Interviews!

This is a busy week of UGA interviews here in Res Life. Conveniently (for me, and it's all about me, isn't it?), all the interviews are done in Brace Commons, so I don't have far to travel. It does keep me from experiencing the outside world, so today I made sure to get out of the building and go to the office, mainly to pick up mail, but also to experience the outside world.

Tomorrow morning, I'll be traveling out to pay for my car registration for this year. Exciting stuff!

Talked to my grandmother today, as Sue and I got an anniversary card from her in the mail. She's 88 years old, and is doing fine, living in an assisted living home in New Jersey, near where my family lives. She moved out of her house after 53 years back in summer 2004, but then had to move to another assisted living location when the place that she was living was sold for some other purpose. The new owners were not interested in keeping the home going. Fortunately, she was able to find a place relatively easily, with the help of family in the area.

Tomorrow is the last day of interviews for this term. They haven't tired me out like the interview week has in the past. Perhaps I'm doing a better job of pacing myself, or I'm mis-remembering how tired I actually was in the past from these.

NP: Frank Zappa - The Mammy Anthem (12 July 1982)

Obvious!

Before on here, I've spoken of Joe and my conversations about his cucumber moments, AKA: Penetrating glimpses into the obvious. I had one of these the other day.

I was thinking about Chekhov in Star Trek II, and how he did a 1st Officer's Log for the Reliant. I then thought, "Hey, a captain's log is much like a web log! That's interesting..." Then, I realized it's actually not interesting at all, as pretty much everyone who ever thought about "weblog" probably realized that the idea of a Captain's Log is pretty much identical to the blogging idea.

Anyway, a glimpse into my mind. Joe's example of this is about pickles, and realizing that they're actually pickled cucumbers. Duh.

1st Day of March today. Happy new month!

Today's been a busy day of Dartmouth student staff interviews, and general work stuff. We're doing interviews till Friday, and then we're done till next term. Today was also payday for we "non-exempt" staff (or are we "exempt," I can never remember). We get paid once a month, which I actually like, as it makes it easy to budget. I paid off all my credit cards today, so again my credit card debt is down to zero. I still have about $8500 in student loan debt, but my plan is to knock as much of that down as quickly as possible this year, as I'm just sick of paying it off month by month.

It's possible that I could have it all paid off by December, but we'll see. If I don't do anything extra, it should all be done by April 2009, which still seems like a long way away, although it's only 3 years.

NP: Genesis - Duchess

Anniversary!

Today is Sue and my 2nd wedding anniversary! Happy us! Sue is great. I love her.

We went out to eat at a local Mexican place, our first time there. It was quite tasty, if I say so myself.

If you're looking for what D&D character you are, go here. I'm a True Neutral Half-Elf Druid Fighter. You know, the Druids built Stonehenge...

NP: David Bowie; Queen Bitch

Tapes!

Tonight, I may actually start converting the audio tapes I have of the Joe J./Mike L./John S. project from 1994 over to MP3's. Or, at the least, I'll get set up to do it. There's a lot of good improv music on those tapes, that perhaps I'll try to turn into something a bit more arranged... We shall see.

My friend Lou has a blog now too. Not much on it yet, but knowing Lou, there will be interesting stuff up there, even if it's just ramblings...

Today, I finished the latest book by Richard Dawkins I bought, called "The Blind Watchmaker," all about evolution and other science-y type stuff. As a frustrated scientist myself, it's always interesting to read about what smart people are doing with their time. I hope some of the smartness rubs off on me...

Now, I'm reading the 4th volume of Joe Straczynski's Babylon 5 script books. Sometime soon, I'm going to have to revisit watching the entire series. And, I haven't mentioned it on here recently, but Andreas Katsulas, who played G'Kar on the show, recently died of lung cancer. I'll have to pull out some episodes specifically to watch him, perhaps "The Long Twilight Struggle," or "Dust to Dust," although there are plenty more with great G'Kar moments in them.

NP: John Lennon; Woman (Home Recording)