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Okay so some observations on trying to curb my internet habit, meditate, face fears on the regular, not escape into cat videos and memes of Kim Jong Il looking at things.

It's been 10 days, and I have already learned a lot. Not about memes. I am behind on the following things that I randomly missed at various times last week.

So Reading Rainbow is being canceled after 26 years. That makes it one of the longest running children's shows in history, bested only by Mr. Rogers, and Sesame Street.

What's strange about the decision to cancel the show is that economics are only partly to blame. Another factor is that of shifting missions in educational TV. Essentially, Reading Rainbow taught kids the 'whys' of literacy, not just the bare bones of letters, words, commas and spelling.

I am going to call it the Taco effect. Which is to say, I am imbued with a hormonal capacity to sit on a couch on a rainy Saturday with my clean laundry still unpacked in it's bags, no groceries purchased and no thesis defense notes written, devouring The Time Traveler's Wife in four hours, and weeping about every 100 pages. That's a Saturday well spent. If you asked me I would say I *enjoyed* my rainy Saturday.

Once a month I'm an emotional masochist. That's the only explanation I can come up with.

Sum it up in point form:

• Finished written portion of thesis dropped it off at the office in 2 boxes and one internal mail service envelope for my committee. At the copy centre the very enthusiastic employee gave me a celebratory lollipop.
• Am still finishing the website part of the thesis, should be done tomorrow, working slower then a tortoise on Qualudes, would it be disingenious of me to say I just don't give a flying fig anymore. I don't know what magic part of my self I am using to do the last part of the work, but when it runs out I am screwed.