Red’s

Just not feeling very communicative lately. I’ve had a headache for nearly a week, and when I looked in the mirror this afternoon I noticed that my face is swollen. Great, just in time for Thanksgiving I get to look like a turkey.

Got a letter from the University saying that I qualified for Magna Cum Laude. I coulda been a summa… but my grades from twenty years ago weren’t that great. Too bad they still count. I didn’t really need them, it’s just that it saved me taking the SAT again. If I would have known that I’d do this well, I would have reconsidered that expediancy.

Now, I’ve got a cold to look forward to. I can feel it coming on, slow but sure. Yuck. I could blame it on Rex; when he called from California he said he had a cold. I wonder if viri can travel across wires? It seems like a nice theory, anyhow.

Tomorrow night, I’ve got to lead a seminar on material I really don’t respect all that much. Funny how things change. In high school, I was defending Marx and now I’ve got to point out some difficulties with Marxist educational theories. I’ve been laughing at the irony that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Marxism has become firmly entrenched in educational practice— training people to become better producers for the capitalist economic system. There is just something decidedly odd about that.