I’m back from Mexico and getting ready for the upcoming semester, which for me means shuffling through piles of dusty papers looking for hardcopies of my class notes because some jerkwad stole my USB memory stick/jump drive/flash drive from my backpack, presumably in one airport or another. Said wad also stole my ipod Shuffle, but [...]
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The Joy of Learning
Posted in Cogitatin' on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Latest in Skin Safety
Posted in Cogitatin' on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every late spring I become preoccupied with sunscreens. Being ginger-haired and porcelain-skinned my genes suit me to live somewhere at or above 60 degrees north latitude. My ancestors were likely awed and frightened by the angry ball of fire that appeared in the sky in mid-July. So now that I’m stuck in the sunbaked south [...]
Existential Freakout
Posted in Cogitatin' on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For the last couple of years I’ve been preoccupied with some heavy hitting problems about human life: our ultimate origins and purposes, all that stuff. I think this was all triggered by my slow-motion realization that everything is not okay in the world. This conclusion was in the works for a long time, ever since my [...]
Getting There Is Half The Fun
Posted in Cogitatin' on April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last week I was away for a few days in Chicago (sweet) at an academic conference (yawn). Although I enjoy being in different places I’ve never been very fond of the traveling part. Getting up early to get on the road, waiting aimlessly in lines at airports, stuffing myself into cramped seats in which I [...]
The Ageing is the Hardest Part
Posted in Cogitatin' on March 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Look at me, I’m a grad student. I’m thirty years old and I made $600 last year. –Bart Simpson I took some time to live a little after graduating high school the way many young people do. You know the timeless sowing-of-wild-oats story: working at a newspaper warehouse, working at Outback Steakhouse, working at Target. [...]
Love, Mexican-American Style
Posted in Cogitatin' on March 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We all know that it can be hard to leave our work at the office, and in that way I’m no different from anyone else. I am different in that I’m a social scientist, so even when I’m not wearing my lab coat and examining scientific data I can’t help but think in terms of [...]
A Man Has Needs
Posted in Cogitatin' on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m no luddite or anything, I own both a cellphone and an ipod. Both were given to me by my mother, but I still use them, and of course I view the inter-network now and then. Nonetheless, I can’t help but think that all the clamorous gizmos that no one can live without anymore aren’t [...]
