Over the break, I worked diligently at distancing myself from the intricate dementia and responsibilities of being a student/teacher/reader/writer/closet human. And now for something completely the same. Second semester is already feeling a lot like first semester, which felt an awful lot like this: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27794. In the words of Chris Clemens, video game scholar and neo-beatnik, "it happens to everybody but you can't really explain it properly to somebody who doesn't understand". Hmmmm. Hyper-reality has never felt more omnipresent.