update

I know I've been neglecting this thing these last few days, but it's the end of the semester and everything is coming due at the same time. Like Thursday and Friday I had papers due in two classes, economic history class and contemporary political issues. So if anyone needs to know something about the origins of the industrial revolution and why Harvard professor Stephen Marglin is kind of a jackass, economically speaking of course, just ask. Otherwise I could explain a crazy theory of why political passions are on the rise.

In other news, I'm not getting much sleep because of these projects. I also have to give a presentation on Monday about whether or not religious wars are on the rise, and for the next 48 hours, except for a few hours of sleep, I should be doing nothing but reading, and hopefully writing at some point. So that's not really other news.

In real other news, we started signing up for classes today. As with last semester, it's a complete disaster since the online registration system is such shit. It's not just a French thing though, although that's probably part of it, because I know of one American university that uses it too. You can't see when the hours for any of the classes are until you actually start signing up, so juggling your schedule is a nightmare. Then, only a certain number of spots are open at a time, and the administration has to open up more, seemingly randomly, so the only way to get the schedule you want is to get lucky at the beginning, or sit there for 5 hours hitting 'refresh' trying to get the classes you really want. Fortunately there's no competition for most of my classes, but half of them didn't have hours listed, so trying to choose my language classes, currently completely full, was a mess.

What else is going on? I'm thinking Muslim protesting around the world need to chill out. Check out what has gotten them all worked up: political cartoons of Muhammed [skip over the diatribe at the top to get to the images below]. And the quote on CNN from the State department is just great. We can invade a country and piss off a ridiculous number of people, in addition to killing a bunch, but a few Danes exercizing freedom of expression that bothers some Muslims isn't cool: "In Washington, the State Department criticized the drawings, calling them 'offensive to the beliefs of Muslims.'" Because killing their asses apparently isn't offensive enough. This one guy I read about says he's just waiting for the newspaper to be shut down, like Denmark is Saudi Arabia or something.

What the hell is going on in the world today?