Man, at least this table is super clean

Spent the day as follows:

Phone calls/e-mails to arrange my troubled academic affairs. There was a moment of comedy when, shortly after I left voicemail for Stony Brook administrator Dr. Peter Baigent, he called me back promptly and I couldn't manage to depress the appropriate keys to answer my phone.

Cleaning the apartment. It's a job with multiple stages. Maaan, that table, under that table, the walls near that table...that whole area code is tops in neatness. Also did some dishes.

Considering problems facing the Stony Brook Press. I mailed a rambling brainstorming missive to the editorial board about recruiting and retaining new members for the upcoming semester. Planning some things I'd like to write aboot, principle among them a series of feature pieces on planned student life/activities to be published before they occur so readers can act on them by attending events thus described. That ought to give some newly recruited members something to do.

Watching Game Four of the Sox-Yanks ALCS on DVD. My DVD player was all wierd at first, it was super skippy at the top of the show. I think the disk is fine, so I dunno what to think. It settled down like D. Lo. Kevin Millar doesn't get his props for turning Mariano and the Yankees back into pumpkins at midnight on October 17, 2004 with that leadoff walk that started The Greatest Comeback Ever. Best part of this game I forgot about: when ARod struck first for the Yankees with the two-run homer, and the Sox fan outside the ballpark threw the ball back in. Then Johnny Damon gets the ball off the centerfield grass and throws it out of the stadium and back to the street. Then somebody throws it back into the stadium, and an umpire has to pocket it. That was a magic moment, with the Sox having just fallen behind in the ultimate do-or-die game, of fun-lovin' high spirits for both the players and the fans. Watching it again I feel genuinely sad about the Damon free agency loss for the first time. It's the seventh inning now, Keith Foulke just went in. I don't know if I want to finish this game unpaused or go get some dinner / make some phone calls.