Idiot-Free Day

This was an idiot-free day, one in which I worked from home (cutting down on the office idiot exposure), didn't have to deal with IP Communications idiots (I recently fired them), and had very little exposure at all to the real world.  Callie and I did enjoy exceptional service and great food at Pappasito's earlier.  It is really sad that society in general has become so incompetent that I'm almost amazed when something is done well, or that I am compelled to have a journal title reflect this amazement. 

I'm getting ready to make a serious push on the dissertation.  The redesign of the site is largely complete and most of the nitpicky little problems worked out, so it will go into maintenance mode.  I'm set up for a lengthy (and my last) housesitting gig and have moved one of the computers over here, so even though I split time between two places, I'll be ready to write wherever.  It's too hot to do much of anything outdoors right now, and I have a great, peaceful, wooded area over here for lots of contemplation.  I should make a good run at it for a while.  

On C-SPAN earlier I saw someone who looked quite familiar giving a talk at a conference.  Turns out it was the American Political Science Association conference, and none other than Frank Niles, someone I knew in grad school at UH.  Frank is now an assistant professor somewhere, and doing what assistant professors of political science do:  giving ridiculously narrow, academic papers at ridiculously narrow, academic conferences.  Since the grad program forced us through a certain core of "the literature" (with particular focus on quantitative methods), I was able to follow what was going on.  It was pretty sad.  Callie admitted she had no idea what he was talking about.  Unless one is trained in the silly ways of academia and a discipline that tries hard to be irrelevant, one wouldn't.  Have I mentioned lately that it's good not to be stuck in academia doing THAT?  I have, actually.  Now I have again.

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