Once you stop posting for a while, it’s hard to get back in the habit of doing it. In part because you just aren’t making the time anymore, and in part because you feel like you have to catch everyone up. So, here’s me making the time, and I’m going to try to catch you up.
Friday I went to an Auburn Philosophical Society presentation. Mike Watkins was presenting one of his crazy metaphysics papers. This one on primitivism. It was pretty good. When I walked out of the library I discovered that I had a voice mail. To my surprise I discovered that my plans for the evening were going to be over-ridden by having to work instead.
Yeah, somehow I missed it when I looked over the semester schedule, but I’m working every other Friday night from 1700 to 0500. I’m alternating those with Saturday nights, and I work every Sunday night. So that means that every other week I work crazy night shifts separated by a regular Saturday. I can already tell that this isn’t going to be much fun, and is likely to make the semester that much more difficult. I’ll make it though.
Of course getting home at 0500 Saturday morning makes you tired when you go about your Saturday plans. I got four hours of sleep, woke up, and then Will and I went to hang with people out at the lake. We got some tubing in, and I managed to get in a couple of minutes of ski time for the first time in something like five years. I wish I had more time for it.
Then we drove over to Rand’s place for some awesome board gaming action. We played some Modern Art, some Samurai, some Boomtown, and something else (I can’t remember). It was fun, and I’m glad we took the time to do it. Of course I was somewhat disappointed by our failure to get in a game of Power Grid, but hey, you can’t have everything.
Sunday we celebrated Marie’s birthday (almost a week early) since it was the best time for us all to get together. Her birthday is actually today (happy birthday, Marie!), and that means that I no longer have any teenaged siblings. How odd. Then I went to work, joy.
Got back from work Monday morning at 0500, crashed, and went to class at 1100. Yea class! Speaking of, I’m really enjoying my classes. I’ve pretty much decided to repurpose my major paper for Deviance as my Grad School writing sample. I’m going to try to present it at regular intervals here to get some feedback.
Monday night we had some cool new (to us) local people over for board games. We played Alhambra for the first time, it was good. Well, we played something like it, but we cheated pretty bad for the scoring. Nikki had to go home after the game, so the four of us left played a game of Rook. Rook is fun.
Tuesday I basically just read all day (after school). It can be somewhat hard keeping up with the load. I mean, I’m enjoying pretty much all of it, but it’s a lot, and a lot of it is hard. Tuesday is also the day my dad left for Singapore. He’s got a two week (ish) trip around southeast Asia going over final plans for my parents to move back to Indonesia early next year. We’ve gotten regular phone calls from him, and it sounds like he’s doing fine so far.
Wednesday involved more reading, and I worked up my overview for the paper I’m writing for Deviance (here if anyone is interested).
Thursday was much the same, but with me getting to bed early (around 2300) since I was pretty tired.
Friday was odd. My alarm clock apparently didn’t go off, and I didn’t wake up until 1130. Sleeping for twelve hours when I’m not coming down from a back to back night-shift at work is pretty unusual. And I’m somewhat upset because it caused me to miss both Metaphysics and History of Ancient Philosophy. That’s crappy. I also picked up a copy of Tamora Pierce’s Alanna: The First Adventure from the library. One of those juvenile fiction fantasy series I never read. Finished it in about two and a half hours, and rather enjoyed it. I’ll probably pick up the rest tomorrow.
And that’s it, well, that’s a summary anyway. Now you know, and now I’m hopefully going to be able to keep up better. Wish me luck!
Thomas