Naturally, it is far too soon to tell, but to riskily venture forth my neck: Pumpkins, it’s good to have you home again.

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The feeling that Thursday morning was more than a little weird. Ever since the morning after Colin and Nora’s wedding, and more strongly after leaving Hyde Park, I had a weird sensation of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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I’m kind of in a Shandyesque problem here… I’m getting caught up more slowly then the events actually happened. If I don’t pick up the past of posting and whatnot, then I’ll just fall progressively further behind. Some infinities are larger than others.

– Someonly leaked Tarantula by the Smashing Pumpkins. Some seven hours from now, I’ll be listening to it!

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Last season’s mulch has a whitish yellow fungus-type covering on it. What is this?

– NEWS OF THE WEEK –
The New York Times: White House Says It Will Move Quickly to Replace Wolfowitz.

The Silurians is in a sort of ascendence, in that it feels the most powerful, the most interesting and relevant right now. I’m still trying to finish the fifth revision of Hungry Rats, but I’m finding it very hard to concentrate.

So I finally decided to not attend the final commencement ceremony at the New School tonight.

It’s a complicated story, not very interesting in the details, but maybe I can sum it up in a reflective sort of way, and maybe even make a useful point at the end.

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Pope John Paul II

– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Cameroon.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
If you were allowed to establish your own degree program, nowhere in existence, what would it be and where would you establish it?

– ALMANAC SAYS –
Fickle drops sprinkle crops.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Amy S.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Annie, get your gun.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What would your perfect vanity plate say?

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Tarantula, arriving on Tuesday, May 22nd.

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