Managed to keep my body going long enough to go out to dinner to celebrate my friend's academic achievement; am kicking myself for not having brought a tape recorder. Much to say (after organizing my thoughts into something that'll pass for coherence) about education and tribes and ways/patterns of thinking, and who my "us"es and "them"s are. (Short version: on some levels I mostly identify with people way the hell more (formally) educated than I am, except that sometimes I notice what amazingly impressive people I'm chatting with.)
Once I stopped moving, the fatigue caught up with me very quickly. Tonight is not the time to try to organize those thoughts, just to enjoy the memory of a grand evening helping a friend celebrate and having a fun conversation with nifty, impressive people. Oh yeah, and the food was good too, (The place I suggested turned out to be closed Mondays, so we wandered the neighbourhood and picked a restaurant I'd never been to. But after all, how far wrong can you go in Little Italy?)