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We went to Borders tonight to shop for books. We shop there in a weird way: we patrol the store and find anything that looks remotely interesting and write down either title/author or ISBN. Then, we save these books on to our Amazon wishlists and buy them cheaply when we can afford them. It's a nice temptation-free way to shop.
It's honestly the best of both worlds, since we can get books (sometimes used) for cheaper, and we can look at them before we buy. You can look at my wishlist if you want, which includes a number of things I've already read but either sold or never bought.
I'm so bored tonight and my back hurts. I'm finally getting over my cold but I'm achy and everything. My back feels like it was hit with a baseball back. We got the birds out for a while, and only Sancha has behaved well enough to still be out... and she's been out nearly three hours, a good long while for bird interaction time.
I bought a new video card for my game emulation computer that has a TV-Out. I can now play old school Nintendo, Sega, et al. on TV, but I can't quite get the image to fit right. I guess I get what I pay for, and this card was a cheap one. If I had loads of coins, I'd go ahead and get a true-to-life scan converter. That would have adjustments built-in.
I can't wait until our first Amazon order arrives.
This week, they're interviewing candidates for a new position in the department. Ugh. That means I have to meet three random people, attend lectures and colloquia for each of them and evaluate them. I guess it is an important thing to do, but I don't want to. I guess I'll never get that kind of laziness shit out of my system.
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about my future career and research objectives. I've noticed myself getting a lot more political lately. I essentially gave up on most things in politics once the 2000 election happened and the "War on Terror" started. These showed that nothing anyone in the country said mattered. I was certainly further moved to the jaded category after the election of 2004. I've also become a lot more interested in examining the coming ends of the American empire. It will happen, and it will implode upon itself -- it's just a matter of when and how. I find myself reading and pouring over political geography works more and more and finding them incredibly interesting.
I guess that does flow into my main focus, which is hazards and human-environment interactions. A critically political/qualitative bent could be exactly the spark the seemingly stagnant hazards sub-discipline is looking for...? As I discover and uncover more (and perhaps bring up the thoughts to the intellectually intimidating Jim Tyner and get feedback) I will post more about this. It's honestly a very scary consideration as any career focus change would be. I will also talk to Tom Schmidlin, my current ad-hoc advisor and resident hazards guru about the situation as well.
My cold is going away, but I still ache. I wish we had a jacuzzi.
I bought Amy tickets (four rows back on the middle line) to Wednesday night's Barons game for Valentine's Day. Whenever I get presents for someone, it's impossible for me to resist giving them early. I gave her the tickets within about two hours of buying them. She was exceptionally happy, because I think she's going through hockey withdrawal as well. That'll be our night-after-Valentine's Wednesday night out to Cleveland. We had dinner out tonight too, spliting an appetizer, entree and dessert from Longhorn.
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on February 13, 2006 10:08 PM | Permalink
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