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Just got back inside. Someone burnt some popcorn, turning on the fire alarm, necessitating an evacuation.

Actually, no. Three people had something burning in their microwave, and someone else burned something in the oven. All within the same short period of time.

A neighbor said that she was glad that it at least happened on a clear night in September than during a snowstorm during finals week in December. And that we all got to the right place! We were having an Optimistic Off, because the fire trucks hadn't gotten there yet.

I'm glad it was just a popcorn fire, because if it had been a real fire we'd all been screwed.

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And so, even though men are always inclined, while they are engaged in a war, to judge the present one the greatest, but when it is over, regard ancient events with greater wonder. Yet this war will prove, for men who judge from actual facts, to have been more important than any war before. - Thuchydides Book I of "The History of the Peloponnesian War"

It's very weird when reading a history of a war that happened 2,500 years ago sounds so similar to the one that's happening now. Except with the cognitive dissonance where the two are simultaneously going on at the same time, because the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem very far away. And at the same time the never ending wars are going on, Athens is stressed to the breaking point.

Then I think of a scholar a thousand years from now, crouched over a dusty book or whatever information is stored on, reading about now. Will they too look up from their work, and see the parallels of the same actions that happened in Athens, in the US, unfolding outside their window?

I wonder what they'd think of us.

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Watching the debate. I &heart; Barack Obama. *waves Obama/Biden 08 flag*



...P.S. Still open to being a mail order bride if Obama loses.