apparently I’m going to a rocky horror picture show “event” showing at the local $3 theatre.

It should be interesting.

a huge plastic debris field is causing some scientists to worry about invasive species.

Really? In the OCEAN!? INVASIVE SPECIES…IN AN OCEAN…THAT COVERS 30% OF THE WORLD’S SURFACE…

I’m reasonably certain that unless we turn adaptation backwards, and mammals start invading the sea, there can’t be invasive species.

This makes no sense to me.

Yes, that amount of plastic junk is ridiculous and should be cleaned up…but invasive species? Invading the largest area on the surface of the planet? In an environment that requires a natural ability to live in high concentrations of salt? I hardly think invasive is the word…

maybe pervasive.

I have trouble sometimes differentiating between nick nolte and gary (sp?) busey. But then I remember that Busey is bat shit crazy, and it helps.

I plan on getting a haircut today. My barber’s name is Ed. He’s a pretty cool cat.

is getting real old real fast. I’ve got the approval from the chair and the third reader, but nothing yet from the second reader. This wouldn’t be so bad if said second reader would communicate once in a while, but I hear nothing for months at a time (of course, she heard nothing from me for months at a time…sooooo….more on that in a bit), and the deadline for the end of the semester is coming up right quick.

Now, she’s had to go months without hearing from me. That HAPPENS, near as I can tell, in any dissertation while the chair and the student are working on the situation. So that isn’t really a valid excuse for not communicating. And honestly, I don’t hassle her that much at all each time I send something. Usually I’ll inquire at about the 5 or 6 week mark (their limit), but then I don’t hear anything back for weeks. It makes me very irritated.

So right now, I’m teaching two classes at Ventura, waiting for Kaplan to start up, and trying to keep myself from traveling down to where I send the dissertation to talk to this committee member in person.

It’s not my preferred situation to be in.

uff. dissertation. Is it over yet? Honestly?

Also, I hate this “quickpress” box in the wordpress admin…I liked it much better when the default page that opened up was the stats and then a quick link to add a post…now though, you’ve got to click a couple menu items in order to get to post except for this quickpress thing which sucks because it is so small.

Gah!

ranting when things are going well. I am just throwin’ that out there.

maybe by tonight I’ll have something angry to rant about. Grrrr.

I was mentioned on talk radio in Utah today, on KNVU, we were talking about plagiarism and such. They wanted me to call in, but I didn’t. I don’t want the governing body of mormons to have a voice print of me.

Thanks, Loralee…it was good times in the chat room.

that’s how I feel about neglecting ye olde ranting blog. I’ll start blogging again in due time.

Many apologies.