Breaking News: Giant Nerd Enjoys Tea, Podcasts

It's possible -- just possible -- that lounging around on a smooshy cafe love seat and listening to the Doctor Who Book Club Podcast whilst drinking pu-erh tea and dinking about on the Internet is the world's most perfect leisure activity.

(Hi. Giant nerd here. If you're surprised, you're clearly new.)

Day Two of Not Doing Anything (Other Than the Dayjob) so far has been interesting. I stayed up late by accident, but got up at the usual time and mostly spent that time doing web errands like adding (re)Visions: Alice to my Buy Words page, catching up on e-mail, catching up with things in Google Reader, etc. Work was heavy and busy (in no small part because I'm off tomorrow), which is mostly what precipitated the tea-and-smooshy-love-seat plan.

Soon I will be eating with a friend who is leaving town for a while. After that, home and probably sleeping.

Tomorrow feels kind of like a staging area for the next few months. For one, I'm planning on using some of that time to revamp and reboot my studies in druidry, which is absolutely necessary after the giant collegiate steamroller crushed its path through everything for about seven months.

Also, I'm feeling a pleasure trip to the library may well be in the cards. That'll be a nice change, especially now that the two backpacks full of books I've been working with these past few months have been returned to their right places.

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- Here, have a really fantastic video of Ginsberg reading "Wales Visitation." Fuck yeah, poetry.

- Bart Leib, one of my favorite people I've met because of writing, has one of the coolest children ever. LEGO Portal! Dear Valve: get on that.

- First thing from the ACLU: know your electronic privacy rights! Support the rationalization of same! (This is why I do not write slogans.)

- Second thing from the ACLU: Congress is quietly trying to give the President some seriously alarming new war powers. This is a Bad Idea. Call your reps.

- More evidence of my giant nerd status? I freaking love this video.

- One of the high points of today was reading Neil Gaiman's post about his Doctor Who ep airing and what came after.

And now, food.

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