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Feb. 14th, 2006 12:12 pmRemember what I said about Disingenuous January? It's gonna get pretty damn cold this weekend - and that's why you don't prune your roses before Presidents' Day!
Bright, clear, and cold. Drop down another 10 or 15 degrees and it'd kind of remind me of Massachusetts. Mmmm, walking along the tops of snowpack as ground-level wind skates ice crystals along the pack and up into your slacks. Good times.
Really, we've had a kinda strange, but not very cold, winter; most of the country got lucky with an atypically warm heating season, which has helped moderate oil and natural gas prices significantly. (If it had been a normal winter, much less a hard winter - ooh, it would have been really, really ugly.) So we're seeing some fall in oil, back down to nearly $60.
Still, China's going want to import another half a million bpd this year, according to predictions, so that'll be fun. The hardest part about watching all this is the simultaneous slowness and speed; it takes forever to get data, and by the time you get it, you're already in trouble.
Oh, and I also saw a surprising article wherein Marketwatch's Paul B. Farrell gets very nervous about global fundamentalism all at once. Good, he should be. So should everyone.
Saturday's token: 0.2
Sunday's miles: 2.0
Monday's token: 0.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 599.6
Miles out of Rivendell: 139.7
Miles to Lothlórien: 326.6
Today's paper: "Sentences in the Brain: Event-Related Potentials as Real-Time Reflections of Sentence Comprehension and Language Learning." It's Chapter 14 of a larger book for which I don't actually have a name.
I'm starting to be pretty sure I haven't made it past the screening for graduate school; I'm pretty sure they'd have said something by now if they were going to invite me in for the March interviews. So I'm very sad, but once they make it formal, I'll ask them whether there's anything I can do to make my chances on reapplication next year better. If they want me to have an undergraduate-level bio background, I can do that; but if they're just not interested in me no mater what, then, well, I can't, and I'll have to come up with a Plan B.
Monorail and Science Fiction Museum
I've also read another couple of chapters of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. I'm to the section on how to grow individual plants, which is really quite a bit less interesting than the sections on soil management. But that might be because he'd been spending a lot of time on tomatoes, about which I do not care very much. Still, I should be to more interesting plants soon.
I also need to get over to our neighbour's house and get out those ash trees he's letting me take.
Bright, clear, and cold. Drop down another 10 or 15 degrees and it'd kind of remind me of Massachusetts. Mmmm, walking along the tops of snowpack as ground-level wind skates ice crystals along the pack and up into your slacks. Good times.
Really, we've had a kinda strange, but not very cold, winter; most of the country got lucky with an atypically warm heating season, which has helped moderate oil and natural gas prices significantly. (If it had been a normal winter, much less a hard winter - ooh, it would have been really, really ugly.) So we're seeing some fall in oil, back down to nearly $60.
Still, China's going want to import another half a million bpd this year, according to predictions, so that'll be fun. The hardest part about watching all this is the simultaneous slowness and speed; it takes forever to get data, and by the time you get it, you're already in trouble.
Oh, and I also saw a surprising article wherein Marketwatch's Paul B. Farrell gets very nervous about global fundamentalism all at once. Good, he should be. So should everyone.
Saturday's token: 0.2
Sunday's miles: 2.0
Monday's token: 0.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 599.6
Miles out of Rivendell: 139.7
Miles to Lothlórien: 326.6
Today's paper: "Sentences in the Brain: Event-Related Potentials as Real-Time Reflections of Sentence Comprehension and Language Learning." It's Chapter 14 of a larger book for which I don't actually have a name.
I'm starting to be pretty sure I haven't made it past the screening for graduate school; I'm pretty sure they'd have said something by now if they were going to invite me in for the March interviews. So I'm very sad, but once they make it formal, I'll ask them whether there's anything I can do to make my chances on reapplication next year better. If they want me to have an undergraduate-level bio background, I can do that; but if they're just not interested in me no mater what, then, well, I can't, and I'll have to come up with a Plan B.
Monorail and Science Fiction Museum
I've also read another couple of chapters of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. I'm to the section on how to grow individual plants, which is really quite a bit less interesting than the sections on soil management. But that might be because he'd been spending a lot of time on tomatoes, about which I do not care very much. Still, I should be to more interesting plants soon.
I also need to get over to our neighbour's house and get out those ash trees he's letting me take.
