do you have sex maniacs, schizophreniacs, or the astrophysicists in your family?

drworm is here, watching Eddie Izzard with Sammi in the living room while I work on my analysis paper on his laptop. We all are starting to smell because the hot water boiler for the entire building sprung a leak and there's no hot water for showers, but that's okay because none of us really care. (Apparently the showers in the pool locker rooms are open for cleansing purposes, but I'm not going down there because they're grubby and moldy and crawling with spiders.)

I'm doing this paper on thematic similarities and differences between Snow Crash and VALIS, and I'm having the usual problem I have with literary analysis, which is that I want to write everything at the same time instead of doing a nice, neat, linear outline and then following it. :/ and then, of course, I had to reread VALIS for the nth time and that's always a little bit crazy-making. [ETA: After outlining, convinced they're two sides of the same cosmic story. WTF. Wish I could send Stephenson a letter and ask him what he thought of VALIS, but he's a huge Aspie recluse and wouldn't answer.)

The paper is due on Friday at 5, and then I think we're going to spend the weekend just hanging out and ordering takeout and watching Man from UNCLE episodes and stuff. :) And then Monday it will probably be back to the grind, but that's okay, because Seth is going to be here for a few months and I only have less than a month to go in the whole semester.

zombie meme

You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have: one weapon, one song blasting on the speakers, one famous person to fight alongside you. (Weapon can be real or fictional; you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.)

Song: "Shut Me Up," Mindless Self-Indulgence, because it pumps you up and gives you energy. (Later to be switched to "Don't Make Me Kill You Again" by the Groovie Ghoulies if we get tired or bored.)

Cherry Darling from Planet Terror for both person and weapon. (I would also get an ice scraper. One with a really strong, extendable handle with a rubber gripper, and a really sharp, strong blade. Because I'm an ice scraper ninja.)

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In other news, I just put on the A/C for the first time this year.