Random Thoughts

After my roommate moved out with her kitten, my kitten got lonely. So...I had to get another one.  She's adorable too.


They love each other.

261.     07/27/07            Fahrenheit 451                              Ray Bradbury

262.     07/28/07            Will in the World                            Stephen Greenblatt

263.     08/09/07            The Language Instinct                                      Steven Pinker

264.     08/12/07            The Illustrated Man                           Ray Bradbury

265.     08/26/07            Sex: A Natural History               Joann Rodgers

266.     08/28/07            The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye            Jonathan Lethem

267.     09/08/07            Branded Nation                            James Twitchell

268.     09/16/07            Shadowplay                                              Tad Williams

269.     09/19/07            Stumbling on Happiness                  Daniel Gilbert

270.     09/29/07            Uppity Women of Shakespearean Times  Vicki Leon

271.     10/02/07            Queen of Subtleties                                    Suzannah Dunn

     10/09/07            Made in America                                     Bill Bryson

    10/11/07            Alexander the Corrector               Julia Keay

    10/16/07            The Best of Crank                                     Bryan Cholfin, ed.

    10/20/07            The Girls Who Went Away                          Ann Fessler

     10/29/07            Madhouse                                                Andrew Scull

     11/01/07            A Thousand Splendid Suns                 Khaled Hosseini

     11/09/07            The End of Faith                           Sam Harris

     11/14/07            Flying Dutch                                         Tom Holt

    11/21/07            Faust Among Equals                            Tom Holt

  11/26/07            Freakonomics                                        Steven Levitt

Got into my first fender bender today.  Yay.  Girl backed into me in a parking lot.  Of course her car had no damage at all.  At least the damage on mine is just cosmetic.  She better pay up.  :)

Edit: She finally paid up two months later after avoiding the insurance companies for weeks and refusing to return phone calls or answer certified letters.  Ummm...did she think it was just going to go away?

My new kitty Mo and her sister Azrael.

I think a lot of guys secretly just want to wear skirts.  Why else the ridiculously baggy pants?  I say just go for it and put on the skirts guys.  I'm sure it will be more attractive.

So, I've completely lost my mind and am adopting a new kitten (or baby cat as my roommate prefers to call them).   That's not the crazy part though.  While looking through a pet adoption site, I came across the cutest kitten ever.  It had amohawk.  It currently lives in Kansas City.  So, about two weeks from now my roommate and I will be driving 10 hours to Kansas City to pick up a kitten.  Yes, I am aware that we have kittens in Texas.  But, I am insane as previously mentioned.  I will be calling her Mo.

    05/17/07            Sex, Time, and Power                                      Leonard Schlain

    05/23/07            Courtship Rite                                            Donald Kingsbury

     05/20/07            Public Health                                        Bernard Turnock 

    05/28/07            Kaffir Boy                                            Mark Mathabane

     06/08/07            Daily Life in Greece                                    Robert Flaciliere

   06/14/07            The Fourth Bear                                Jasper Fforde

   06/20/07            Kafka on the Shore                                    Haruki Murakami

     06/27/07            The Assassin King                             Elizabeth Haydon

     07/06/07            The Good Men                                 Charmaine Craig

     07/09/07            Summer Blonde                           Adrian Tomine

   07/13/07          The Book of Lost Books                Stuart Kelly

Had my 10 year high school reunion last night.  It was surprisingly decent. Met up with a few old friends so that was nice.  Made fun of the slutty bitches that we hated in high school.  And the best part.... the drag queen.  I love drag queens.  Everyone knew he was gay in highschool, but I wasn't expecting him to show up at the reunion and put on a drag show for us.  It was awesome.  Hopefully I'll have pics soon.

I've really been wanting to go on a cool vacation lately, so I'm thinking about taking a trip to Costa Rica.  I thought I might take one of those classes where you learn Spanish for part of the day and explore the rest of the time.  Some of the optional trips like canopy tours and horseback riding in the mountains sound like fun.  Now I just have to find someone to go with me.  Damn friends getting married and having babies.

Recently completed books:

    

01/24/07          Forest Mage                                         Robin Hobb

     01/27/07          The Tipping Point                              Malcolm Gladwell

     02/12/07          Sex in History                                       Reay Tannahill

     02/25/07            Everything You Know is Wrong            Russ Kick ed.

     02/27/07          The Chosen                                       Ricardo Pinto

     03/25/07          The Last Hero                                               Terry Pratchett

     04/06/07            A Mind of its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis  David Friedman

     04/10/07            Her Smoke Rose Up Forever                          James Tiptree

     04/20/07            Barbarians                                                 Terry Jones

     04/22/07            More Sex is Safer Sex                                      Steven Landsburg

     05/01/07            Spirit Gate                                           Kate Elliott

Family killed by Ninjas.  Need money for ninja school.

-Sign held by a homeless man on the street corner on my way to work today.  That was worth a dollar.

Sometimes I think it would be cool if we all had our own soundtracks. 

Well, now I'm going to Durham for a week of mass spectrometry screening training instead of a Washington, DC newborn screening meeting.  It'll be just like being in school again...lectures on various diseases from 8-5 all week.  Not that that's necessarily a problem... I like learning, but it does mean an extended period of time without internet access.

Well, I can see out of my right eye now.  They implanted a collamer lens into my right eye this morning.  The left eye will be done next Monday.  I can see pretty well but my blind left eye is causing a little interference.  Hopefully I'll be able to wear a contact on that eye until next Monday.

Anyone ever had a rubberband snapped on their eyeball before?  No?  Well, I can tell you that a periphiridotomy is probably the next best thing. Just had it done today in preperation for my lens implant surgery next week.  Ouch.  And on top of that it gives you a headache and blurred vision.  I can barely see what I'm typing and I'm supposed to be working right now.  Joy.

I'm almost all settled in in my new house now.  I love it.  I've had it painted inside and out and gotten some new furniture.  I'll take some more pictures once I'm all finished.  My new job is going okay so far as well.  I'm having to learn a lot now in the beginning, but it sounds like it is going to be interesting.  I'll even get to do some travelling to some meetings, 2 in April and 1 in May. 

Well, I bought a house in Austin this weekend.  I'll be moving there in March.  My first house.  It's a little odd, but I got a good deal.  The interior is all newly redone and it's in a good location, so the value is going to increase for sure.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86039900@N00/

Looks like I'm moving to Austin in about 1 month.  I have a job offer there and I'm heading up there this weekend to look for a house.  Exciting.

My current to be read list.  Not counting the 20 books I already have at home waiting on my shelf.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=yourlists_pop_1/102-6022067-1683327

Latest Books

The Oracle’s Queen Lynn Flewelling

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman

Gun, with occasional music Jonathan Lethem

Variable Star Heinlein and Robinson

Everything Bad is Good For You Steven Johnson

Sex: The Measure of All Things Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

History of Celibacy Elizabeth Abbott

The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K LeGuin

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Mary Roach