In a brief moment of perspective, I am amused by all of this annoyance at a bloody game. Still, the social event was unceremoniously cut off, so I will still remain grumpy about this.

You want I should send Paul to log on?

Sorry your plans got derailed, Pete. I'm sure there will be another occasion for frag-festage.

Katefate, hi! Glad to see you back!

Laga, check your email. If it's possible to push plans back, that would rock. If not, we're still game.

You want I should send Paul to log on?

Heh. No. I'm too tired now to actually enjoy it. There'll be another chance soon. Tell Paul his comic timing was good though. His jolly "Hi Pete" as he drove over my crushed body cracked me up.

Sorry your plans got derailed, Pete. I'm sure there will be another occasion for frag-festage

Yes, hopefully.

BTW, Kristin, is Drew really still playing Burnout or did he simply forget to log off Live, cos it shows him still active. That would be some crazy stamina.

That would be some crazy stamina.

That's my boy.

(IOW, yes, he is still actually playing.)

I really like driving games.

Okay, bed now.

And as usual, by the time I get back on line, everyone else is asleep.

Sorry about the fraggus interruptus, Pete.

The nanny has the flu, so I am the home with the Boo today. I am going to make next to no money this month.

Late shift! Hi Raq.

I'm up

Hey, it's katefate!

Well, I don't want to do philosophy as my career. Astonishingly far from it, really. I know that philosophy is lacking in utility, which is one of many reasons I don't want to try and pin a future on it; it's not really a thought about the future anyway, it's a much more limited-scope idea. It's something I would be happy doing for the year it would take to accomplish, and then, after that, I would hopefully have more self-direction about where I wanted to go next. Also, I doubt German would be involved; none of the course prospectum I looked at indicated anything about reading the philosophers in their original language, and it wasn't mentioned in the prerequisites either.

I think I want something challenging and meaningful, while not being life-fulfilling. I suspect I'm going to be faffing around for awhile yet, and a phi masters would just be a different aspect of that faffing.

SA, for what it's worth, I think you're approaching this in just the right way. When I look at the people in my life who most love what they do, and are most successful at what they do, the common thread I see in their lives is that they've always just done what they wanted to do, and then found more stuff they wanted to do, while they were doing stuff they wanted to do.

Off to read P-C's post. katefate's comment:

PC, you and Pam are my new OTP