Manahmanah
Nov. 7th, 2006 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Doot DOO doo doo-doo.
Currently at UW: 7.2, with a very floaty mist, which was, no doubt surprisingly to the onlooker, quite pleasant to walk home in. As opposed to the heavy light rain I walked up, which largely drenched small parts of me, and which drove the humans back out of the park. The only zoo critters standing out in the rain were, oddly, the emus. Nothing flaps those emus--except a little yappy dog that charged at one of them yesterday. And I noted today that the reason the pond swans were apparently missing, and hence possibly penned, the other day is apprently that, when the humans are gone, they are given to taking rather amazingly long strolls through the park. High today: 9.6.
Down to 30-something pages of B&N today. At this rate of decrease, it'll take me ages to approach zero. I might even finish the book first!
Spent most of my time at the library today being agonized by the reading and reviewing of a journal submission, with mass choral accompaniment. I am considering taking L's laptop and microphone to the periodicals floor, and creating art. "Voices From the Library"? "HELLO? I'M IN THE LIBRARY!"? At least there's so much jabber, now, that it's hard to pick out any given thing that any given person's saying.
It occurred to me yesterday that the sensible thing to do would be to take all the books and journals out of the library and put them somewhere else, because right now, obviously, they're only getting in the way of what most people are actually using the library for.
Oh, oh, yes, speaking of reviewing journal submissions, the latest American Philosophical Quarterly, featuring the annual editorial, is now on the shelves, with exciting news on the Callow Aspirant situation! The editor expresses his gratitude to everyone for heeding last year's appeal (really?) and beating down the Callow Aspirants--who would be now, then, just callow, perhaps sallow, indubitably sullen, and no longer aspirant. He does, anyway, make the point, which is something that has struck me as an obvious problem, generally, that this year's reduction in the Callow Aspirant population has produced an increase in the journal's acceptance rate, which would, normally, be taken as an indicator that the quality of the journal is slipping. (Ethics's <5% acceptance rate looks pretty impressive at first glance, but you have to figure, to get an acceptance rate like that, you have to attract a lot of crap.)
Currently at UW: 7.2, with a very floaty mist, which was, no doubt surprisingly to the onlooker, quite pleasant to walk home in. As opposed to the heavy light rain I walked up, which largely drenched small parts of me, and which drove the humans back out of the park. The only zoo critters standing out in the rain were, oddly, the emus. Nothing flaps those emus--except a little yappy dog that charged at one of them yesterday. And I noted today that the reason the pond swans were apparently missing, and hence possibly penned, the other day is apprently that, when the humans are gone, they are given to taking rather amazingly long strolls through the park. High today: 9.6.
Down to 30-something pages of B&N today. At this rate of decrease, it'll take me ages to approach zero. I might even finish the book first!
Spent most of my time at the library today being agonized by the reading and reviewing of a journal submission, with mass choral accompaniment. I am considering taking L's laptop and microphone to the periodicals floor, and creating art. "Voices From the Library"? "HELLO? I'M IN THE LIBRARY!"? At least there's so much jabber, now, that it's hard to pick out any given thing that any given person's saying.
It occurred to me yesterday that the sensible thing to do would be to take all the books and journals out of the library and put them somewhere else, because right now, obviously, they're only getting in the way of what most people are actually using the library for.
Oh, oh, yes, speaking of reviewing journal submissions, the latest American Philosophical Quarterly, featuring the annual editorial, is now on the shelves, with exciting news on the Callow Aspirant situation! The editor expresses his gratitude to everyone for heeding last year's appeal (really?) and beating down the Callow Aspirants--who would be now, then, just callow, perhaps sallow, indubitably sullen, and no longer aspirant. He does, anyway, make the point, which is something that has struck me as an obvious problem, generally, that this year's reduction in the Callow Aspirant population has produced an increase in the journal's acceptance rate, which would, normally, be taken as an indicator that the quality of the journal is slipping. (Ethics's <5% acceptance rate looks pretty impressive at first glance, but you have to figure, to get an acceptance rate like that, you have to attract a lot of crap.)
