Jansen’s Minneapolis

I’m facing some hardcore resistance writing my last history paper. It needs to be all of three pages. I’ve done all the research. I’ve read over 300 pages for this thing. I’m so just so incredibly bored with the subject that I can’t stop whining about not writing and just write it because I don’t want to write it.

And well, I need to. The FTS (F-this-S) hormones have arrived. They need to go away for the 45-or-so-minutes this thing will take to write.

I even entertained the idea of not writing the paper for a while, but when I mentioned this to Miss Pao she threw a fit. Seriously. Stomping and all.

She might stab me if I don’t turn it in.

The swamp. I ran face-first into a web with a huge-huge spider up in there yonder.

We were stalked by the pelican with the greedy eyes.

I don’t trap hermit crabs in random Heineken bottles…but someone does.

I swam in a mangrove swamp today. There are a lot of glass shards and budlight cans, but it’s still a beautiful place to read and swim.

When I sat still long enough in the water puffer fish would swim around me.
Weekend boaters kept docking on the little sand bank I was on. One boater even offered a joint. I politely told him to get off my island.

Miami Friday: Class, work, then the water.

I interrupted the pelican convention at the beach today. There were about six of them fishing off the peer.

I kept stepping on sea urchins too.

The beach is a wildlife reservation. “Wildlife” is an over-statement. The possums are so domesticated on the island that people are hand-feeding them.

This week eletronics failed me: I lost my phone, broke my mp3 player, ran into a card-eating ATM, and sent my laptop to Gatewayland for repair.

I also lived in the library for the better part of the week: 6 papers and one group project. Yes. Indeed.

The website, blog, and twitter have new designs. I kept it simple since the the last design was a bit gaudy.

Currently:

• Saw the movie Smart People, and was impressed.
• I’m a paper warrior. The library is my battlefield.
• I’ve gotten into Salem Al Fakir. The remixes are also the business.
• Might start that running thing again.
• Lost my phone and replaced it with a broken one