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-Critique of Pure Reason quote: "Thetic is the term applied to every collection of dogmatical propositions.", 263-

Lovely little nostalgic dream last night. I was at my grandparents' house, getting ready to go swimming, which I'm rather fond of but generally unable to do due to the lack of a pool nearby (sound of agents storming in to revoke my GDDoD citizenship). My grandparents have a community pool! When I was a wee munchkin, I would clamor to go EVERY day when my family visited. Well, anyway, in the dream there were some slight difficulties, as the water oddly cut off (with a sulfurous smell) partway through my shower, then we had to wait a long time to finally leave for the pool, and I read a children's book sitting on the ottoman (n.b. the leather ottoman which DOES NOT EXIST in my maternal grandparents' house, but in my ama and ankong's old house... in case you're wondering, those are the formal Chinese titles for grandparents -- I use them, handily, to distinguish between my maternal -- Caucasian -- and paternal -- Fujian Chinese -- relatives), which was talking about sandwiches. Apparently the main characters were Aristocat-like spoiled animals and their mother had to convince them that the food was ok to eat, even though she was a little leery of it as well. So.

Spring is a busy time. You would think that with all the progress humanity has made, what with lights and bulk agriculture and the like, that we wouldn't still be stuck to the circadian rhythms of PLANTS. But we are. I think it stems slightly from the school schedule, which IS still stuck on the circadian rhythms of plants

{Sidenote: educators, if you're reading this, please consider switching to year-round! It really does work better, as I know from my brief but good experience with it in elementary school...}

that it was set to back when we WERE all family farmers and did need a bloated summer break and a crammy spring quarter as everyone tries to hurry up and finish before the schoolyear does. Anyway, I speculate that this has created a weird ripple effect, and like some delicate differential equation (such as the one modelling weather), the ripple has blown up into a vast, illogical spring season of doomy-doom even for adults, or should I say, small motile fruit trees?

That being said, qa aad7t will be on hiatus for the month of April. See y'all in May!

Reality check. And yes, I really do mean that.