Hear/Say

The last weekends of freedom are always heavily laden with nostalgia, apprehension… but a tiny dose of relief. Of direction.

This weekend, I enjoyed a bit of reading, hiked up to Bald Spot (somewhere in Issaquah,  I believe) for a lovely sunset, and visited the Sandpoint Seattle Public Library booksale, where I proceeded to loot the rest of the treasures for anything and everything:

 I bought an Illustrated Physiology book, describing each aspect of the body (chapters associate with different systems within the body– respiratory, circulatory, etc.) which was apparently used to assist physiology students with visualizing the body in its basic functions;

a semi-scientific/historical dinosaur book that comes with illustrations of dinos eating other dinos (yezzz!);

my friend bought a book depicting Hitler and his public life as the Nazi leader;

andI had purchased a large amount of sci-fi/fantasy (see: Piers Anthony, his Xanth series, David Eddings, his Belgariad/Mallorean series)… including the Illustrated Guide to Xanth.

Xanthians, unite!!!

It was a beautiful weekend. .. my roommate TARA and me had also visited a Halloween costume store; the season has people crawling all over brains/zombies/masks alike; and it was fun to dress up. Despite the fact that yes, we are 20/21 years old.

In news, though: the controversial debate over open internet policies continues as regulations over bandwidth use and/or network capacities clash with the idea of ‘net neutrality’. I feel as if I don’t understand enough tech-talk to support or oppose viewpoints on these subjects of capacity in terms of signal/bandwidth/networking, but the debates make me nervous never-the-less– especially in light of Comcast’s overwhelming presence in our media-mediated lives…

More laterz!!!

Gracie