as expected, not bad

After a 3am bedtime last night, I clocked in today around one. A bit of a late start, in fact, the latest start I've had in awhile, but the day turned out quite nice. I started it off with a strong coffee and a bit later, a smoothie. My new roommate just bought a blender which might end up changing my life. I headed to the studio and continued the project which was put off for too long, but is moving along ahead of schedule. There's a show coming up at the end of February that I wanted to finish it for but I think I'll have it done before then, which would be wonderful. I may make something else for the show then too. Then, my pal ol buddy on the other side of the world (i.e. Finland) was on skype, so I got my fix of transatlantic chit chat about, among other things, politics. At this point, the feds probably realize that I'm not really worth the wiretap even though it's probably tempting. My friend (i.e. Kevin) also called me "weird" but I'm not sure why. I really don't think I am. But after I got over it, it was back to work and then on to a lecture by glib political cartoonist, Ted Rall. Swell cartoons, but the guy.... Anyhow, then a nice introductory hang-out over coffee with all my favorite Israeli and Palestinian expats. I should mention here that even though "the world was stunned" over Hamas' victory today (or rather yesterday), I'm not. I'll leave my theories to myself (for now). Hamas used to have a website but as far as I can tell, it's now defunct. I'm suspicious, they seem to be the type of organization that would want to keep their domain name current, so perhaps the Israelis (or the Finns) are up to something. Till that matter is resolved, perhaps The Palestine Information Center is a good source for news on that end. And what better note to end on than a word of congrats to Hamas.