back in the police state. the more times i come and go, the more life seems like one colossal joke, which i suppose is not the worst thing. have a lot of stuff to do, but everything is kind of interlaced like one giant LSAT logic puzzle where some events have to happen on certain days, some must precede others, but only on a saturday etc. also: frighteningly poor until my first paycheck comes in, which is not until the end of august. ugh.

have already begun to realize that folks here don't understand the concept of doctors who aren't medical doctors -- it's like minz's recent experience of no one knowing what an alumnus is, a hole in the web of knowledge that you can stick your finger through and wiggle. i really should have bought that phdcomics t-shirt that says DOCTOR on the front and OF PHILOSOPHY on the back. or one that just says YOU IDIOT. anyway, resolution #1 of living here is that i will save my high-blood-pressure episodes for the most dire of circumstances lest i end up being hospitalized with an aneurysm before hanukkah. to help cope, i shall hire underlings as soon as possible and make their lives a living hell. what goes around, etc.