Yay I figured out how to get my posts to show up!
But I'm not going to write anything else right now except for that cause I'm on my roommate's computer and I don't want to get in the habit of blogging on her computer in case I ever write anything about my roommates and then they see it, and then it would just get messy.
Except for this: Georgetown obviously did not get the word that we have been scaled DOWN from an Orange Alert, because the first thing I noticed when I returned home from Minnesota at 3 am the other night was that we have decided to put barriers at the entrance to our school (we have a big "front gates") (also the reason #2 I am not using this computer is that while I was typing this sentence I accidentally changed the keyboard settings from English to Russian to Polish about 16 times in a row.)...anyways they put up these metal fences (dont know why they didn't close the actual gates...) in order to...i dunno, prevent a truck from driving in with a bomb and blowing up our precious statue of the founder of our school...? Cause I imagine someone delivering a biological agent would be on a moped, those things are all over DC. And they left plenty of space around this metal gate for mopeds to get through. But these things looked relatively flimsy, I bet a truck-bomb could crash right through them. And blow us up. Hey, besides, if it hits them and DOESNT go through, then it explodes right there. And guess what! I don't want that! That's right on my doorstep! Dammit, Georgetown, take down the fences! (Anyways, they have these thick non-flimsy metal posts they COULD bolt in the ground like they do all over campus, once I saw an SUV crush its fender on one and I rather laughed. CRUNCH! So I don't know why they paid probably $1000 or 2 to put up these other fences. I'm not deterred at all. By the way, Eliot, if you're reading this, please note that I am putting TWO spaces between EACH SENTENCE!!)

Oh, and this: I had Madsy's class yesterday, and she seems like a pretty nice person, actually, but she brought this entire entourage with her: two TAs, one person from her Georgetown office, and one person from her downtown office. Then we got an email from her today, only of course it was really from one of her office workers. So apparently their job is to attend her class and write emails pretending that they are from her. Hmmm. I could use a job like that. Also the class is open SPECIFICALLY only to undergrad juniors and seniors in the SFS, and there are I think 80 people on the waitlist one of the TAs said, but for some reason there were all these random middle-aged grad-students in the room. OK, fine, if you want to sneak in and pretend you're in the class, great, but c'mon people, let's be smart about it! They kept insisting on speaking up and shooting their mouths off. Jeez, it's not your class, shut up! (One was talking about how the Japanese economy should be a big concern to the US or something, since "she is a Japanese citizen, after all..." or something like that) Maybe they'll clear out next week. But I'm not telling my housemate's girlfriend that 'outside' people came to the class (or that we were invited for the last 20-30 minutes to ask Mads anything we wanted) cause she kept talking last semester how she wanted to take the class so she could "confront her" about Iraq sanctions. But she DID talk a little bit about the 9-11 Commission that's investigating people, including her, which was interesting, and she had some good points to make. Well that's all the end.