funny, isn't it?

"Mr. Herman Melville has earned a deservedly high reputation for his performances in descriptive fiction. He has gathered his own materials, and travelled along fresh and untrodden literary paths, exhibiting powers of no common order, and great originality. The more careful, therefore, should he be to maintain the fame he so rapidly acquired, and not waste his strength on such purposeless and unequal doings as these rambling volumes about spermaceti whales."--London Literary Gazette, December 6 1851 it's interesting how opinions vary so much. it's best not to listen to them at all, i should think.

right now, i'm in the school computer lab and the persons on either side of me both have runny noses and coughs and they keep sniffing and coughing. i want to make them blow their noses and take some medicine! hopefully, i am immune to whatever they have.