I've been working on job applications. I've got them sort of organized now. The organization is a pain -- some want paper applications, some want electronic, some want certain things submitted electronically and others on paper, some of the electronic ones use a central system but others use their own system, and so on. Right now, I've got each ( Read more... )

A few times lately, I've skipped going to something because I had to take a bus or metro there and I wasn't sure that I'd have a seat and I knew that my ankle couldn't handle standing all the way there. What's the rule for those "these seats must be offered to seniors or people with disabilities" seats? Nobody is going to just offer one to me ( Read more... )

Just need to have this somewhere.

Write two more pages of research statement
Type up graph result
Laundry
Call PT
Call Empi about TENS
Call landlord about dishwasher
Cook jambalaya
Bring boxes to garage

...circa 1975 or so. I think he gets about half the central argument of Diet for a Small Planet here. He misses the other half, though. And also misses pretty much everything that everybody thinking about this issue has said in at least the past thirty years.

Just got to this Elsie passage. Still, just blinking at it. Captain Raymond quotes a bit from the Bible, then comments, "Verily I believe that we of the Anglo-Saxon nations are the literal descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God's own chosen people, so that we have the strongest claim to these precious promises; but let us never forget that ( Read more... )

Two confirmed cases of swine flu at my university. We all got an email with a reminder to wash our hands and not hang out with sneezing feverish people. Classes are already over for the semester, so there's no debate over whether or not to cancel classes, and final exams are going on as planned.

According to Elsie Dinsmore. (The entire book Elsie Yachting With the Raymonds is spent visiting Revolutionary War battle sites and telling stories of the battles ( Read more... )

Interesting. In the last book and the one I just started (Elsie With the Raymonds and Elsie Yachting With the Raymonds, published in 1889 and 1890), we've suddenly gone from being American Christians to being Americans! Americans! And also Christians! Endless scenes of parents and kids telling each other stories of Revolutionary War battles, ( Read more... )

Another Elsie book. Lulu and Max and their father go west! Where, exactly, I'm not sure. It's not specified, other than "to the West." And, as I feared, they meet some Mormons. And discuss how the Mormons are one of the greatest threats our country has ever faced. The word "evil" is even used, which I don't think was even used when they were ( Read more... )

Still reading Elsie. They've now advanced far enough in time that they have telephones! There was no big deal about getting them, though -- just, in one chapter they obviously didn't have them, and in the next chapter they did. Odd ( Read more... )