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General update
1) Ack, I forgot to do Yuletide nominations after all. /o\ I suppose this is a demonstration of the general decline in my fannishness. But I am determined to do Yuletide anyway; it's a tradition and I don't want it to end now. I'm sure I'll find things to request/offer anyway.
2) I was out birdwatching with my dad today, and it was a lot of fun. Ten new species for this year, among others a peregrine falcon which I have never seen before! Generally I am pretty bad at birds, because I tend to have my attention to the ground, but my dad is good at it.
3) I have some red itchy things that look like bites and I don't know where they come from. And somehow that gave me the semi-irrational idea that I have bedbugs. I haven't been out traveling and I haven't bought any second-hand furniture or anything in the last year, so the probability that I would have them is really pretty low, but somehow the idea has wormed itself into my head. Okay, I will closely examine in and around my bed before I go to bed and hopefully that will resolve things. But I have the greatest sympathy for people who actually have bedbugs, because bed is the place where you need to relax, and even the suspicion that something is lurking in it to suck your blood is just not conducive to relaxation. (I do appreciate biodiversity but not in my bedroom.)
4) If you're wondering what I did about that offer of a new position at work, I said yes. It's only just started so it's too early to say how much time/energy it will suck, but I am cautiously optimistic that it will be all right.
ETA: 5) Oh, and I have to share this: there's this woman who's maybe in her 70's in our apartment block, who is...well, let's just say that she needs to work on her critical thinking skills. Her latest theory is that people are transsexual because of the mercury in dental amalgam. *sigh*
2) I was out birdwatching with my dad today, and it was a lot of fun. Ten new species for this year, among others a peregrine falcon which I have never seen before! Generally I am pretty bad at birds, because I tend to have my attention to the ground, but my dad is good at it.
3) I have some red itchy things that look like bites and I don't know where they come from. And somehow that gave me the semi-irrational idea that I have bedbugs. I haven't been out traveling and I haven't bought any second-hand furniture or anything in the last year, so the probability that I would have them is really pretty low, but somehow the idea has wormed itself into my head. Okay, I will closely examine in and around my bed before I go to bed and hopefully that will resolve things. But I have the greatest sympathy for people who actually have bedbugs, because bed is the place where you need to relax, and even the suspicion that something is lurking in it to suck your blood is just not conducive to relaxation. (I do appreciate biodiversity but not in my bedroom.)
4) If you're wondering what I did about that offer of a new position at work, I said yes. It's only just started so it's too early to say how much time/energy it will suck, but I am cautiously optimistic that it will be all right.
ETA: 5) Oh, and I have to share this: there's this woman who's maybe in her 70's in our apartment block, who is...well, let's just say that she needs to work on her critical thinking skills. Her latest theory is that people are transsexual because of the mercury in dental amalgam. *sigh*
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5) Awesome. That's the sort of thing I'm writing my dissertation on, actually: people who aren't scientists misappropriating scientific rhetoric either disingenuously or from complete lack of understanding of how science is different from faith.
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Neighbor: "The plants in my garden are much taller these days. That's because of all the mobile phone masts."
Me: "Why would you think that? Do you have evidence for that?"
Neighbor: "Evidence? It's just common sense!"
Me: "But what if someone else thought it was common sense that it was because of, say, global warming. How would you know who was right?"
Neighbor: "But that's the same thing."
Me: "Mobile masts and global warming? That's not the same thing."
Neighbor: "But everything is connected to everything else!"
Me: "Sure things are interconnected, but don't you think it's important to find the most important factors so you can be more effective in the actions that you take?"
Neighbor: "I know more than you do. Don't think I can't use Google just because I'm old!"
Me: *extricates self from discussion*
She's not limited to amalgam...
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Do post about your research some time! Or maybe you already did, and I missed it.
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