At Anschutz Library... at 6:14am. Philosophy of Mind is, needless to say, not my best subject. Western Civ II went well though. It has come to my attention that the comment system built in to blogger requires that you sign up with them before posting comments (which I disapprove of), not to mention that the comments are simply posted under my post when you click to view them. I am looking in to something like HaloScan for a new comment system, you'll see it when it changes. Also, I am going to move the archives to post monthly instead of weekly as I cannot guarantee frequent posting for the near or distant future.

Before I go, just wanted to mention that high-ranking Congress members in India are resigning to protest Ghandi's refusal to be prime minister... economic impact is already apparent with the crash of the Indian stock market... but my worry is (of course) how this will play out in India/Pakistani relations as they tend to be on the verge of something at all times. As always, more when it happens.

This gas station in Menlo Park, California, has managed to get to the heart of the problem. Photo courtesy of CNN, no idea if it will go down in the future. My 12 gallon tank is costing me over $25 to fill... and I only fill every 10 gallons... this is not right.

Just got done with my graduate seminar oral exam/paper defense. Luckily it was pass/fail 10% of the grade, and while nothing was marked as "superior" on my exam I did manage to get marked as exceptional on most other things. That means I got another letter grade in the class, now if I can get a 70/80 on my paper I get an A for the semester... got my fingers crossed.

In other news, the president of the Iraqi Governing Council was killed today in a car-bomb. He is the second member of the council to be assassinated, and his loss is sure to make Bush think even harder about who the hell sovereignty is going to be handed over to next month (June 30). Also, an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) which lightly bruised a convoy a few days ago has now been determined by a preliminary examination (which have been disproved several times in Iraq so far) to have contained sarin nerve agent. The couple soldiers effected claimed to have felt a bit ill in the days following the explosion. Sarin, by the way, is lethal by the drop; therefore, there is a great deal of speculation now that this artillery shell which contained the agent was a forgotten remnant from the Cold War. This would explain the deterioration of the agent to such an insignificant threat. A similar incident involving what appears to be mustard gas occurred about a week ago, but again preliminary studies have been disproved on this exact matter before so we are not sure about anything yet.

Finally, Tony Blair has announced his desire for Turkey to be admitted in to the EU with the final stages of planning to be done later this year. Will Germany try to block it? Who knows, but with EU/UK relations at this point I would not put it out of the question. More to come as that develops.