Saw Richard Dawkins speak at the Chan yesterday. It didn't really wow me or anything - probably because I know most of his arguments by heart, and I've read quite a bit of his work. Kudos to him for not mentioning the flying spaghetti monster though. And he should really consider asking Al Gore's team to teach him some lessons on Keynote. His slideshow looked like it could've been made by 4-year-old secular humanists. Or something. It was a good talk all in all - typical charming, erudite, and serenely logical Dawkins. And I'm ecstatic I had the chance to see him in person. That's another thing off my do-before-I-die list, I guess.
Grabbed an early dinner afterwards: cheap and insidiously delicious Chinese food with C. I love C, I can't think of anyone else who can make venereal disease and poverty funny. (Because theyr'e NOT.)
Slowly resurfacing from the black hole that was finals period. It wasn't really a lot of work, to be honest, I'm just absolutely horrible with all that "studying" business. I squandered about a week and a half on odiously unproductive activities, and the rest of the time holed up in the library and at home suffering through the agonizing process that is death by paper/textbook.
And going to school with some 9 books on the European missionary movement in Africa and African Christianity (read: thesis shitfest)? Not fun.
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