On the up side, I haven't seen any cockroaches at all today. So maybe yesterday's swarm was just some weird anomaly. The neighbors' cockroaches on vacation, or something. That's probably too much to hope for, but dammit all, I'm going to hope for it anyway.

On the down side, I am falling badly behind on the comic book work I promised to do for SCIC. An hour of free time a night is just not enough time to make significant progress on this project, especially if I want to retain even the barest semblance of a life. Which I do.

On the up side, I've somehow managed to gracefully wriggle out of doing any work at all for the school newspaper during my co-op term. So yay me.

On the reading about science on the bus for lack of anything better to do side, I find it really interesting that Einstein's model of space-time has come to be known as the theory of relativity, despite the fact that Einstein himself thought it should be called the invariance theory, a name which has pretty much exactly the opposite connotations. Perhaps this is because at the time the theory was being popularized, English-speaking society was more interested in moral and artistic relativity than in unshakable absolutes and invariant laws? I don't know. In fact I don't even know when it was that said theory first started being widely popularized,or whether it's only called theory of relativity in English, or any of that history of science stuff, so I'm basically just making stuff up here. Still, it's kind of a neat disconnect.