Bond… James Bond Monday, Jan 8 2007 

Weekend Happenings plotinus 8:21 am

So my wife had a work thing in a city 2 1/2 hours NE of RBI, and since she’s really not a morning person and would rather stick things in her eyes than get up before 9 and we had to leave for the city at 7:30, I was Mr. Chauffer.

I wasn’t part of anything associated with her work, so I pretty much had the day to kill, 3 hours of which I killed watching Casino Royal. 

I like Bond movies. The action is good, the plots are decent, and I’m generally engaged in the movies and don’t find myself bored to tears (like I almost was in Night at the Museum (funny, but kind of boring in spots)). 

I LOVED Casino Royal.  Bond was, for the first time in recent memory, real.  Unlike the Pierce Brosnan Bond, who was always impeccably dressed with nary a cut, scratch, bruise or injury, the Daniel James Bond was magnificent.  He bled.  He damn near died (enter Bond girl Vesper Lynd).  He had scars on his face. In short, I think, the best bond of the last decade, if not since Roger Moore or Sean Connery.  Oh, and the plot was pretty good too.  =)

 

The streak is over Friday, Jan 5 2007 

Course-Related Stuff and Rantings, Annoyances, etc. plotinus 4:45 pm

And it had just begun. Oh well.

It’s Friday. It’s 4:41. It’s about time to go home.

It’s hard to come back to work after having 5 straight days off… and then having to work for 4 days – rather tiring.

Classes start on Monday – my last term of coursework. I cannot wait to be done with classes and all the bullshit associated with professorial egos.  Granted, my goal is to join the ranks of the professors, but as a student, I’m sick of dealing with the “I know more than you” attitude. I know they know more, which is why I want to learn from them.

Anyway, two classes, one on dissertation research stuff, one one how adults learn.  Should be interesting.  Prelims later this semester, proposal meeting early summer, data collection early fall, data analysis mid-fall, write write write until March, defend in late March, graduate in May 08.  Here’s hoping that all works to plan =)

Have a good weekend, campers. More next week… this weekend if I’m inspired.

 

Two days in a row! Wednesday, Jan 3 2007 

Clarifying points and Work in all its glory plotinus 8:35 am

Ok, so I shouldn’t be that excited, but I’m now posting for my second day in a row…

It’s going to be a rough morning… hard to keep my eyes open, and yet the To Do list on my desk is many items long… over 10, many of which need to be completed by Friday.  Does that mean I should stop blogging?  Uh, no. I can manage to do this, and those, and get all necessary things done.

An update to yesterday’s excitement… My wife took a pregnancy test again this morning just to verify Sunday’s findings, and it immediately changed to positive… none of this waiting for two minutes stuff.  The reason for the second test?  It’s still hard to believe that she is pregnant. She sees the doctor next Monday, who I’m sure will confirm it yet again.

So that’s it.  Off to my list o’ things to do.

 

New Year’s Excitement Tuesday, Jan 2 2007 

Course-Related Stuff and Fun! plotinus 9:14 am

So I got married in early 2006.  To someone I met on the internet courtesy of match.com. On the first day of 2005.

Two days ago, December 31, 2006, we learned that we are not alone.  Nope. No longer just the two of us.  My wife is pregnant!  Woot!

 We figure it happened around the 16th, making for a mid-to-late-September due date. 

Now, the dilemma (if there is one). My wife, as expected, is super SUPER excited.  Me? I’m excited.  But I’m mega-anxious.  I’m in the middle of a job search to move me from RBI in SRN to a smaller institution in Urban Somewhere.  That move, if all goes well, will happen in May or June.  I’m also completing my coursework for my Ph.D. this semester (god willing and I don’t kill my department head (more on that another time)) and will be entering dissertation mode shortly thereafter (Prelims are *tentatively* scheduled for April, barring a murder…).   How do I match my wife’s excitement in light of the turmoil of the rest of my life?

 Thoughts, if there are any, are welcome.

But I’m going to be a daddy! =)

 

Been a long time, been a long time… Tuesday, Jan 2 2007 

Uncategorized plotinus 8:27 am

… been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time.

 [insert drum solo and final chord]

 So about a year ago I started this blog, and then all of a sudden simply stopped posting.  I suppose at the time things got busy, what with spring semester courses, a wedding to attend to, a honeymoon to plan, an office merger to deal with, and a whole host of other randomness that precluded me from lamenting and/or praising the life that is my own on the lovely internet.

 Well, this is an end to that.  While not a resolution, as resolutions are often overlooked, forgotten, and ignored, this is my attempt to once again enter the blogosphere with thoughts I find interesting in hopes that you, dear readers, will also find them interesting as well.

So, a quick recap of the last year: work, school, wedding, school, work, school.  Really, what else is there? =)

 I do hope to be far more regular here, maybe even damned near daily.  There’s lots going on here at RBI… and in my life.  I can’t wait to share.