A monkey and his key-bored: What to do?.?.? What to do.?.?.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What to do?.?.? What to do.?.?.

I finally turned my dissertation in. They rarely tell you that after you work on the damn document for awhile and successfully defend it, you have to make several rounds of corrections before you turn it in forever (this is how I feel about turning it in):

The real question is where do I got from here? I felt a bulletted (sp?) list would be the best way to describe my future direction:

Continue exploring Denver

Food
Mountains
Beer (really any booze)

Get back to Jiu Jitsu (my deal with myself was I would not start up again until my dissertation was turned in)
Begin publishing my dissertation (that is right, I am never rid of it)
Begin other writing

Policy briefs
Other Articles
My Novel (it's about a young boy and his playful childhood pup)

Apply for jobs (right now I have a healthy list that I am applying for, they all seem to be east of the might Mississippi.

Well that is my short list. As for blogging, I am planning on doing another segment of restaurants I have eaten at, as well as some other video stuff. Until then...

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AnonymousOctober 27, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Anxious to hear about more resturants....and your comings and goings and publishings! Love, mom
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Where am I? This isn't my beautiful life (Heads, T. 1980)!

Why the name???
One of my favorite sayings in the world is, "If you give a monkey a typewriter and infinity, he will write the Bible (you can insert any great book here as to not offend a religion)." I love this quote because it really makes several interesting statements. At it's heart it is a comment on probability. Basically saying that if you try at something long enough you are bound to succeed...no matter how deficient you are. It is the basis of science, failure begets failure, until we learn enough from failures that we are able to succeed, and I love science.

I also feel like this statement reminds us all that we shouldn't get too impressed with our abilities as a human race. We are not so far away from that monkey clunking away on the typewriter. Yes, we have invented many wonderful things. But, we have also participated in some horrible wars over odd things, excluded and hurt people simply because they are different, and created general mayhem on the environment. Despite the Parthenon, Shakespeare's sonnets, and our religious tomes we are just one small incident away from becoming monkey's chucking spears (or poop). The image should keep us all humble.

I often feel when I am authoring a blog that I am trying to create something meaningful that will, at the least, entertain people. Associated with that feeling, I often feel like I am flailing miserably. However, I shall keep hacking away, hoping some day probability prevails and I write something meaningful. In the event I do write something worthwhile, I hope I am level headed enough to remember my second point. If not, the five of you who read this blog can feel free to remind me.

And what about keyboard being spelled key-bored? Aside from the fact I utilize the English language like a dog would handle a paintbrush, bored refers to the emotion that usually precedes my writing, boredom. Get it? It is my attempt at being clever and deep.