The State of the Hombre

I guess I'm gonna have to ask all of your patience this semester. Ol' Teo is strapped these days (strapped?), and I'm not sure if much quality material will be coming forth on a regular basis. I'm not sure where I'll find the time to do all that is on my calendar as it is. I like the Hombre blog. I just wish I could do it some justice.

The good news is that my dissertation proposal is looking pretty good. I hope to submit it for approval in about a month. My committee will include the author of this book: I've linked to this book before, because it is the single greatest psychology book I've read. The fact that the author of the book...a Chicago guy...is on my dissertation committee is downright panic inducing. My committee has three heavyweights on it, so my next 18 months will be, um, hard.

And with the addition of some midterms and papers and readings and interviews and blah blah blah on my plate I'm pretty much always doing something, even when I'm doing nothing. And the school lost my financial aid, which kinda sucks, and you can read about my fantastic reaction to that below.

So all of this is to say that I can at this point write about two things: 1) my schedule, which is pretty boring (Hey! Did you read Teo's blog! He's busy! Let's comment!), or 2) my observation that a lady pressed the elevator button continuously yesterday, after I had already waited five minutes for the vater, and then she showed up and pressed it about 25 times in a row and the elevator opened, and I thought, jeez, why didn't I think of hitting the button 25 times rather than once.

Either way, the blog is not full of very interesting material these days. My apologies, and I hope I don't lose you all forever.