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"perhaps there's a relation between your lecture and the amount of hot air in the room"
the moment of shocked silence that followed this comment was eventually broken by applause from the students of Dr. Kemeny's Contemporary American Religion class.

the funny thing is:
i think maybe Jordan wasn't joking.

well,
as quick as the snow came, it went. ...all except for that igloo which is now just a melted lump of mud and ice in the middle of Lincoln Lawn. it snowed almost a foot overnight on Saturday, and two days later it was nearly 70 degrees outside. i took a few pictures of the snow-covered trees, because we usually don't get snow this wet, so it's not often that we see so much weighing down branches. check the pics here.

currently playing:
The F Stop Blues, Jack Johnson live at Bonaroo. i've finally started uploading music from my external to Rog's tablet, and it's pretty refreshing to have something other than Damien Rice and Jars of Clay to listen to. Since I've been borrowing Rog's tablet I've listened Worlds Apart about 15 times. ...not that that's a bad thing...

taking a break from:
a ridiculous paper for Dr. Tilford. while both of the books (The Wannsee Conference Conference and the Final Solution: a Reconsideration by Mark Roseman and Fatherland by Robert Harris) were on interesting subjects and overall pretty good reads... I don't think they really have much in common, at least as far as a review essay tying together their main themes is concerned. The Wannsee Conference is a historical background on the events leading up to the secret conference where Nazi leadership planned how to commit mass genocide on 13 million Jews, and Fatherland is a "what if?" novel based upon speculation on what the Reich would be like in 1964 if Hitler had won WWII... While there was some commonality between the two, it is still irritating to have to treat a work of fiction as historical fact, as per Dr. Tilford's assignment. Since Dr. Tilford asked us to write on something that pertained to our specific major, I am writing on the nature of civil religion (as defined by Robert Bellah in Civil Religion in America) and how the tone set in the formation of the Nazi party evolved . sounds boring, eh? well, it is. at least right now, at 2am the day before the paper is due... anyways, I better write a bit more.