10 Years After

Let's Take A Trip Together

Today is my first day of vacation. I was going to go to the bank and open a bank account so that Monday I could just drop off the application for the apartment I want. Instead, now, I need to do that early Monday and then drop off the application. I also need to stop by the courthouse and renew my car registration. Busy - busy.

I don't have any real plans as to what to do with my vacation so I'm sure it'll just be wasted time. Hopefully I'll be able to spend some of it moving into the apartment. Initially I planned to take my vacation at this time because I thought I'd be quiting work about this time of the year and moving out of the area to graduate school. I think Valentine's day also had some factor in bidding for this week for vacation - I dimly remember that this was my second choice for vacation - the first was for back in January. Anyways, with no plans to go anywhere and most of my money tied up into possibly moving I doubt I'll go anywhere.

I think I'll try to get back into posting some to this blog more frequently. While I won't have much to publish in the way of being in class, I'll try to post things about linguistics. Strangely enough when I picked up Isaac Asimov's "Realm of Numbers" last night I found there was some intersting stuff regarding languages and numbers. I'll start with that, I think. What caused me to pick it up was thinking of Vonnegut's alter-ego Kilgore Trout while reading "Galapagos." A line in the book mentions that he wrote thousands of sci-fi stories and hundreds of books, or something like that. The most prolific sci-fi writer I can think of is Asimov, even though much of what he has written isn't sci-fi. As a side-note, I also find it so interesting that Vonnegut is so seldom described as being a science fiction writer when it seems all of the stuff from him that I have read contains science fiction elements.

The most interesting thing of late was some dish found about one of our previous professors. His CV online included a story he published in a Johns Hopkin's journal. I couldn't get the link but read the journal to read the story of how this professor overcame being . . . a crack addict! An honest to goodnes crack addict.