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Thursday, August 14, 2008 Memes Old and New Booking Through Thursday: Gold Medal Reading First: Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? I do not recall reading anything about the Olympics or sports in general in fiction or non-fiction. Second: Do you consider yourself a sports fan? No. This is probably the reason for the answer in the first part. I usually do not go out of my way to read something in a subject that I do not care about or have any interest in. (I also have not seen or read about the current Olympics. At all.) Addendum: I apologize for sounding so abrupt, but I've been really stuck in lab lately. Generally, I work 50 to 60 hrs a week (this week, it's more like 70), at least and lately, I am feeling very paranoid after overhearing a post-doc complaining about grad students working even less than flaky undergrads. Booking Through Thursday: Other Worlds Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live? Or where you certainly would NOT want to live? What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life? As I told someone yesterday, it's hard to articulate what to like. It's much easier to say what to dislike. I definitely do not want to live in a world where there's violence going on all the time. This means YOU, epic fantasy novels with constant warring. I also do not trust any authors who are into torturing their characters. The Thursday Threesome: "Leggo' my Eggos!" Onesome: Leggo'-- of that! Okay, is there something (sure, food works!) that shows up from time to time that you'd really like to have and someone else usually makes a grab for it? I'm thinking Christmas is coming and maybe those 'special' cookies need to be planned for... Good food always disappears before I get a crack at it. Twosome: my-- how time flies: Back to School sales are already over and I'm seeing Thanksgiving stuff in the stores! Whaddayathink: are you ready for Summertime to be over and done with? I haven't seen Thanksgiving stuff, but then again, I haven't done much shopping lately. And no, I'm not really ready for summer to end, but what can you do? Threesome: Eggos-- and the like: do you have a frozen food you keep around just because you actually like the darned thing? Frozen food is easy to cook when I get home feeling really tired. I like fresh food better, though. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 6:18 AM : ]
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I'm not a sports enthusiast either and also do not follow the Olympics (and I often feel like the only person on the planet who does not, because in my experience, most others who aren't into sports still love the Olympics).
I enjoy the Olympics when I see it, but five minutes a day is enough. Okay, maybe ten.
50 to 60 hours a week in the lab? I hope you are doing something you like. Fresh food is overrated. Give me a can of Campbells and a box of Eggos.
I'm in lab because I want to be there, not because someone is cracking the whip. I enjoy my work, but whenever someone implies that I'm a slacker, I have the urge to work harder. Although if someone tells me to my face that I don't work enough, I'm going to tell them that they should work on adding more hours to the day.
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