Forgot to say Hi Ebbie, Bobert--all the voices that as I feel more and more upset and uncomfortable, feel like my best friends. Thanks for being alive.

   I still think it's fine to oppose AA. I'm tempted to post what I think are good reasons to, instead of this fragrant puddle of whitewash. The stuff above is like a box of assorted cookies in different shapes, that all taste just the same. I'd be embarrassed to admit how upset I am at what seems to be a group rationalization coalition.

   It's weird that I of all people would want to defend consideration of athletics. I just didn't want to pay that university fee for it, since I've never watched a ball game in my life. But there's something to it, isn't there? Force of will, animal beauty, the poignant determination to achieve something that doesn't matter at all. The very idea of a university seems to call for considering it, even if you or I personally don't care. If you can't recognise the value of something so old, so imbedded in western culture, woven into the meaning of Hamlet--how far can you recognise actual diversity, and respect different kinds of intelligence?