It's a chilly fall Wednesday here in Spokane, Washington, and instead of writing up a study guide for next week's biochemistry exam, here I am posting ....

Random thoughts...

• One of the best things about being an adult?  You can choose to bring chocolate pudding in your lunch.
• I've known for years that I'm a Science Geek (tm), but today would've ( Read more... )

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As a recent veteran of the academic job search wars, I still get e-mail alerts from the Chronicle of Higher Education on new job openings.  I continue to get them not because I'm looking for a job -- I like my job and I certainly don't want to move again -- but because I'm too lazy to turn off the alerts.  And, as I found out today, because they ( Read more... )

I fancy myself something of a music aficionado.  Maybe not to the extent of Rob Gordon but certainly, I like to think about/critique/discuss music.  Now that I have something of a commute to work, I spend a little more time by myself in the car listening to music of my choice.  So yesterday, as I was driving in, I was listening to what I consider ( Read more... )

I had every intention of staying quiet on the topic of September 11th.  I've been to New York City once, and went into the World Trade Center, but save for a couple of friends who were in or near Manhattan on that horrible day, that is where my personal involvement ends.  I didn't watch a minute of 9/11 news footage on that day, or on any day since ( Read more... )

More signs that the Bush administration just plain doesn't get it.  Okay, the Supreme Court says, basically, "C'mon guys.  You have to give even terror suspects a fair trial."  So the Bushies say, "Okay, we'll give the a military trial, but the defendant can't see the evidence against him, and doesn't necessarily have the right to be present at his ( Read more... )

In my continuing effort to post more often, I am taking the 30 minutes before my next class to ramble a bit ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm really going to try and post more often. I've said it before, but I mean it this time, dammit!

So... what to talk about.

Well, because I thought it sounded like fun, here's a meme by way of
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I don't pretend to have a great insight into eastern spiritualism. I read The Tao of Pooh and had a Non-Western Religions class in college (yes, me, the atheist, chose to take a Non-Western Religions class... I find religion fascinating), sure, but it's far from a study of mine. So for me to say I feel a strong connection with the Taoist concept ( Read more... )

Well, it's official. The 2005-2006 job search is better than the 2004-2005 job search ( Read more... )