Advanced Personhood? I'm still a Beginner!

Well, I slept through my alarm this morning, and woke up to find that the Weather Channel's prediction of "Some Flurries-1 inch" had become "Heavy Snowfall-3 to 5 inches-roads terrible." It took me 30 minutes to get from the Hotel to my office. You might say, "Wait a minute! That's not bad! I drive farther than that each day!" Bear in mind that the Hotel is literally across the street from campus, and (on days with better weather) I've walked from the Hotel to my office in about 20 minutes.

Now that I'm actually in the office (all I have today is a meeting with a student and the final pedagogy seminar ever!), I have a pounding headache. Over the weekend, I managed to walk backwards into the ceiling fan in the guest bedroom. At the time, it didn't hurt so much, probably because a few minutes later my 3-year-old nephew tried to tackle me while I was sitting on the floor and did a picture-perfect Guillotine Knee Drop into my groin. That pretty much allowed me to ignore any other aches or discomforts for about 15 minutes.

Anywho, all that aside, last night I watched Dimitri Martin's new stand-up comedy special (the hotel doesn't get NBC, so I couldn't watch Heroes). Let me preface this by reminding you that Dimitri Martin is really, really funny. His stand-up style combines the monotone delivery of Steven Wright with the use of a large drawing pad full of pseudo-props (I'm not sure who to credit the drawing pad with - I've seen Zack Galifianakis use one too). Martin's recently been on the Daily Show as a 'trendwatcher' - his segment at Ohio State where he set up an extracirricular deathmatch tournament was awesome. Plus, he's really, really funny:

"There was this real nice lady at the store yesterday. She told me, 'If
you need any help, I'm Jill.' I thought, 'Wow, I've never met anyone whose
identity was conditional.' If I didn't need help, would she be Mike?"

Admittedly, part of the reason I found this joke so funny was a recent discussion of logic loopholes in everyday conversations over at Kurt's Nightmare. It's also funny because I just got done reading 50 poorly written papers, but I think it's funny anyway you look at it.

Anywho, after watching Dimitri for a little while, I noticed something strange. Admittedly, had I been 1) not exhausted and 2) not trying to also read a book for class, I might have noticed earlier. The entire hour-long special was sponsored by Microsoft, and the only commercial breaks were a series of short fake PSAs for the Institute for Advanced Personhood, a complicated advertisement for Microsoft's new OS, Vista. I don't know if I can blame Dimitri Martin for selling out. Lord knows I'll be happy to sell out at the first opportunity.


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