Saturday, September 25, 2010

thoughts of an indexer

Things I am learning at work:
  • I need to write a will and so do you.
  • Leave your family more than $1 in your will. It looks better.
  • Also don't be a racist.
  • Also name your kids a normal name. Esther Lester, Edward Pancake and Charles Charles are not normal names.
  • Driving is really dangerous, and death certificates are not fun to read.
  • If you end up with a job as a register of wills, please write legibly.
  • The feminine form of executor is executrix. One can also be a testatrix or an administratrix.
  • Podcasts help the time go by. RadioLab and This American Life have been good to me.
  • However, headphones start to fall apart when used for eight hours a day.
  • Coffee.
  • Two of my favorite albums ever have turned out to be "Agaetis Byrjun" by Sigur Ros and "Gulag Orkestar" by Beirut. Can't get enough.
  • Okay the last one is the most interesting:
I think that I am convinced that aliens exist. Not logically convinced because I don't know if that is possible. But between reading C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy and listening to a couple Radio Labs on space (and the Voyager Golden Record which is SO FASCINATING), I have decided that I want to think that there is someone else out there. It makes sense I guess. There's a lot of stuff in the universe besides Earth, so I think maybe there is more life than just on Earth. I don't know. I'll probably never know. But maybe I'm right.

Monday, September 6, 2010

september i'll remember

books to read:
  • Leading with a Limp / Dan Allender
  • Speak, Memory / Vladimir Nabokov
  • Natasha's Dance / Orlando Figes
  • The Great Game / Peter Hopkirk
  • The Heart of Evangelism / Jerram Barrs
  • The Inner Voice of Love / Henri Nouwen
  • Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Gulag Archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • In the Sewers of Lvov / Robert Marshall
books to reread:
  • That Hideous Strength / C.S. Lewis
  • The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton
  • Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Twenty Someone / Doug Serven
  • The Master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Emma / Jane Austen