I feel really good about my first exam. I think I did what I was supposed to do, but I haven't gotten results back yet. My other exam is coming up in a few weeks. Maybe I'll receive results for both of them at the same time.
We spent last week looking for a new, cheaper apartment. We found one Thursday and have been moving since. We are totally out of the old one and in to the new one. Today is for putting the last few odds and ends away. We ended up staying in the same complex but went down to one bedroom. Strangely, it actually feels a lot better than our two bedroom did. This really disturbs me and I'm wracking my brain trying to figure out how this space feels so much better. There are some important home-design principles hiding from me right now, but I'll smoke them out.
I also put a ton of books up for sale on Amazon. One has already sold. Don't know if I'll post again before the next exam, but I have a bunch of post topics lining up in my head for later this summer.
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Just dropping a note to let you know that I am studying for my comprehensive PhD exams. I have one next Thursday, then I will spend another month reading for my other one in the beginning of July. Till then, I doubt I'll post much here.
But I have blogging plans and will be back.
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I was glad to wake up this morning...
I'd had this really bad dream last night that President Obama was proposing some kind of "preventative detention" idea. You know, basically saying that people can be kept as prisoners indefinitely, not because they had committed any crime for which they can be prosecuted, but because we are afraid they may do something horrible in the future. I even imagined he was going to one-up his predecessor by creating a legal framework for doing so.
I think my subconscious was trying to deal with some of the horror that I felt (and still feel) at the idea of invading another country because it may have the intention and capability of doing something horrible in the future. I think my mind was just trying to work that trauma out through a crazy nightmare where Obama morphed into a neocon proposing policy that goes against the core of what I believe to be the morality that makes our country great.
Luckily, I did wake up, and I'm sure it was just a dream. I'm excited to read the news and see what Obama really said in his speech yesterday.
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