No doubt, this could be the least coherent journal entry I write. It's 12:30 on Friday, and I'm just getting back from work -- which started at 8:30 yesterday morning, Thursday. Granted, I had a couple of beers with a colleague after work, so that accounts for a couple of hours not officially working. Still, I'm just now getting home...

I stayed late at work today -- I'll say today because there's been no sleep in-between now and when I went to work last -- because Kevin Phillips, the best-selling author of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush lectured on Wealth and Democracy, starting at 7:30pm.

I actually had to help support the event. Turnout was overwhelming, and since we anticipated it, Mike Schmidt (the co-worker I later went out for drinks with) and I had to set up videoconferencing units which would broadcast the event to spill-over rooms in the same building. After eating a nicely-catered meal from the Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill, we spent the rest of the evening setting up a/v equipment which would record for posterity and provide sound and picture to those who were unfortunate to show up late and not get a seat in the main hall. Mr. Phillips was/is a good speaker, and his speech deserves mention in a more sober journal entry.

Everything went as planned. The talk was great and there was much-appreciated Bush-bashing (from a self-proclaimed Republican, none-the-less.) After it was all over with and done, Mike and I went out for drinks at Hel, probably the coolest social club in Chapel Hill, where we had two beers apiece and ample conversation. If I weren't already dead and a little less on the two-sheets side, I'd attempt a summary of what we talked about...

Okay, enough. Z-time.