Washington, or maybe Lincoln, was the one of the greatest presidents we've ever had, because he was born in February, and now state workers get this day off. (Next week, repeat this sentiment, but for the other guy.)
Today I'm going to the college library with my laptop and a ragtag assortment of journal articles on private funding of K-12 education (culled from the notebooks of previous classes - I've been writing on this subject for two years now).
To do:
- Find a damn dayplanner. Guess I'll have to brave one of those office supply supermarkets. Good Lord! Didn't they used to be sold by every corner barber and apothecary a few years ago? Surely we haven't completely forsworn pocket-sized calendars for the online Google version yet. Don't let this happen, blogfolk! Don't let Google know where you'll be at any given hour of the day or night. This is just what they want; it's how they'll take over when the Google RevolutionTM comes.
- Rewrite my prospectus so it's acceptable to my whispering advisors. Guh. Sends shivers, the thought of having to e-mail my progress to these guys. Well, to anybody, really.
- Read, read, read. Write, write, write. Repeat.
- I'd better get in some work on my other class. We'll be analyzing the organizational structure of a public agency. In this case, the Army Corp of Engineers. Should be an interesting group project: one member of our team is down on the ACE because they save wetlands and are the bane of housing developers. As I live near a beautiful wetlands area and (soon to be) preserve (if there's any justice), I told the group I'm pretty grateful to the ACE. Looking forward to some good debate.
I thought that you weren't supposed to have much of an opinion about the agency being studied? That's how it was presented to us last year.
In any case, at least you have the day off to work on your thesis. I'm building a mailing list.
Posted by: maya | February 12, 2007 at 09:58 AM
Also, I know that it's overbearing and intrusive on some level, especially since they combined the blogger id with Google accounts (which is different from the e-mail and calendar id that I use, and thus a P.I.A. to switch between), but I like Google calendar. Especially since it links to my Remember the Milk account.
But neither have eliminated my need for a handheld or paper.
Posted by: may | February 12, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Why not do a paper on the following: "Athletic Departments: Big Wastes of Time and Money or Merely Parasites on the Body Academic?"
I'd be more than happy to throw in my $200K on the subject...
Posted by: Anthony | February 12, 2007 at 12:58 PM