Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
I'm going to be a f*cking ecologist
I'm heading to UCSB in the fall to work with the best ever advisor on a PhD in Ecology!!!!! They're even giving me a year of money to start!! I'm overwhelmed with excitement and terror! But a good kind of terror..
Dunno yet if I need to start in Sept or June, so I can't entirely make plans, but I just know I will know soon. And It Feels So Good. I can at least start visualizing my life.
It's almost 3am, so I should get to sleep, but HALLELUJAH!
Monday, March 21, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Quick visit to Sonoma State yesterday. I hadn't been to MS only programs before, and I could definitely sense the absence of intensity. Beautiful country, though. Had some good chats with the grad students there, but then of course they'll be gone by the time I'd start. They seem to like me. I wish someone would just send me an offer.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
More of the same
I do like crazy hats, square scarves, and scarves in general.
Yes to wide brim fedoras on women!
The possibilities of the hybrid sweater coat. Is it still technically just a cardigan?
Monday, March 14, 2011
Catching up on the Sartorialist
This I think I could do.
The ribbons are beyond what I could pull off, but I like the romantic disheveled look of it. I want to say the colors are too bright, but my own rain coat is even brighter than hers.
Ooo.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Bows and arrows, oh my
I could see myself carrying a quiver of arrows...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Red scare, pt.3
One more tidbit.
When Duf Sundheim mentioned that 50% of the income tax collected in California comes from 144,000 individuals, someone hooted and shouted, '...and it's not enough!"
Yes, Mr. Sundheim allowed, globalization has caused a problematic redistribution of wealth. Taxes can be used to compensate for that to some degree. No argument there. But when you're making obscene amounts of money, you don't make that much money every year. So, when half your tax base has wildly variable income, your state budget becomes wildly variable -- especially to predict.
He didn't suggest we shift more of the tax burden to the incomes of the rest of us; he pointed out that thanks to prop 13 our property taxes are pretty out of whack (and I have to say, I agree with him there). Property, unlike income, is pretty stable and has the benefit of being unable to move out of Cayman Islands when it strikes it rich. I don't want to kick little old ladies out of their homes, but the situation is dire. Without more money for education, we're screwing over generations of future Californians. Not to mention the rest of our social services.
When Duf Sundheim mentioned that 50% of the income tax collected in California comes from 144,000 individuals, someone hooted and shouted, '...and it's not enough!"
Yes, Mr. Sundheim allowed, globalization has caused a problematic redistribution of wealth. Taxes can be used to compensate for that to some degree. No argument there. But when you're making obscene amounts of money, you don't make that much money every year. So, when half your tax base has wildly variable income, your state budget becomes wildly variable -- especially to predict.
He didn't suggest we shift more of the tax burden to the incomes of the rest of us; he pointed out that thanks to prop 13 our property taxes are pretty out of whack (and I have to say, I agree with him there). Property, unlike income, is pretty stable and has the benefit of being unable to move out of Cayman Islands when it strikes it rich. I don't want to kick little old ladies out of their homes, but the situation is dire. Without more money for education, we're screwing over generations of future Californians. Not to mention the rest of our social services.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Thank you, Johnny Cash Radio
New music shopping list:
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Ink Spots
Marty Robbins
Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky)
Ray Charles (I've Got a Woman)
Bruce Springsteen
The Animals (House of the Rising Sun)
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