All of my text books and school supplies have been bought, my classes are all paid for, and I've located all of the caffeine dealers closest to the Psychology department. Me, to school: Bring it on!

The bookstore allowed a microcassette recorder to be counted as school supplies and covered by financial aid, so I got myself a new tape recorder. Now I finally have a use for all of the microcassettes I liberated from the "toss" pile when my (former) office cleaned out the supply room a couple of years ago. Hooray for foresight! Okay, not so much foresight as packrat mentality and not being able to stand seeing perfectly good blank tapes get tossed in the trash just because nobody ever dictates anything anymore.

The grill in the student union was still closed and caged off, and I couldn't make out the menu from where I stood; but I saw coffeemakers, and what looked like a breakfast bar, so it looks like I'll be able to get both breakfast and coffee on campus. If it turns out to be awful, at least there's a Java Dave's close by.

In domestic news, Nibblet got her very first bath around 2:30 this morning after she accidentally fell in the toilet -- before I had a chance to flush it. The toilet freaked her out -- freaked me out too, because, ew -- but the actual bath she received immediately afterwards didn't seem to faze her too badly. Note to self: flush before standing up from now on.

How's about some links?

Just discovered the News & Oddities blog over at Buffy's Domain of Delight. She's reprinting the articles she finds -- some of which are pretty obscure and entertaining, as well as non-spoilerish -- directly to her blog. It may tread some murky waters in the swamps of copyright law, but it's awfully convenient.

Anatsuno pointed me towards an article over at Barbelith that she thought I'd find interesting: The Philosophy of Fan Fiction. What sets Dante and Shakespeare, both of whom have written derivative works about previously established myths, apart from the modern-day fanfic writer? Why is the latter so looked down upon? Why am I so embarrassed to tell people in the 3-D world that I write fan fiction, when some of my fanfic is the best work I've ever done? Deva's got theories. Go read them.