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October 08, 2004
Crazy Weather
In the past hour, we've gone from cloudless sunshine to light sprinkles, to puffy white clouds and sunshine, to downpour, and back to perfect sunshine. Bizarre--and nearly impossible to plan for.
Hmm, I don't have much to report. I spent this morning in class, then had pasta from the guys in the parking lot. (Have I explained this before? A couple guys run a pasta stand--like a hotdog stand--in one of the parking lots on campus. It's delicious, cheap, and a fantastic business model.) Then I participated in a after-class discussion on economics, finance, and sustainability. Not too interesting (I think we were all over the map on basic knowledge of the topics, which made it difficult to communicate coherently.)
After the discussion, I helped a couple of other students bring a couch and chair back from the secondhand store in town. We were able to put the chair in Jo's car, but we had to walk the couch about 1k back to the common room. We spent the next hour rearranging our room--we can't seem to get a good karma in the room. The part near the windows is shaping up to be nice, but the part by the door just sucks out your energy when you walk in. Part of the problem is that we have no money to spend spucing up the place--we're basically reliant on the goodness of peoples' hearts and the secondhand stores.
I decided to skip out on a pub crawl this evening and just come home. I'm still working on that SRI paper, and I want to get it done and out the door for edits. With any luck, I'll finish it tonight or tomorrow--at least for round one. I've also volunteered to give a brief presentation on the ins and outs of SRI for people who are thinking about how to use their investments once the program is over. I'm going to wait and see what The Natural Capital Institute has in their October 15 project, since I hope they will cover a lot of the ground I need to think about.
For now, I'm disgruntled because the kitchen is a MESS and I'm the only one home tonight. So if I want to cook dinner (and I stopped at Willy:s on the way home and got ingredients for pasta), I'm going to have to commit to some serious cleaning. Reluctant to do this, I have instead opened a chocolate bar.
Tomorrow is laundry day--it begins at 7 a.m., so I'm going to call it an early night. I'm hoping to get my laundry done early enough to join the group for a bike ride to the natural foods store in Nattraby. But given that I missed last week's laundry, I have my doubts as to whether things will be dry in time.
And now, may I present:
INTERESTING THINGS TO KNOW
The "mohawk" haircut is known as a "mohigan" in the UK and an "iroquois" in Germany.
I know there is another interesting fact I wanted to share, but I can't think of it right now. So I will simply note that I am WAY behind in my emails, and commit to answering a bunch of them this weekend.
Afterthought: which is worse, being lazy or stupid? Class was maddening today because people kept asking the most ridiculous questions. There are only two possibilities: 1) they didn't read the required text or 2) they DID read the text and are too dense to grasp the basic points.
Normally, I would expect that a graduate student would make it a point to read the text ahead of time. Moreover, if the student did NOT read the text, I would assume that s/he would be bright enough to keep quiet on the basic points of the lecture--so as to hide the obvious lapses in knowledge. Apparently not.
I swear, when I'm running the world, people will read their assignments!
