Feb. 15th, 2007

*smirk*

Feb. 15th, 2007 08:23 am
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How embarrassing for Oregon. Our long-time athletic director recently lost his job because he wasn't able to get our #1 donor, Nike's Phil Knight, to give us a new basketball arena (Mac Court is intimidating and cool but really, really old). It's embarrassing enough that the main requirement for the position is to be on cozy terms with Knight, but now they've announced the new AD, and he's not only a friend of Knight's but a major donor himself. Sheesh.
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The project that took up nearly the whole day was R's Valentine present. He'd whimsically suggested in passing that I should compose some verse in iambic pentameter and embroider it onto one of his thermal undershirts. Naturally, I couldn't resist, but it took about seven hours, because first I misjudged how big to make the letters, and it's also really hard to embroider on something so stretchy. Also I gave him an orchid plant and a box of chocolates. He gave me a teddy bear, a pretty bouquet, and a piece of garden art:


So today I really need to get Tuesday's work done!

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If I'm a Very Good Girl, then I can read Dweck's paper on implicit theories of morality and explore the Journal of the History of Ideas too.
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This is from a critique of social psychology (and, in passing, economics), but I think anybody I know would have fun reading it.

The Martian Institute or Foundation for Furthering Science (MIFFS) Earth Sport Section (MIFFSESS)was convening for its 10th year. Up to this time, the Research Program had been entirely devoted to a thorough study of one simple earth sport that the earthlings call tennis. Progress was rapid, and many laboratories were engaged in the enterprise. Thus, it was quite a shock when a few scientists at the 9th MIFFSESS meeting suggested that MIFFSESS support research on the uninvestigated sport of football, at some cost to the tennis program. The tennis researchers pointed out, with some justice, that they had made great progress and now understood the scoring, physics, and other aspects of the sport. Yet there were still many problems to be tackled in the microanalysis of the game. There was, for example, the well-known “yellow ball problem.” A yellow ball was used on only some occasions, and no one could predict this distinct occurrence. Pigment analyses of the yellow ball were just beginning. “Why,” asked the tennis workers, “commit money to the murky enterprise of football when such good problems remain with tennis?” Nonetheless, in Year 9 a small amount of money was budgeted for the following year for the investigation of football. And now, the Committee had to evaluate the proposals.

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Tonight's dinner compensated for last night's (which was at El Corral, probably the only restaurant within miles that didn't have a huge wait). We got food from Chef's Kitchen, our neighborhood Swiss-PNW restaurant. We started with duck quesadillas, then R. had more duck (Muscovy Duck Portofino), which involved port-soaked cherries in brown sauce, and I had Scampi Richelieu, which had artichoke hearts, mushrooms, capers, and tomatoes in a bechamel sauce, with pasta and the shrimp and some smoked salmon.

I seem to be committed to revising my yellowjacket essay after all, having gotten an extension until April 1. I guess we know what I'll be doing during spring break...

Also, I called my dad to ask how he's doing. He says he's fallen twice within the past two weeks but at least hasn't broken anything this time.

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