This seems to be the tentative plan for me ( Read more... )

Luckily I was able to get my car fixed at the dealership last night; they also fixed a couple of other things that I had been meaning to get looked at so it's all good.

Arrgh, my car won't start and I couldn't get it jumped; now I have to get it towed. At least I'm thankful for two things -- first that my living situation is such that I don't need to use my car very often, and second that Progressive's insurance covers things like jumping and towing ( Read more... )

I'm reading Lord of the Rings again -- it's interesting to read the book carefully again after having recently been perusing Tolkien's letters. Tolkien was a devout Catholic, and he considered Lord of the Rings to be a work of Christian fiction; in one letter to a reader he said that LotR was not ultimately a story of good and evil, but a story ( Read more... )

The Bengals finally won their first game of the season; of course I wasn't watching.

Also Atlanta today had a time of possession of 45:15 against Oakland. If you don't watch football that may not mean much, but it's staggeringly bad; I haven't found confirmation on this but it may be a new record for ToP in the NFL. And this was a home game! ( Read more... )

I just saw on the news that AEP is considering a surcharge on our electricity bills because of the costs involved in restoring power during this previous power outage. Nothing is decided yet, but that seems sort of like a store charging you extra money because they were out of a supply you wanted.

After OSU's disastrous loss to USC last week, they beat Troy with their usual Tressel-coached small margin this week. Conference play starts vs. Minnesota next week then we've got the tough game against Washington ( Read more... )

The incoming students this year that I'll be teaching were in elementary school when 9/11 happened.

I'm getting older.

The college football season started this weekend. OSU played their first game vs. Youngstown State (a 1-AA team) yesterday; it was a good chance to see the team in action. They looked fine, although it's hard to tell vs. a cupcake team, and they didn't even keep the starters in for the first half. The big test for OSU will be the third game ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I updated with life stuff. I'm looking forward to the Autumn quarter starting since this summer job is very boring and I'm not doing much else. The problem is that I need to be deciding on a dissertation topic, which is not easy. I have some ideas, but I don't know which ones will best turn into dissertations, and reading ( Read more... )