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So, yeah. Most of yesterday was spent either working my butt off packing for Maryland or sulking. Not really sulking. But. All those celebrations and so on in various places for Bin Laden's death, and all those varying conflicting attitudes? I don't know what'll happen now. I do know the implications are pretty bad, the consequences to our troops in Afghanistan might well be pretty bad, the potential for retaliation is high, and I just feel tired. I'm glad that a person who wanted to, tried to, and did cause much harm to many, many people is no longer in a position to actively do so. And I'm tired.

On the plus side, once I push past the exhaustion the writing is there. And I'm holding onto my routines. Backbone of life, I swear. The trick is whether your routines are healthy ones or not so healthy, I guess. (And the definition of healthy does vary a lot.)

Conflicting feelings also about the actors and characters in Babylon 5. Mostly Bruce Boxleitner and Zack Allen (actor and character, respectively, for those not familiar). Bruce... well, even more complicated there, and Zack, argh! Why are you so awesome and your actor is such a coked up psychopath? I'm not even kidding, google Jeff Conaway sometime and look at just how whacked out he is. Oof. Thinky thoughts.

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( Deutsch )

Okay, I am officially way the fuck off my date schedule for German review. Fortunately it's all organized, apart from the date stuff, by chunks and topics so all I have to do is erase the dates and note where I'm at. Still. Oi. Way more disrupted than I thought I would be or meant to be.

It is black as night out there, almost, and it should be broad daylight. Which means there is a storm sitting right on top of our dumb asses. This is going to make for an interesting evening. I guess the plus side to this is, there's been some writing, there can yet be more writing, and I am downloading my damn docs now and working on them on the computer so that if the internet or power goes out I can still work a fair bit before the pocket ninja runs out of battery. Eep.

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( 日本語 )

I just realized. That is actually the last grammar point in the book. Eep. Now, from German class I know it'll probably take me between two and three hours to work up a lesson plan for Japanese review, so I guess that'll wait till the weekend and until then it'll be grammar exercises and post-chapter review, but. Yeesh.

Babylon 5 continues to break my heart in currently politically relevant ways. Sheridan in particular. First it was the duration, now it's "We achieved the mission objective, it is not a victory." I kind of wish Obama had said that, but I doubt anyone would have paid attention anyway. But that's what happened, isn't it? We achieved the mission objective. But there's been too much blood spilled, too much that might yet be spilled on account of potential consequences to call it a victory. And, really, it's not even that a man has died although I feel as though I should feel worse about that than I do. I don't. I don't feel particularly glad that Bin Laden is dead, but I don't feel bad about it either. He made his choices. He knew the consequences.

Bleh. Maudlin and bleh. I need to get out of this mood somehow, and Babylon 5 probably won't cut it. Maybe playing guitar and getting some writing done will.