Yeah, I haven't really noticed much more drinking at Penn State, relative to the size of the school, than at any other school I've been at. There is a lot of drinking on football weekends, but a lot of that isn't students.

Anyone heard this:

Joe Paterno, not getting it.

"The kids that were victims or whatever they want to say, I think we all ought to say a prayer for them."—Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, on the child sex abuse scandal in which he is looking more and more like a knowing enabler for a child rapist. His former colleague Jerry Sandusky is charged with 40 sex crimes against boys, from 1994 to 2005. Paterno has not been charged with any crime. But he's out.

Yeah, I haven't really noticed much more drinking at Penn State, relative to the size of the school, than at any other school I've been at. There is a lot of drinking on football weekends, but a lot of that isn't students.

Oh, I believe that. What did shock me about that report was the volume of drinking that was described--the standard Saturday night out required a lot more alcohol than I ever saw in the early-to-mid 1980s. Things have changed since I was in college.

In other (embarrassing) news, I'm having my ass handed to me in first Words with Friends game ever. I'll just be over cradling my humiliation to my chest.

You should play with me: I lose to all Buffistas.

I just started playing WWF yesterday.

Anyone heard this:

Yeah, that was from last night, when he went out to talk to the students gathered in front of his house. He seemed to be really uncomfortable trying to talk about the abuse, like he didn't know what words he was supposed to use so he just kind of tried any words until something sounded OK.

Pretty much, he sounded mostly like you'd expect an 84-year-old man to sound when trying to talk about sexual abuse without having something prepared. His next sentence was something like, "Life can be difficult when ... uh ... certain things happen to you."

I hear a marching band.

I'm worried about the idea of adding Xanax. I have odd feelings about it, but what I waking up with this week is a full bodied anxiety attack.

Almost there on the request going up. Gonna get some Gatorade and curl myself up, maybe call home for a little.

a short blooper reel of astronauts tripping and falling on the moon.

Oh, ha! I wish there were audio to go with that.

You could just take the Xanax when you wake up like that, so you can get a little more sleep.

I was in the midst of an anxiety attack I knew the Ambien wasn't going to do much for when I went to bed last night, and then a cave cricket jumped on my face.

Bah. The announcement for our holiday luncheon just came out: $30 for contractors, at a restaurant known primarily for hosting buffets (and not for its food--volume over quality), plus a $25 gift for the white elephant game.

... I'm unimpressed. Maybe I can arrange to be out of town for some reason.