Wednesday, February 20, 2002
No party tonight, guys. Only 1,300+ wds. today. But that gets me to page 91 and very close to the end of Chapter 3, which should conclude around page 100.
Dr. Grover Krantz is dead. You may never have heard of Grover Krantz, but he was an anthropologist at Washington State University who spent the last few decades of his life doggedly trying, without success, to demonstrate that the Sasquatch was more than a myth. Though thoughts of hairy man-beasts roaming the Pacific Northwest of North America (as well as the Himalayas) were a terrifying delight of my childhood, I've pretty much given up hope for the existence of such creatures long since. But I've always admired Krantz' persistence and determination to be taken seriously by other anthropologists. He's someone I would have loved to have had the opportunity to meet.
Speaking of science and myth, I've been rather taken aback by the new studies indicating that caffeine is good for you and insomniacs may live longer lives. Taken aback in a good way, but taken aback nonetheless. I have to begin to wonder, though, if this isn't all some terrible conspiracy hatched in the mind of Darth Gates, to insure he'll have legions of sleepless, hyperactive drones to crunch code for him in the years to come.
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