I still don't get the concept of drinking 'til you're plastered, especially not on a routine basis. It bothers me that really cool people by day can turn into drunken people with no personality and no motor skills. There is now this vomit in a public place that its generator is in no condition to clean up, but would be really gross for passers-by to have to come across tomorrow morning and unfair for the maintenance staff to have to deal with. So I feel slightly obligated to help clean it up. I'm such a sucker, but maybe today I won't be. Maybe today I'll go immure myself in one of the basement seminar rooms and study for tomorrow's midterm.

This rant isn't solely triggered by today's experience, but since I haven't been on campus for many weekends since fall quarter due to ultimate and OEP, it'd been pushed to the back of my mind until now. Whatever floats their boat [race—hee], I guess. I'm going to go study now. But not til I procrastinate some more by rambling on...

I've been thinking about revamping this site to be a little more welcoming to new readers. I like starting with the "about" pages when I stumble upon some complete stranger's site via the spider's web of links that abound between weblogs or online journals. When you come to my page, conversely, there are only two (well hidden) places when you can find my most commonly used first name, let alone any instance of my full legal name. Then again, I think I'd have trouble capturing my own personality in a one-page biography. I kind of like the idea that I can only be defined by some combination and/or balance of these thousands of words and moods and events and ideas.

It's pretty ironic that all of this writing on this page is about the webpage itself. I'd been reading some (online, of course) articles which attempt to formalize the whole blogging phenomenon, which naturally led me to start reading some more blogs. Some of the "reigning" blogs such as evhead seem a bit soulless to me as of late, mostly because, while they have nice designs, there's no longer much interesting, original content. It's mostly limited to links to other sites, or comments on the site's own design or architecture. I'm slightly miffed that my very linking to that site will, however infinitesimally, increase its Google power rankings. But oh well.

Time to go study for the midterm. Funny, my having midterms while most normal people are in the realm of "finals" and "moving out." I think I'm not even jealous, because the whole craving-to-be-outta-here feeling is still overridden by the whoa-exciting-new-quarter feeling.