Falling Behind
Apr. 22nd, 2004 05:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosMy friends are quite prolific -- and there are a few more of you than there used to be. I didn't even have the chance to read and respond to yesterday's posts.
Last night was Women In Transition, which was a good time. I've committed to developing my class "The Lamp and the Mirror: Illuminating and Reflecting On Spiritual Life" before summer. This is *after* I finish my final papers for my two classes, but it's my turn to step up and start teaching. My assignments are to gather information on likely venues and develop my course outline into more detailed lesson plans.
I have "Christian Ethics" class tonight, and won't be home until after 9pm. We have to present a one-paragraph description of our final paper topic. I was going to look at assisted suicide (which I think should be legal) - but I may instead examine plural marriage. Our thoughts about marriage seem to form out of a whole series of assumptions about the "natural" qualities and roles of males and females, religious codes, ideas about power and body ownership. . . I was doing some online research yetserday. One site that advocates polygamy because it is biblically-based reject polyandry (one woman with multiple husbands) because it violates nature and the Bible. (To quote The King and I: "Flower must not go from bee to bee to bee!") Where do our ethics depend on our assumptions about nature?
Feel free to weigh in on the topic if you have thoughts, opinions or questions.
Finally: perhaps this will become a meme?
I love the beauty, creativity and self-expression of LJ icons. I also enjoy the masking effect. I only know what a couple of you look like. A few of you I know from everyday life. Two or three of you have icons with your photos. But the rest of you are mysteries to me -- as I am to you.
So, without looking at my Info Page, I'd like those of you who don't know what I look like: How old am I? What do I look like? What is my personal style of dress? What do you imagine when (if) you picture me?
Those of you who know me can do this too if my verbal image doesn't quite match with my actual appearance.
And meanwhile, I'll do my best to get caught up with all your entries as best I can. But please understand if I fall behind in conversations!
Dad's surgery is tomorrow morning. I'll be at the hospital all day. More on that this evening.
Last night was Women In Transition, which was a good time. I've committed to developing my class "The Lamp and the Mirror: Illuminating and Reflecting On Spiritual Life" before summer. This is *after* I finish my final papers for my two classes, but it's my turn to step up and start teaching. My assignments are to gather information on likely venues and develop my course outline into more detailed lesson plans.
I have "Christian Ethics" class tonight, and won't be home until after 9pm. We have to present a one-paragraph description of our final paper topic. I was going to look at assisted suicide (which I think should be legal) - but I may instead examine plural marriage. Our thoughts about marriage seem to form out of a whole series of assumptions about the "natural" qualities and roles of males and females, religious codes, ideas about power and body ownership. . . I was doing some online research yetserday. One site that advocates polygamy because it is biblically-based reject polyandry (one woman with multiple husbands) because it violates nature and the Bible. (To quote The King and I: "Flower must not go from bee to bee to bee!") Where do our ethics depend on our assumptions about nature?
Feel free to weigh in on the topic if you have thoughts, opinions or questions.
Finally: perhaps this will become a meme?
I love the beauty, creativity and self-expression of LJ icons. I also enjoy the masking effect. I only know what a couple of you look like. A few of you I know from everyday life. Two or three of you have icons with your photos. But the rest of you are mysteries to me -- as I am to you.
So, without looking at my Info Page, I'd like those of you who don't know what I look like: How old am I? What do I look like? What is my personal style of dress? What do you imagine when (if) you picture me?
Those of you who know me can do this too if my verbal image doesn't quite match with my actual appearance.
And meanwhile, I'll do my best to get caught up with all your entries as best I can. But please understand if I fall behind in conversations!
Dad's surgery is tomorrow morning. I'll be at the hospital all day. More on that this evening.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2004-04-28 09:03 pm (UTC)I switched because I was unemployed and needed a job. I happened to know the right people, and BAM, here I am.
I stayed because biology is so interesting. I'm not really a mathematician or a computer guy, I'm a scientist. I like solving problems. I like learning things no one else knows.
I am going into biochemistry sort of by default, because they're the university that isn't UT that accepted me. Which is fine, because their program is really good and their people are neat. Biochem is more my kind of task anyway, as compared to what I would be doing here, which is managine hoards of data, and then analyzing it. But this data has so many dimensions it's hard to even make, much less keep track of and make meaningful.
Before this I mostly had experience doing web development, but also a variety of other things.