Yesterday existed - haircut, class, work on the art website, wedding stuff - but today was the high point of the week at school. A Peachman Lecture on North to talk about the 'prospects of high speed shipping in the 21st century' with a professor from Cal Santa Barbara. This turned out to be quite a disappointment; the good professor hadn't done much other than determine that a conventional ship wasn't going to work, but his solution for improvements hinged on hydrofoils and polymer solution released along the hull at a rate of 18 tons per 5000 miles. I also got paid $15 to tell a computer which imaginary cell phones I'd choose from 25 potential lineups. In the late afternoon I ate a burrito and had a project meeting which mostly involved talking about the alarming developments on the H1-B visa front... all the news fit to print for the international students on my team and rightfully so. Then class, largely normal but remarkable in its concluding remarks about business ethics.

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