What a day this has been….
February 14th, 2006Things have been very weird around here lately.
After weeks of lovely, almost-balmy weather, the Northeast was hit by a major blizzard with record snowfalls in New York city, and many inches here in Cambridge too.
I received my first-ever care package (birthday cum Valentine’s Day), a very unexpected and extremely delicious heart-shaped box of assorted dark chocolates from Fannie May confections. Thank you! I’ve eaten way too many of them already, as have all of my roommates 
Ryan and John are extremely chuffed at having the S*lient republish the Danish cartoons (of incitement-to-violence infamy). Woj and I were horrified, almost beyond belief. Ryan and I spent about two hours (from midnight to 2am) talking about respect and rights, rationality and reasonable expectations, restraint and responsibilities. I know what I believe, and I think I know what Ryan believes, and I don’t think there’s a good resolution, other than to say that Ryan’s beliefs are more immovable and sharply defined… which are characteristics I think are fundamentally problematic, in this case. I pray that nothing untoward comes out of this.
In two other unrelated incidents, certain people shocked me with what struck me as unbecoming behavior and/or attitudes. As usual, I’m always wrong, but that’s no surprise, in a sense.