as professor burke notes over at easily distracted, april is indeed the cruellest month. so cruel for me, in fact, that i'm having a tough time reading the news...

i am so close to done with my class work that i can taste it...the real shock in all this is that being done with class work (papers and exams and readings and such, i mean) doesn't mean i get to take a break, this time around. honors is waiting...and i could probably study twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, until my honors exams start on may 8th, and still not feel ready.

alas.

in a brief nod to the existence of the outside world, i would like to point out that john ashcroft is oh my God, such a bastard. one of these days i'm going to write a long, honest assessment of the many ways in which both sides in the conflict over the iraq war were (are, will continue to be) mistaken. at the moment, lacking the mental energy for such an endeavor, i'm focusing on "smaller" issues. the article here talks about how illegal immigrants (asylum seekers, even) may be held indefinitely without bail even when they are not suspected of ties to terrorist organizations. which, come to think of it, is not particularly small.