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I had caesar salad and a salmon burger at the Grad Lounge while I read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. I have to give the presentation on Thursday which means I have to prepare, so I read the chapter on the semicolon - my subject - and now I'm going to do the power point slides for the speech. Am I truly of the Geek in presenting on a piece of punctuation? Probably, but we know my obsession with language. Last night, I thought about the fun fact that comic books from the thirties onto the seventies and eighties ended almost every piece of dialogue with an exclamation point ("!") because the printing process was so unreliable that if you used a period instead - it might completely disappear.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was really, really funny. Angelina Jolie was quite good in it, which probably means the end of the world, and Jude Law got to deliver some good lines. I also liked that both Sky Captain and Polly Perkins traded off on being incompetent, and that romantic relationship was actually backstory and gave the film the chance to look into the depth of it rather than a more traditional hollywood "will they/won't they" thing. It was a lot of fun. Plus, Giovanni Ribisi's character was utterly in love with Sky Captain (but who wouldn't be?).

Had lunch by myself, ran into Michael and menaced him with my awful garlic breath, stopped off to talk to Samara for a while on my way here. Samara's been working on a poem about us about guerrilla poetry. It feels me with desire. If only I had time to be more of a poet this semester. Instead, I have to encode it into my short stories.