There's a half-hour left in my day, and I'm too fried to start reading a new paper on a new subject, so instead I'll kill some time by informing you all of my rather pedestrian weekend.

Friday night: Jeremy, Adrian, Garrick, and TK came over. Jeremy at long last brought over his Xbox so I can watch DVDs without the intermediary of a password-locked laptop. Why Charles finds it necessary to password-lock his personal Mac laptop is a bit of a mystery to me, but hey, different strokes for different folks. We played a big ass 6 player game of HeroClix, in which my Doctor Octopus was beaten to death by Professor X, who was in turn savaged by Doc Samson. If Drs. Doom and Strange had been there, it would've practically been a conference.

Saturday: Woke up damn late, bummed around all day playing Neverwinter Nights. It turns out the best way to beat dragons as a druid is to spend all your spell slots buffing up your charmies. Claw/claw/bite/wing/wing/tailslap is less impressive against a bull's-strengthed, bark-and-stone-skinned brown bear, dire tiger, and halfling rogue. After missing lunch with Greg, I had a cold chicken sandwich, some Indian leftovers, and a couple beers, and watched my Netflix'd Deadwood DVD. Its a pretty good series; the dialogue has a very Shakespearean quality about it, and I appreciate the almost complete lack of background music. I dislike it when TV shows try to dictate how I should feel about a situation, usually through music or a mother-fucking laughtrack.

Sunday: Woke up just regular late, dropped a couple hundred bucks on apartment essentials at Kmart (vacuum cleaner, tape measure, garbage cans, paper towel dispenser, etc.), and checked out a diner in the area for dinner. Well-priced (partially because the waitress forgot to charge us for dessert), decent food, open 24 hours: these are all virtues I can get behind. I don't really see myself going back there for lunch or dinner again, but if I happen to be hungry at 4 am, it may be seeing some more business. After dinner, I watched my final Netflix'd DVD, The Corporation. It was interesting; I wouldn't recommend watching it without a little economics under your belt, though, so you can appreciate the bullshit they spew about how bad it was to fence in "the commons." For thems that don't knows, the commons were the lands commonly held by a community in the middle ages, which everyone was free to use for grazing. Since no one owned the land, everyone ended up over-utilizing it and gradually the land became worthless for grazing. This is the nominal example of what economists call "the tragedy of the commons": public goods are over-used compared to the social optimum. Another enjoyable part was when they sympathize with an activist exulting about how the people rose up, and for a while, there were no police, no military, no governor, just "the will of the people." Yeah, isn't mob rule swell?

If you're still reading this, you must be really, REALLY bored.