2 posts tagged “what i learned today”
- To my (and I think Heather's) surprise, Heather and I both want a third child. It's probably not going to happen -- we're too old and too poor -- but it's nice to know we both want it, at least. Damn, that sounds awfully depressing. Really, it was nice. I actually learned this yesterday.
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When I'm thirsty, I can go through a bottle of Sam Adams's Cherry Wheat beer in about fifteen seconds. It's like drinking a shandy except a hell of a lot more potent. If I'm thirsty and hungry, my alcohol tolerance is now so low that a single bottle will make me feel a little woozy.
- Joe Reger, Jr.'s datablogging platform, while extraordinarily powerful-looking, is not as flexible as I hoped. This evening I wanted to put together a simple datablog to help me keep track of my productivity. Here's what I wanted it to include:
- When I went to bed
- When I got up
- When I arrived at the office
- When I left
- How many words I wrote
- How many emails were in my inbox at the end of the day
- How many hours of teaching prep or administrative work I did, or maybe some other way of quantifying what I did, such as hours worked plus a subjective one-through-five rating for general productivity
- Other particulars such as weather
- I love salad. I knew that already though. With eggs, cheese, nuts, and meat, and a very oily dressing.
- When I feel like shit, and I think it's because I'm tired, lying down on the floor of my office for half an hour with some balled-up clothing for a pillow under my head, amazingly, actually helps. Even if, as was the case today, I've had so much coffee that I feel sick to my stomach and can't possibly sleep.
- Writing is hard. I knew this, of course. But what I forgot is that it's so hard that it sometimes puts me in a tremendously foul mood even if I'm actually getting something done. Which I did today. Weird but true.
- Mothers -- primates and humans -- sometimes kill their babies, and scientists don't like to acknowledge this.
- Joe Carter of The Evangelical Outpost is just as intellectually narrow as he was the last time I read his blog months ago.
- Element of Crime's live act is a little, ahem, how should I put this, rough around the edges, but I like it anyway.
- Red and yellow peppers are very, very good for you. (From WellnessLetter.com.)
