I, Muehlenhaus. U, Riedermaus.

Lost is going off the deep end and it is taking my sanity with it. Adam has a stellar theory about why people heal quickly on the island -- see his comment underneath my previous entry. I have to think about this... blowing my mind.

The morning has been chaotic! My TA called in sick for lab today, which in general would not be a big thing, but I have to teach at a different university during lab; so I cannot cover for him. After much scrounging and several frazzled emails, a colleague of mine agreed to show up and make sure no one walks out with computers or anything. Still, it has resulted in my morning being spent on upgrading a Moodle site and sending out mass emails to different students with different directions. It is madness!

I'm not complaining. I love the cartography class probably more than any other I have ever taught. They are making stellar maps and I am proud of them. It's hard to get as stoked about your students memorizing states and capitals as it is to get exuberantly happy when you see that they are beginning to design great looking maps!

But I was going to write a cover letter for a job today, and that has gone down the drain. Tomorrow's lecture still needs to be finalized for Cartography and Friday's Human Geography lecture needs to be created from scratch. I will have my work cut out for me. I blame Chris Matthews -- I was up way too late watching election coverage.

It is getting old quickly. I don't really feel invested anymore, which is probably the result of a successful battle of attrition by Hillary Clinton. I just know I will never vote for Hillary Clinton; so if the Democrats nominate her, they lose this moderate's vote. Everything about her campaign reminds me of why I couldn't vote for Al Gore in 2000 and abstained altogether -- the Clinton legacy is brutal, corrupt, and merely power hungry. In hindsight, I wish I would have known how separated Gore was from the Clintons -- notice he hasn't taken a side in this event yet. I would have voted for him, but he won Pennsylvania anyway; so I don't feel too bad. It wasn't like I was voting in a state he needed to win (e.g., his home state of Tennessee where he lost). But the point is, the Clintons are pretty evil. I am not willing to vote out one evil President to install the other dynastic option. I would rather have a John McCain. I want to see what happens when he has a stroke in office and his evil side-kick (read: mean looking wife) takes over. I can only imagine how surreal this might get. It will be like when Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated, except instead of someone promoting world peace you will have an evil step-mother at the helm.

I'm not even making sense. Back to my work. But I couldn't resist a little political commentary today, now that my readership is up to four-and-a-half people a day. Ha!

Estonia makes up an insane proportion of that 4.5 too. We'll award Estonia 2.5 delegates to 1.5 delegate for everywhere else. But beware of the superdelegates, Adam!