The Blue Item

Spent the whole Saturday finishing a social studies presentation. Topic: China censoring the internet. Real laugh. I could have gone with Schnurzel to Koksi’s party, or joined André for Andi’s birthday pizza dinner and then a show in Landsberg—apparently André’s sister Ilka was going to be there, and he’d been hyping her up as genuinely unhinged in the best possible way. Instead I sat in front of my Mac writing about Falun Gong, Yahoo!, and Shi Tao.

By late evening it had gotten to be too much, and after almost a week of abstinence I gave myself a small World of Warcraft run. Nobody from my group was online, but before I knew it I’d been pulled into a four-hour instance run. At least I walked away with a decent blue item.

Now it’s back to Keynote, back into the murky intrigues of Chinese internet censorship. The presentation won’t write itself.