1. The medieval writers really knew how to ask how to get out of jail. Typically, after writing a few hundred or thousand lines, or even a whole book like Sir Thomas Malory did, they will say, "Oh, and pray for me who's in jail." Sometimes the entire story is about being in jail, as with Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae. And sometimes the story incorporates some fugitive tinge, as the hunter who kills the deer hunkers down and hopes the king's men don't find him poaching. I don't know what to make of it.
2. Writing about video games is not nearly as fun as playing them. It's not bad, mind you... and I have lots of things to say, but it's like speaking something I love in a different language, there's something incongruous to it. This is one reason why I'm a medievalist, because I find I can talk about old poems without getting bogged down in sentences like, "Thus, a complex mathematical system simulates a dynamic environment through these functional systems."
3. The irony about complaing about a forgetful professor in a student evaluation is that the odds are s/he will forget the student evalutation forms.
4. I'd better stop procrastinating and get back to work.
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