Telecommuting, I built a phat Apache with PHP and MySQL support (among other things) for a secondary Web server for the Daily Jolt. Don't get the wrong idea: I'm not an employee yet, and I'm still in Cleveland. This is just standard contract work that happens to be for the company I'm hoping to work for in Boston.

I watched ”Girl, Interrupted” and was “Guy, Unaffected”. No character development occurs: the girl leaves the asylum no wiser than when she entered. The crushing lack of plot is slightly obscured by a recurring sexual relationship that illuminates little about the protagonist and, fittingly, leads nowhere. Random (though surely heartfelt) outbursts from the ward's occupants substitute weakly for meaningful, long-range conflict. I left the theater moved only by the film's empty passage of time and the New England autumns — something about New England autumns never fails to render me moody and pensive — and went home full of the conviction never to waste a moment of my life, not inspired by the movie, but in reaction to the stupid choices of the main character and the time I lost watching her vapid story.

I was budgeted no money with which to purchase a new Phi Kap server. This puts a dent in most of my computer committee plans for the semester. Once I stop being passive-aggressive about it, I'll start thinking about creative ways to get the compute power I'll need to do the database and other projects.