cinco de freakin' mayo

... on which I am doing absosmurfly nothing. Oh wait, I just got up to turn off the hallway light. Electricity takes oil. Also I am listening to a playlist. I might make a cd. I might make it tonight. I also might take a bath, but I probably won't because it's too ... complicated. Same for playing the guitar.

Neil came home between news shows. I like him. I wonder what the inside story is on Porter Goss's resignation. I wonder who will replace him. I wonder why Ambien causes people to "sleepdrive." I read today that the lead singer of Joy Division, Ian Curtis, had epilepsy. He had tonic-clonic (grand mal) and also absence (petit mal) seizures, and sometimes would experience them onstage. FYI, the melody line for Jason Collett's "I'll Bring the Sun" sounds exactly like that of New Order's "Age of Consent," which is why I will put them next to each other on my special, special cd.

Also tonight I learned that more than 300,000 have been killed in the Darfur conflict. What is our presence there? Let me find out.

NYT: KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 5 — After a frenetic all-night negotiating session, the Sudanese government and the largest of the Darfur rebel groups signed a hard-fought peace agreement on Friday intended to end three years of misery and bloodshed in Dafur. But two much smaller rebel groups angrily demurred, leaving open the possibility that they would threaten the accord.

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Robert B. Zoellick, the American deputy secretary of state who helped drive the parties to this partial victory, cautiously applauded the agreement, but also acknowledged that the failure to win unified support "is a reality and poses dangers."

I don't know what our presence is. Maybe mostly charity organizations.

Today I was thinking about doing one of those 6-week "boot camps," where you go to the gym some 5 days a week and run and lift and work out to the point of almost throwing up. It would be fun to build muscle because I don't have much. It also would be fun to make quilts or paint. I would like to take a class. I would like to sing in a chorus. I would like ... to do something besides go to work and come home and sometimes run errands. I like to be outside. The sunshine makes me so happy. All day long I was happy. Hey, I just noticed a typo in the New York Times! D'oh!