iraq

a short digest of news reported today:
1. we turn over power to a former baathist general who marches in his original uniform. just picture this after WWII in germany.
2. the photos of soldiers harrassing prisoners. hmm...this is going to define this war. vietnam had baby killers...this one...lady soldiers making fun of naked iraqis. man...i have a feeling this war was started for and by late nite comedians.
3. macedonia...police here staged a firefight and shot 12 pakistani illegal immigrants. these guys were not just shot by mistake...they were lured into a trap. Why?? well...they wanted to curry favor with Uncle Sam. I wonder whether Macedonia was mentioned by the president as one of his "allies".

Read this and u know why we are where we are. Folks, in this war we have lost their hearts and our minds.

Reading: Paris 1919, Guns of August. WWI books. Coincidence. But the first few pages of Guns of August scared the shit out of me. Reminded me of a few characters currently ruling certain parts of this crazy world. Paris 1919 is more like a textbook, but very detailed and nicely written.

my masters work might produce 2 papers. at least one got confirmed. good.
phd work: starting to look ominous. too much to know before i start. lets see how it goes

went to the main stacks of the library here. got completely lost till i found an elevator to get me out of there. this place rocks. 11 levels , all deserted. no sense of order anywhere. books lying on the floor. looks more like my apartment than an univ building. best part is the moving space saving shelves. the safety features on these are sketchy and non intuitive. i really believe it is possible for someone to get stuck between these (-:

another cool feature of use: there are small cubicles with doors that lock from the inside on all of these deserted floors. possible to sit here and go unnoticed for ages (-:

and the whole place is creepy. challenging someone to spend the night on one of the upper levels alone with scarce light will be a cool dare!

quote for the day: Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.--attributed to martin luther

day 2

masters over. phd work begins. this promises to give me sleepless nights. more than the ms work.
btw ....heres a nice one i heard today:
"whats the speed limit of sex"
--68...at 69 u turn around

day 1
submitted my masters thesis today. so exhausted that i dont even feel like enjoying it. lessons learnt:
1. never ever try to fight the university bureaucracy. submit. resistance is useless
2. never underestimate humankind's potential to stay without sleep.

read an interesting quote today: if it aint broke, fix it till it is!! thats me (-:

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