When people (mostly Amy, really) found out that I was going home to make cider over fall break, they were curious. Today, the curiousity ended with a refreshing breaktime snack of cider and doughnuts halfway through MO503. The deer apple, family cider mill, non-pastuerized blend whetted a half dozen whistles in the back row of the Michigan room and it was good.

Now it is 9 o'clock in the PM and I am multi-tasking like a madperson: career email, group email, group research, GSRA research, and blogging are all going on at once. It has occured to me that I may need to upgrade the RAM in my trusty hp nx9110 to keep up with the b-school pace of activity. Computers weren't designed with this level of student application loading in mind; NASA uses more power but they only run "MoonShotRocketGuide.exe" in their backroom. I've the six apps that make up the "MBA Fire Hose Suite" (Outlook, Firefox, Excel, PPT, Word, and WinAmp) running at the moment and the shuttling back and forth can bog things down.

Finally tonight, a mini-Rosa Parks tribute. People in southeast MI are pretty in tune with her passing and the significance of her life, but I think Al Sharpton parked the tribute, suggesting we should all be activists:

As long as I can, I'll speak out! When I can't speak out, I'll stand up! When I can't stand up, I'll sit in the way!