On to RA-dom, university-style

At noon I met with GS to start my "fall term" RA assignment: researching a broad range of militant extremist movements. We came up with a matrix by geographic region and ideological bent. Later I managed to render our livingroom relatively tidy, which feels blissfully relaxing, though the Human Entropy Machine has already started to clutter it up again. We had Mexican food from Chapala with R's dad, in town for the memorial service for one of his closest friends. And now I'm pretty sleepy, though my energy level today has been the best it's been all week, despite the fact that three types of tree pollen are now circulating.