correction: 3am is a good time to wake up and scramble to work, provided you don't simply fall asleep two hours later to be tremendously late for your first class.

the jewish word for honey is almost the same as the arabic for lion. which makes samson's riddle less unfair that it might seem, so says somebody in a book i haven't read but am going to pretend i have anyway.

very touchy and nervous today, because after midnight the temporary ceasefire will end and emails from m&n will pelt me into submission. literally.

and yeenteck caught me online yest and asked, i don't geddit, what's this t-word you won't let us say? oh good, i think to myself, that's a person who should be kept in ignorance for another week, but he threatened to ask around, so in the interest of human knowledge but not friendship i told him.