If you're anywhere near Washington, this is a good (read: meaningful) thing to do on February 17.

Why? Because numbers matter. Both in the sense elaborated here, and in the sense of "crowds".

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/24/451239/manmade-climate-change-accelerated-in-2001-2010-world-meteorological-organization-reports/Read more... )

I've had a somewhat calmer week due to a lack of job offers. Then, a couple days ago, a whole bunch cropped up, all with the same due date, so I'm all busy now again. To prepare for one of the applications, I'm going to travel to the small town where my dad was born, tomorrow, to visit a museum there. This will be the first time I go there on my ( Read more... )

JOB APPLICATIONS ( Read more... )

Not so much of the exam, but of the art/activism combo.

I've stopped caring much about writing something that might survive me. And I've increased my efforts to actually finish more fanfic. Rationally, I know that it's unlikely that, even *if* we should see the collapse of civilisation - which hopefully is still far from a done deal! - it would happen in the next few years. Still, there's a strange ( Read more... )