We're an amalgamation, yes. If all a person's stances are naive, then I'd be hard pressed to characterise them otherwise.

But even if a person is naive I think it's an important rhetorical distinction between an opinion and a person--let's just call all the other stances inadmissible in this court (or better yet, merely irrelevant). I don't care whether Trudy's naive or not. It has nothing to do with my point, and as pretty much a personal attack, distracting attention from the debate at hand.

This friday would work for me too, at least in concept. Let's try to make it happen.

I'd say that we are an amalgmation of our thoughts and opinions and memories.

Mmm. Interesting. I'd agree, although I'd add that we are also defined by our relations to other people.

I have to go to work; I'm not even going for a run with my sister first. Sigh.

I am working from home. which is considerably not fun, but better than going into the office. and since it is all just responding to IMs and Skype calls from Israel, it is not too demanding.

I am trying to work at home, but I'm not being very productive.

Gonna go feed Isaac, then get ready for stretch class.

I have to go to work; I'm not even going for a run with my sister first. Sigh.

Ugh. I am glad you were able to get away last night, at least.

I am working from home. which is considerably not fun, but better than going into the office. and since it is all just responding to IMs and Skype calls from Israel, it is not too demanding.

Also ugh, but not as ugh. I agreed to do a fair amount of work this weekend, because I knew I could do it all at home, which is much nicer.

Yesterday was pretty much a 9 to 5 for me. I keep forgetting that. A couple times a month, one of my weekend days will be eaten entirely by krav. And I teach on both days, so it's not like I get a day off.

I'm not complaining--I'm loving teaching more than ever, and even though I'm back up to 5 hours a week, it doesn't feel like as much work as before. And yesterday's groundfighting instructor seminar was incredibly fun. I haven't laughed that much in a learning setting in a long time.

Unfortunately, the nerve block had another quantum weakening yesterday. I need to not let the meta of that get me down. A doctor at krav suggested botox--it can work for three months. I'd been very against it beforehand, but having had a week of almost normalcy is very seductive. Plus, it was an occipital nerve block--the botox shot wouldn't be in my face.

Any maple syrup experts out there? I swear the Canadian stuff tastes way different from the Vermont. It's perfectly possible I'm hallucinating it--can anyone else verify?

here's a great recap of the State of the Union, which has an obvious Dem bias, but given how face-slappingly poor it was this year, this is really very funny.

AOL and Yahoo to start charging companies to send their members mail that bypasses spam filters.

I'm the only person here who's awake. This is so... odd. I guess I'll grade one more paper and the zip off to my class.