I'm incredibly jealous - that's an impressive World War I library collection! I think Winston Churchill published his thoughts about WWI in some form; I recommend you try and find that. I have his WWII history as well as David Reynold's analysis of how reality differed from Churchill's recollections. Got a bit of a way into that, but still need to finish it.
I'm also disappointed that I haven't given you the update for Texas and I that you asked for - it's coming, I promise! Even my parents are behind the loop so you're not the only one :P
The three bits of most interesting news are: Texas and I are now MAs, and I am an internship/practicum away from my second MA Texas has a great job starting on Aug 12 that's paying her the higher end of the scale for recent grads I'm involved with the local Bernie Sanders for President campaign and had our first meeting on Wednesday. A lot of enthusiasm, a lot of support, so we'll need to see where this takes us.
I'll try to post a lengthier update soon (but no promises!)
While I will admit that I have found good catches with the series that are on my shelf, I will fully admit that my collection is not nearly full enough and would only begin to become so if I could add the titles on my wish lists. (As I told newmistakesabove, I have 42 Amazon Wish lists. Even if I had every single book on that list, I still wouldn't feel like my collection was impressive enough in the broad scheme of things.
Winston Churchill's WritingschpydurxAugust 1 2015, 15:46:07 UTC
I think I downloaded (for free) Churchill's four volumes on World War II to my Kindle. One of these days, I'd love to read The Official Biography-all eight volumes of it!-along with the three volume series The Lsat Lion.
I know that Churchill wrote about World War I-coincidently, he made a great deal of his fortune from his writings. I'll have to look up David Reynold's work; if you could give me either a title or ISBN, I would greatly appreciate it.
You want to talk about jealousy? You could have a copy of my entire library for a pittance of value compared to being married and both partners being highly educated and in well-paying jobs. (Unless her field is one of those fields that never pays much and she's on the high end of that, but I didn't get that vibe reading your comment.)
I don't want to discuss it here publicly, but the past several months have been nothing but backwards progress for me financially, academically and career-ly. There have been two minor good things happen lately, but they are far out-weighed by the enormous black raincloud that hangs over me. I've been debating blogging about this for quite some time, but there's a particular person's feedback I don't want to receive on this issue.
As for news from you and Texas, I keep expecting to hear that she's pregnant.
Have the both of you-as a couple-decided whether or not you're going to have kids?
I don't know what it will take to turn things around at this point and I know I need to be proactive, but it's nice to have some cheerleading from time to time.
This is the hardest reply for me to author: I have spent a lot of my life avoiding or ignoring things I don't like and attempting to change the world around me to suite my desires.
When we first met on Xanga, I enjoyed our political conversations and would like to have more of the same. I thought for a long time you were libertarian-ish, but as Obama's campaign took off, you and agnophile (or whatever his handle was from Xanga) really bonded politically; I was quite disappointed to see that progression.
It would be an easy criticism to make: "Ole gradumacated came from England via Crim Rock and found a home as a socialist in academia." But that's not quite the correct level of nuisance even from my own ignorant position (i.e. we haven't really kept each other that informed
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I'm also disappointed that I haven't given you the update for Texas and I that you asked for - it's coming, I promise! Even my parents are behind the loop so you're not the only one :P
The three bits of most interesting news are:
Texas and I are now MAs, and I am an internship/practicum away from my second MA
Texas has a great job starting on Aug 12 that's paying her the higher end of the scale for recent grads
I'm involved with the local Bernie Sanders for President campaign and had our first meeting on Wednesday. A lot of enthusiasm, a lot of support, so we'll need to see where this takes us.
I'll try to post a lengthier update soon (but no promises!)
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I know that Churchill wrote about World War I-coincidently, he made a great deal of his fortune from his writings. I'll have to look up David Reynold's work; if you could give me either a title or ISBN, I would greatly appreciate it.
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What is your second MA in?
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You want to talk about jealousy? You could have a copy of my entire library for a pittance of value compared to being married and both partners being highly educated and in well-paying jobs. (Unless her field is one of those fields that never pays much and she's on the high end of that, but I didn't get that vibe reading your comment.)
I don't want to discuss it here publicly, but the past several months have been nothing but backwards progress for me financially, academically and career-ly. There have been two minor good things happen lately, but they are far out-weighed by the enormous black raincloud that hangs over me. I've been debating blogging about this for quite some time, but there's a particular person's feedback I don't want to receive on this issue.
As for news from you and Texas, I keep expecting to hear that she's pregnant.
Have the both of you-as a couple-decided whether or not you're going to have kids?
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I don't know what it will take to turn things around at this point and I know I need to be proactive, but it's nice to have some cheerleading from time to time.
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When we first met on Xanga, I enjoyed our political conversations and would like to have more of the same. I thought for a long time you were libertarian-ish, but as Obama's campaign took off, you and agnophile (or whatever his handle was from Xanga) really bonded politically; I was quite disappointed to see that progression.
It would be an easy criticism to make: "Ole gradumacated came from England via Crim Rock and found a home as a socialist in academia." But that's not quite the correct level of nuisance even from my own ignorant position (i.e. we haven't really kept each other that informed ( ... )
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