financial assistance (and thus miss the Compassionate Action for Animals meeting).

Still in the first week glow, in which all my classes are pretty cool. I expect a fair amount of tedious busywork intended to teach material I already know. Particularly in my economics and statistics classes. I intend to learn as much as I can and get straight A’s this semester.

There is no way I can keep up with my lj subscriptions as they stand, so I’m probably going to move a great deal out of my default view. Don’t take it personally if I’m not following yours anymore.

and for the prurient

Linkity linkity

A critique of a representative sample of bush’s evironmental record (stand back, it’s long)
A comparison of the American and European dreams
(I’m no longer certain which journal I pulled those out of)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/krypt_kycker/48493.html

introduced me to Machall with this comic which seems, perhaps slightly more relevant to WoW or Evercrack users, but amusing nonetheless. =)

biodiesel and fuel cells

So, biodiesel, it’s awesome, it sequesters CO2, it’s only triflingly less energy dense than petro diesel, it’s renewable, it’ll employ farmers and revitalize rural economies, it’ll even do the laundry.

PEM Fuel cells, they use hydro-carbon energy sources far more efficiently to produce electrical energy, and produce far less nastiness along the way than traditional internal combustion engines.

Is there some reason that these two great tastes can’t taste great together? I realize that both of these are far from polished technologies at present, but is this a tree worth barking up? I have seen/heard nothing thus far about this particular possibility.

Particularly targeted at chemists, like and . 😉

Eventful netless time

I’m in the new place in uptown. We have no net, and won’t have in until saturday. I’m going through orientation. Meeting cool people, and saying goodbye to others. I can feel the, admittedly shallow, roots I put into and Ben by their absence.

I met a hot guy in my program who was checking me out during class. It was good for the ego. He has a boyfriend, but I wasn’t expecting anything to work out on that level. Much fun to talk to. He’s also midcareer on some interesting work. I look forward to getting to know him better.

Joe Y made me some cookies. I shared a couple with . The three of us saw Hero together last night. We have a roommate for at least a month. He’s an older guy, owns a house in Duluth.

My gym routine is shot to hell this week. As is my ffxi habit. But the net should be back on saturday. And I have the financial data lined up to apply for a ymca scholarship. Here’s hopin on that front.

And I’ve discovered “The Postal Service” through a cd left by . Need to send $$ to her. And to berkeley. But my laptop battery is dying, and I must go. So, later, all.

Nobody wants to live with a homo?

So, after sending out reply emails with our descriptions to the interested people from the ad that doesn’t talk about us being gay, I’m getting a way less than 50% response rate. And the ad that mentions that we’re homo is getting a vastly lower hit rate than the one that says next to nothing about us, and describes only the unit.

What the hell? It’s a discount room, in as homo & trendy a neighborhood as minneapolis seems to have, people should be swarming. Chicago/Bay area, how I miss thee. =)