Republic of uninterestingness
Jan. 21st, 2014 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterI went to work yesterday. I'm trying to make headway on writing that manuscript I blogged about recently, so into the lab I went. It wasn't an entirely productive day, but it wasn't completely unproductive, either, so 'twas worthwhile in the end. Just, you know, not particularly riveting to write about.
I just have to agree with that internal voice that's telling me, "When you're trying to write something academic, it sucks out that part that might be inclined to blog about things instead." I guess Having a Thought is a lot of work. Actually, I *know* it's a lot of work because I woke up at 4 am and lay in bed trying to do it. Okay, brain, let's write that Discussion! Aaaand, go!.
Instead, I went to the Rec Center and did the Tuesday Morning workout with the Aggies. I might not be rowing this semester, but I'm going to let myself get sucked into some rowing-related things anyway. I can't help it. They're a great bunch to hang out with, plus the workouts at the Rec are great cross-training. I just can't afford the full commitment, due to having to write and publish papers.
If I weren't so busy reading about connections between dietary amino acid availability and lipid metabolism, I'd be spending some time reading the interviews published by the Paris Review, now available online (as mentioned here). Or reading more of my back copies of the New Yorker (I just finished a really interesting piece about famines and the rise of communism in China). But at least I'm almost finished reading Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land (by Gary Nabhan). Sections of the book are a bit hippie dippie woo-woo for my tastes, but at the same time Nabhan has a lot of stories about different agricultural strategies being used by arid-land farmers around the globe, and the stories are insightful. So are many of the recommendations for plant varieties, and ideas about how to plan out growing spaces to accommodate regional projections based on climate change models.
Fiction next. Probably Moby Dick. Or maybe Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Or Bill Bryson's book, Notes from a Small Island. Okay, that last one isn't fiction.
I just have to agree with that internal voice that's telling me, "When you're trying to write something academic, it sucks out that part that might be inclined to blog about things instead." I guess Having a Thought is a lot of work. Actually, I *know* it's a lot of work because I woke up at 4 am and lay in bed trying to do it. Okay, brain, let's write that Discussion! Aaaand, go!.
Instead, I went to the Rec Center and did the Tuesday Morning workout with the Aggies. I might not be rowing this semester, but I'm going to let myself get sucked into some rowing-related things anyway. I can't help it. They're a great bunch to hang out with, plus the workouts at the Rec are great cross-training. I just can't afford the full commitment, due to having to write and publish papers.
If I weren't so busy reading about connections between dietary amino acid availability and lipid metabolism, I'd be spending some time reading the interviews published by the Paris Review, now available online (as mentioned here). Or reading more of my back copies of the New Yorker (I just finished a really interesting piece about famines and the rise of communism in China). But at least I'm almost finished reading Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land (by Gary Nabhan). Sections of the book are a bit hippie dippie woo-woo for my tastes, but at the same time Nabhan has a lot of stories about different agricultural strategies being used by arid-land farmers around the globe, and the stories are insightful. So are many of the recommendations for plant varieties, and ideas about how to plan out growing spaces to accommodate regional projections based on climate change models.
Fiction next. Probably Moby Dick. Or maybe Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Or Bill Bryson's book, Notes from a Small Island. Okay, that last one isn't fiction.
