tea of inquiry
I'm sipping a substance which brands itself "Tea of Inquiry." It's kind of a toasty-tasting green tea. It makes me happy.
I had a headache. M. links it to the higher-than-normal high pressure system sitting over the region. Maybe.
Had a very strange week. I feel like I didn't work very hard academically, (like not doing my reading) but spent all this time doing other crazy stuff. I talked to atty's who practice as 1)a trust officer at a trust company and 2)director of a charitable foundation. It was pretty nifty. I like making new attorney acquaintances. Hopefully, I can figure out how "expanding my network" will improve my chances of finding gainful employment.
We're learning how to invest our money. It's like "exchange city," but for real. I'm learning how to ask investment advisors lots of questions about securities. Ultimately, I think it will help me in class. We started Sarbanes-Oxley in BAII.
Had Shabbat dinner at the rabbi's house. There were 3 kinds of kugel. It was very nice. Learned about poodles and strategic stain management techniques ("get it where you can cover it").
I skimmed "The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney. While it was interesting to read the genesis of government twisting of science (which is sort of what I was looking at in my NFMA research with the new 2005 planning rules), the book just mostly made me pretty depressed. Damn, the goverment must think the American people are really, really dumb. And the goverment is probably right.
Also read "Female Chauvinist Pigs" by Ariel Levy on the rise of 'raunch culture'. It was entertaining, but I'm not sure how relevant a study of the subject is to my current geographic locality or social status. Alas, my card-carrying nerd-dom usually kept me out of bars or the wet-shirt contests. Maybe if I spent more time on campus with the undergrads I'd get a better idea of "raunch culture" in action.
Leon Wieseltier ("he has very important hair") shreds Daniel C. Dennett's new book The God Genome in the NYTimes this week. While I'm a fan of naturalistic explanations for why people do weird stuff (like have religion, create art, go to monster truck rallies, etc) I realize that entirely biological explanations tend to fall short. People, as gooey and DNA-bound as we are, are kind of complicated. But Wieseltier brings out the big guns of various philosophical theories to show how very smart he is to beat up Dennett. And while he might have a point, it's damn obnoxious. I had to look up any number of words in the article (like fideism, which I don't normally have to do reading anything but legal writing these days).
Edit: The title of Dennett's book is called Breaking the Spell. "The God Genome" was the title of the NY Times article reviewing the book.
Wieseltier sighting: Jonathan Safran Foer's brother Franklin named new editor of the New Republic. "He is a substantial man with a crusading temperament, which is very important in leading a magazine like The New Republic," Mr. Wieseltier said. No word on the relative importance of Mr. Foer's hair.
I had a headache. M. links it to the higher-than-normal high pressure system sitting over the region. Maybe.
Had a very strange week. I feel like I didn't work very hard academically, (like not doing my reading) but spent all this time doing other crazy stuff. I talked to atty's who practice as 1)a trust officer at a trust company and 2)director of a charitable foundation. It was pretty nifty. I like making new attorney acquaintances. Hopefully, I can figure out how "expanding my network" will improve my chances of finding gainful employment.
We're learning how to invest our money. It's like "exchange city," but for real. I'm learning how to ask investment advisors lots of questions about securities. Ultimately, I think it will help me in class. We started Sarbanes-Oxley in BAII.
Had Shabbat dinner at the rabbi's house. There were 3 kinds of kugel. It was very nice. Learned about poodles and strategic stain management techniques ("get it where you can cover it").
I skimmed "The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney. While it was interesting to read the genesis of government twisting of science (which is sort of what I was looking at in my NFMA research with the new 2005 planning rules), the book just mostly made me pretty depressed. Damn, the goverment must think the American people are really, really dumb. And the goverment is probably right.
Also read "Female Chauvinist Pigs" by Ariel Levy on the rise of 'raunch culture'. It was entertaining, but I'm not sure how relevant a study of the subject is to my current geographic locality or social status. Alas, my card-carrying nerd-dom usually kept me out of bars or the wet-shirt contests. Maybe if I spent more time on campus with the undergrads I'd get a better idea of "raunch culture" in action.
Leon Wieseltier ("he has very important hair") shreds Daniel C. Dennett's new book The God Genome in the NYTimes this week. While I'm a fan of naturalistic explanations for why people do weird stuff (like have religion, create art, go to monster truck rallies, etc) I realize that entirely biological explanations tend to fall short. People, as gooey and DNA-bound as we are, are kind of complicated. But Wieseltier brings out the big guns of various philosophical theories to show how very smart he is to beat up Dennett. And while he might have a point, it's damn obnoxious. I had to look up any number of words in the article (like fideism, which I don't normally have to do reading anything but legal writing these days).
Edit: The title of Dennett's book is called Breaking the Spell. "The God Genome" was the title of the NY Times article reviewing the book.
Wieseltier sighting: Jonathan Safran Foer's brother Franklin named new editor of the New Republic. "He is a substantial man with a crusading temperament, which is very important in leading a magazine like The New Republic," Mr. Wieseltier said. No word on the relative importance of Mr. Foer's hair.