You're in Europe, aren't you? Are you launching from there?
we're flying aboard SpaceX Transporter 10 from Vandenburg SFB in California.
I just... had a huge get land in my lap as a DJ. It's weird. It's like being the bar owner when Garth Brooks shows up for a secret show like he did back in the '90s except the show isn't for four days and you can't tell anyone. Like, we're putting out press releases under embargo so that nobody knows what crazy shit is gonna happen at midnight on a Sunday. And it looks like a letter I wrote a couple-three weeks ago is going to make about 50 hard-working women about $30m a year. Which is CRAZY but a couple people i know who between them have been the head of benefits for like six giant corporations you've heard of said "normally this would be commissioned by inside counsel to get drafted by outside counsel by the company you're sending it to, not the other way around, and they honestly couldn't have written something this good. They're going to have to pay it and if they don't the insurance commissioner is going to have their hides."
Started swimming again this week. I have lost the motivation to go to the gym a while ago but it's painfully obvious that I really need some form of cardio if I want to have the stamina for a busy/fun life. Cancelling my membership there when I can. There was a period of my life where I was a gym rat, and last year it's been great for recovery workouts, but it doesn't work for me anymore. I just don't have any strength goals, am not the insecure twentysomething that needs strength to compensate for confidence, and don't enjoy going to the gym enough to get motivation from there. Swimming is something that I do enjoy a lot. It combines the runners-high that I get (only after weeks) from the repetitive movement, it sends my heart racing but forces me to stay calm and keep down my breath, and I always feel good afterwards.
Meetup reminder: March the 7th, 06:00 PM ETS, so about week from now. After getting positive poll responses, I'm drafting an elective course. One of those 'proof writing for not just math majors' you have in the US. So much for doing less paperwork, but this one at least doesn't feel purposeless.
Good friend of mine served as an adjunct prof, and suffered with low enrollment for a couple years. Then he offered a new course, an elective, on top of his standard PHYS 201 and PHYS 302 stuff: The Physics of Superheros. After that, he didn't have enrollment issues. I think people went through the course catalog and decided to have him as their prof for the standard stuff because he was teaching the superheros course, which filled up pretty dang fast. Marketing genius.
In Australia, we're all wondering who this is.
Reading log for last week: Started Middlemarch Started Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke - Not sure yet if this one is useful or yelling at clouds. Read Ulalume by Edgar Allen Poe. I had seen the first stanza a few times but never the whole piece The leaves they were crispéd and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; The skies they were ashen and sober;