now.employed

This is a picture of a man with a job!

she.was.right

Just when you think you may have to take a job you really don't want...Just when you get locked into something that could throw everything off...But you think you can get through it...All the interviews come.

Yeah so I have another interview tomorrow at 2pm at another school for another Physics teaching position. Oh, and I have also, essentially, been offered a job as a contract tutor for high school math and science students.

What do you know.

fall.lineup

Here are some fall network shows of note. All are continuations of shows that I have watched the entire season at least twice except where noted.


Arrested Development - Mondays @ 8pm
Season 2 Premiere 9/19/2005

House - Tuesdays @ 9pm
Season 3 Premiere 9/13/2005

Family Guy - Sundays @ 9pm
New Episodes Start 9/11/2005



Lost - Wednesdays @ 9pm
Season 2 Premiere 9/21/2005



My Name is Earl - Tuesdays @ 9pm
Series Premiere 9/20/2005

The Office - Tuesdays @ 9:30pm
Season 2 Premiere 9/20/2005

*Scrubs - NOT ON THE SCHEDULE
NO PREMIERE DATE

Note: Italics indicate a new show and therefore my recommendation is based on pre-season clips and interviews and does not necessitate that I will watch this show consistently.

*A note on Scrubs: This show is one of the funniest shows on television. In fact, prior to House it was the best doctor show on TV and this is not just on my authority but also on the authority of many medical professionals who say that the dynamic and the whole hospital environment as portrayed on the show is a better representation than anything else before it. Regardless I hope we get another season out of it and at least get a real finale.

sunday.recreation

Erin and I went for a bike ride along the Charles River on Sunday afternoon including a stretch of memorial drive that Cambridge closes to vehicular traffic for such purposes on Sunday afternoons in the summer.


It's been quite a while since I went on a bike ride with another human being. Of course I don't wait until some crazy hour at night to ride so as to avoid all humanity but I mean intentionally. I suppose it is a very different thing to pass and be passed by the hundreds to people out and about at any given time than to be consciously aware of a fellow rider. The biggest differences come as with any caravan situation whether it be automobile or pedestrian based. You have to be aware of passing and direction change decisions. To fast and your companion can miss the turn, collide with the passee, not make the pass, or in the case of stopping, crash right into you. While this is a fun game where you try to loose people while riding around at the age of 10 or so, the dynamic changes with time and company.

Like any collective endeavor the group or couple bike ride requires communication. After all it can be equally bad to lead too slowly (thereby causing the competitive and aggressive personality endless frustration) as too fast (leaving a slower companion into exhaustion and anger at you the leader). The communication difficulty is compounded when, as was the case on Sunday, you are forced to ride in a line and side-by-side or pack groupings are impossible. Lots of head turning in involved and I don't have to explain how that can lead to it's own problems.

bleach.101.uses

So many uses as it turns out and yet so acrid.

I was doing a bit of bathroom and kitchen cleaning in preperation for the move-in of two new housemates and started to read some labels of common cleaners. As it turns out more than half of them seem to contain bleach or to be more precise some chlorine containing compound. So on that note I decided to make a list of 101 uses for bleach but then I realized that 101 is quite a few uses and I only had about five in mind. Oh well at least my white kitchen towels are clean and the shower floor doesn't look like it is made out of dirt.