First things first -- why, you ask, do I have a picture of a kitten with a sniper rifle? Well, here's the story:

I decided one day, not long ago, that I wanted to learn karate, merely for the value of knowing self-defense. I had seen the LETU karate, but figured it wasn't of much value beyond being a quaint dance form of some type. As it turns out, a good 41 alum friend of mine (Gizmo!) is a brown belt and says it's actually quite useful for self-defense. And my roomie Pebble is in the class.

So I figured hey why not.

THEN

I signed up for it, and remarked to myself that this event warranted a change in my blog decor. So, in my quest for an interesting picture relating somehow to karate, I happened upon this AWESOME picture of a cat with a sniper rifle.

Completely off topic, yes, but oh so cool.

There you have it.

I'm now up to 17 hours of classes and finding myself precious low on time for my job. There's just no big blocks of time in my week any more.

And now a snippet from Literary Criticism.

Dr Watson> So, every bump on that graph represents a verifiable point in the plot? You can articulate, in MLA format, what every squiggle on that line means in an essay?

Me> Yes. Every bit of the graph means SOMETHING... we intend to trademark it.