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One of those days when I feel something working on me, something subversive, some
\nsneaky, inexact barrage on my immune system, I think. In non-medical
\nterms, it feels rather like viral agitation. It doesn’t have me,
\nyet. On top of that, the kids have two games tonight, and they’re spread a
\ngaping six-to-nine apart. First tip-off in seventy minutes; second one
\nthree hours after that. Where were my wise advisors when I volunteered for
\nthis<\/i>? Oh, and a men’s volleyball game at work tonight (which I’ll miss),
\nlots of informal meetings today, those inadvertent kind that shift from five
\nminutes into 45 minutes like hiccups in time. Where’d the day go?<\/p>\n

Looked in on Jerz’s Literacy Blog and found a link to an interesting essay on
\nfour
\ngood things about the proliferation of plagiarism<\/a> due to information-rich
\nnew media. The linked article is a bit dated, but it appears to be a work
\nin progress, and since I didn’t study it carefully (more of a casual
\nglance-read), I can’t say with certain memory when it was rendered into its
\nlatest form. The just-started discussion is interesting to me; it brings
\nup the idea of a system fortified by its own ruptures–a kind of immuno-scar
\ntissue theory of systemization. Plausible, problematic. More about
\nthis, perhaps, on a night when I don’t have to pace the sidelines of two<\/i>
\nseventh-grade basketball games. Also had a minute today to kick the tires
\nat Mike’s
\nwiki site<\/a>. Anxious to see what unfolds there. I looked in, but
\ndidn’t make any changes. Much like when friends of ours have newborn
\nbabies, I’m not first in line to hold them (er, the babies, not the
\nfriends). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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