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Good morning, blogland! Hope you're all rested up after yesterday's festivities.

Chicago has been really weird lately, because I was given to understand that we don't have "spring". It's just not something that happens, or we schedule it for a Tuesday in March. We go straight from snow to seventy-five. And yet, all this week and last week it's been sunny and in the high fifties.

None of us are prepared to cope with spring. We have no clothing for this. I am a junkie for coats, I love coats, but I have my parka and leather jacket (too warm) and three or four hoodies (not warm enough) and thus I am reduced to wearing thermal shirts with oxfords, which let me tell you is not a fashion statement I especially aspire to.

Spring! Who the hell invented this? I'm writing a letter of complaint.

Had crazy dreams last night, the best of which was that I bought a bookshop from an elderly couple and was converting it into a living space. When I took down the bookshelves, I found the family had at some point covered the walls in HUGE intricate murals. Also, because it was a bookstore, people kept coming into my living room wanting to buy a book.

I'm sure Freud or Jung would have a field day with all this.

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There's new news on the internet!

thaddeusfavour linked me this morning to a study on librarians and their views on sex (in 1992, anyway). Inasmuch as studies can ever be considered accurate, it's interesting.

For the record, when I was working in the library as an undergraduate not only did I do it in the stacks but I walked in on someone else doing it in a study room. Literacy is hot, yo.

Things that are not hot: LJ's security holes, brought on by LJ's festering greed. Even if you don't care, you should have a look at this to make sure you've opted out.

I'm not really into the whole gaming scene beyond cursing my Wii Fit when I fall off it, but I do read Penny Arcade and they have a very interesting summation of a wank brewing online between Roger Ebert, who says "Video games can never be art because I don't know enough about them" and Kellee Santiago, who gave a TED talk that inspired his ravings and then responded with a remarkable amount of grace to his post.

I like video games and I believe they are a wonderful combination of visual arts and narrative storytelling. Even Tetris, which might be considered one of the most basic of video games, has that wonderful Russian theme to it, a sense of otherplace that you can get to if you can solve the puzzle. Legend of Zelda, which I have played in many of its iterations, is a masterpiece of both in-game linear and extra-game nonlinear storytelling, and the art is invariably exquisite for the technology of the age.

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Today is Administrative Professional's Day here in the US, where in Corporate America one of two things happens:

1. Our bosses spend one day giving us flowers, food, or shiny things so that we do not set them on fire the other 364 days of each year, or
2. Our bosses forget or are unaware of the day, allowing us to indulge the martyr complex that each Administrative Professional has installed the day they start the job.

BossBoss may have forgotten, or he may have just thought it would be weird for him to send me flowers, and let's face it, it would be. At any rate, he took me out to lunch instead. We have awesome lunches when we go out, because basically the only things we have in common are work and Doctor Who. And we talk about Doctor Who all the time at work, so we usually end up talking about totally random shit that the other person knows nothing about when we do lunch.

This time round he told me about the Navy SERE training he took; in SERE training, you are dropped off in the middle of nowhere and have to make it through the wilderness to a checkpoint. This would be hardcore enough, except for one other thing: your instructors are hunting you.

I, in return, told him about People Who Are Wrong On The Internet. Well, I've never been hunted in the wilderness.

Anyway, it was nice, but I've forgotten how much food people eat in restaurants, because I rarely go to restaurants. I eat quite small lunches generally, so the club sandwich and fries put me in a food coma for half the afternoon. Totally worth it, though.