Archive for April 24th, 2008
Busy weekend coming up
April 24th, 2008 • chatter
I’ve got Friday-Sunday to write a paper. Sunday is a photo shoot on campus. I need to get our bike rims trued and tires reseated properly and the bikes adjusted to fit our body types. It’s been about a decade since I’ve had to do that and I realized tonight how rusty I am at it. Of course, my last bike was adjusted perfectly over about 4 years of tuning so I hope this doesn’t take 4 as well. I’d love to start taking this thing around but that’s not very effective to do on a 7 speed beach cruiser. If I wanted a decent car replacement, I’d just shell out a ton of money for a nice Trek or Voodoo (do they still make bikes?) or Kona (do they?). Oh well, those are some fond past memories.
Felt under the weather all day today, part cold/sick, part stressed. Took over 2 months to get my latest evaluation at work but it was worth it, got a $3000/year raise! And some extra vacation. That was the highlight of the day and luckily, it was at the end of the day too. Pretty depressing that I had to bring this thing up once a week for 9 weeks to get it done but at least it’s over until August. At which point it’ll be delayed again, I’m sure.
Cooked up some artichokes for dinner tonight, they were awesome. A great hand-off from our anchovy-gherkin-infused turkey breast dinner last night (also awesome). I’m kind of hungry now but they were great. Now I just wish I had a snack to go along with my honey tea.
It’s crunch time
April 24th, 2008 • chatter
Finals are next week and I have no idea what’s on my Human Evolution final. Andrew just kind of scooted us out of class last week without discussing it but discussing our option to go to the Elgin Center fund raiser after the final. I’ve also got a paper to write for Monday but I haven’t started it and I’m not too keen on cramming it in this weekend. After this semester is over, I get to apply to FAU for residence reclassification so I can actually take more classes for less money; otherwise I’m there for another 8 years for this degree. That’s manageable I suppose but I’m not going for a doctorate or anything here.
I started reading Josh Bernstein’s book about Digging For The Truth earlier this week and it’s definitely a light read. Glossy pages with nice pictures and easy writing. Good for those nights when I don’t want to really concentrate on what I’m reading. I miss the show but I hear his new show in Discovery is going to be pretty good as well but we’ll see when it airs in a few months. The Year of Living Biblically was finally finished and turned out somewhat expectedly. AJ came out of it still agnostic but respecting of Judeo-Christian faiths. I say good for him, at least he spent an entire year learning some off the wall things.
It’s research time, I suppose.