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Some people heard me say recently that I wanted to "Go to floor." They asked me what the hell I meant. Well, here is what I mean.

My bed

Anyway today was my quasi-last day in Syracuse. In reality I will be here for more time, depending on if/when I actually sell my car. MaryKate called me tonight and said she wants to buy my car, though she is the fourth person to say so in the past few days so I am not keeping my hopes terribly high (no offense to MK, just that I can't depend on money that I don't have in my pocket, and I'm a bit jaded after the last three people :)).

So...tomorrow *might* be my last day in town. I hope.

This afternoon I went down to M-Street for some grub and decided to add some pictures to my meta gallery.

A picture of a girl taking pictures

Another one

I think photographers often think that they are not a part of their environment, that they're just these observers unstuck in time. They're not. Okay, so I admit, I read Slaughterhouse Five today so I have a few things on my brain.

Tonight I went out for late-night dinner with Megan and Toni. It was unintellectual but unboring. And Toni got a kitten, which is fun to torment. Not as much fun as Annie's kitten though.

I'm hoping that everyone will join me tomorrow in a media blackout. I will not be reading the paper, listening to the news, watching TV (though I have not watched TV in over 6 months so that isn't very hard) or even reading internet sites (no news sites, no blogs, no nothing. Not even the funny one in which you slap a monkey). I will not even be reading my email. Not that I could anyway, there was a huge power failure on campus tonight so none of the mail servers are up there. "Why not read your email?" I hear people asking. Probably because I got a spam on the 10th announcing 10% off the prices of computers at a certain online store, in commemoration of September 11th. Am I the only person that thinks that's just sick? "Lots of people lost their lives, let's celebrate with deep deep discounts! Be buying, people! What are you, a terrorist!?!"

My rant will go up on the 12th, though I fear it's stupid and has probably been said before, only much more eloquently than I am capable of with my lack of language.

Posted by reid at September 11, 2002 12:56 AM | TrackBack