the dorm i'm living in is not wireless and i resent that. i have resented that since the day i moved in. i'm fed up with sitting in front of my desk; the only place any right-minded person would choose to work is in bed. i would buy a router only i had the impression i had read in one of the graduate handbooks that i had to get permission from the authorities first, and i never know how to do that sort of thing. yesterday i read on the harvard gazette that we will not have fully wireless dorms until the end of 2005. i especially bristled at the part that says that our residential halls "already offer wireless access in common areas such as lounges, libraries, dining rooms, and hallways..." as if anybody crouches in the hallway to do work!!!

on a less discontented note seamus heaney will open the harvard celtic colloquium here next thursday.