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I got to have dinner at Portofino's last night! I was invited to have dinner with one of the speakers from the Patterson school lecture series. Very cool, and kind of an honor to be asked, since there were only 3 students there.

Came home and wrote a paper. Spent this morning trying to chop it to fit the maximum length while simultaneously adding in a bunch of info. :( Not a good paper.

Adopted some Easter eggs, just because.

Quotation

'Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worship, I am very low church. The temples and the graven images are of no interest to me. The superstitious mammetry of a bourgeois obsession for books is severely annoying. Think how many children are put off reading by prissy little people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that books should be "treated with respect". But when are we told that words should be treated with respect? From our earliest years we are taught to revere only the outward and visible. Ghastly literary types maundering on about books as "objects". . . . A book is a piece of technology. If people wish to amass them or pay high prices for this one or that, well and good. But they can't pretend that it is any higher or more intelligent a calling than collecting snuff-boxes or bubble-gum cards. I may read a book, I may use it as an ashtray, a paperweight, a doorstop or even a missile to throw at silly young men who make fatuous remarks. So, think again.'

~ From Stephen Fry's The Liar

Which reminds me, I've got some books I'm getting rid of. Anybody know of a bookstore that'll buy used books, rather than just trade?