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After months and months, today I had a doctors appointment to follow up on my sleep study from October.
The conclusion is that I do not enter REM sleep.
Apparently there is absolutely nothing that can be done about this.

So.. I just get to be tired forever. Hip hip hooray.

Josh if you don't think this is worth it, I'll pay-pal you the 5 bucks. But I think, in this time of uncertainty, this - and more of this - is exactly what we need.

Also, another for today:
via IM

Someone who feels the same way I do about dead Andrea Dworkin: The world of pornography is safe. Andrea Dworkin is dead. Huzzah.

Bitch was whacked. What space-travel for everyone was to the white-males of the 50s and 60s. Dworkiin-styled feminism and pursuits were for nascent, politically conscious types in the late-eighties, early nineties. By that, I mean it wa a fantasy, a rubes game, a failed strategy, an all too fantastic idea, eagerly embraced by the hopeful the very nature of which hope allowed them to be manipulated by other more powerful forces. She was a bad intellectual and bad for the movement. I don't give a shit if you're dead or alive. If your ideas cause more problems than they solve, your public life was a wash. Goodbye, Andrea, you don't even get a Walter Benjamin memorial JPG. That's how much you sucked.

April 12, 2005
New York, NY

I felt like enlightening myself tonight, so I went to a lecture at NYU by a pretty famous French intellectual, Didier Eribon. For anyone who cares, he is the biographer of and an expert on Michel Foucault, a pretty important French philosopher.

It was fairly incoherent for the most part, until Eribon, the speaker, points out a woman in the audience and starts raving about how surprised he is that NYU could invite a prominent homophobe to be a visiting professor.

He got back to his lecture, and things were going pretty smoothly until the question and answer session began. The woman he pointed out, some French sociologist, stands up and speaks her peace. This starts a verbal combat in true gallic fashion. Cries of "homophobe", "liar", and Eribon screaming repeatedly in French "did you or did you not call artificial insemination by lesbians the 'butchery of procreation?'".

Graduate students and professors were running around like it was a riot. It was fucking hilarious. The professors shut the lecture down with students behind me screaming about censorship.

I might be a geek, but that was fun.