Nuthin' makes sense anymore...

[Adsos Letter]

...just nuthin'...

[XemaSab]

1. Word.

n/t

[Adsos Letter]

3. ya know...

I haven't been around long enough to understand what "Word" means...though I see it used a lot

Help me out here XemaSab :D

[ghostsofgiants]

8. It's basically an expression of agreement, or at least acknowledgment.

[XemaSab]

9. Word.

:P

[ghostsofgiants]

12. So I'm nearing the end of "The Haunting of Hill House"...

And shall promptly borrow "We Have Always Lived In The Castle" once I finish. Good stuff.

[XemaSab]

17. Excellent.

I'm glad you're enjoying it. :)

Do you have any books you'd recommend to me? I'm looking for new stuff...

[ghostsofgiants]

18. "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danieleski is my standard recommendation.

It's pretty badass.

I don't read much fiction though. Most of my reading is non-fiction and more often than not school-related.

[XemaSab]

26. That is a book I have not yet attempted.

It's high on the list, but I am short on scrilla right now.

The whole unemployment gig ain't paying so good. :P

[ghostsofgiants]

29. I know how that is, haha.

It's a really good book though.

[XemaSab]

35. That's the word on the street.

It's a rare book that achieves true cult classic status. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

37. It's kinda like "The Haunting of Hill House" but way more epic and just fucking weird.

So of course I adore it, haha.

[XemaSab]

40. I'm sold.

:D

[Adsos Letter]

21. Whaddya' like XemaSab...

...I got some great "Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution" (1913) here...how about "Moral Purity and Persecution in History"?

Come...join my nightmare...

:D

[XemaSab]

25. Considering that I was picking through "Soil Fertility and Fertilizers" last night

your nightmare sounds *much* better than mine.

Name of the Rose was a good book, BTW.

[Adsos Letter]

30. "Soil Fertility and Fertilizers" sounds like it could actually be beneficial

...if not a bit dry...

:D

[XemaSab]

33. Trust me.

There IS a God and he loves us. Well, me, anyways.

There is no other way I could have gotten through that class than sheer divine interference. :P

[Adsos Letter]

36. What are you studying?

[XemaSab]

41. I am *done* with school

But I got my degree in soil science. :)

[Adsos Letter]

43. Ah, very good...no postbaccalaureate work for you?

[XemaSab]

45. Nah.

After (a number between 4 and a brazilian) years in school, I'm sorta over the concept.

What about you?

[Adsos Letter]

46. 2/3 the way through Grad school...then on to Doctoral studies...

...at least that is the plan...we'll see...

[XemaSab]

47. History?

Where you studying at?

(I too am a vagrant Californian :) )

[Adsos Letter]

49. SSU...plan on doing the Doctoral work at UC Davis...

[XemaSab]

50. Sactown...

One of my many former homes... :P

Davis, however, I have never lived in. Seems like a cool town.

Why Davis for the doctoral work?

[Adsos Letter]

51. They have a couple of professors there who are experts in the area

I focus on...mainly fringe groups in American and European History, and how their beliefs about the future have caused them to act in the present...lots of apocalyptic/millennial stuff. Plus, I have an interest in late-19th-early-20th-century American history, and the guy who wrote "Murdering McKinley" is a professor there.

And...it has a pretty good rep, and is close to home.

Gotta' head fer bed...enjoy your weekend! We gotta' get these California DUer's busy on a get-together...

:hi:

[Adsos Letter]

11. Thankyou...

...I'd write more but I have to try to get a bug off the monitor...and it ain't workin' for me...

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Yeah, it's a pesky little fucker, isn't it?

[Adsos Letter]

15. I love that bug...it really fooled me the first time I saw it...

I just finished reading about ten books for classes and about 50 journal articles...

"Ideological Origins of the American Revolutio", :The Unknown American Revolution", "Canaanite Urban Settlement Patterns in the late Bronze Age"...Man, I MISS just reading for pleasure...

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Yeah, same for me.

Luckily Xema recommended them while I was not in school. I'm back noww, but I'm gonna try to fit in some pleasure reading too, haha.

[Adsos Letter]

22. what are you studying?

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Political science with a minor in sociology.

[Adsos Letter]

28. I've always thought Sociology sounded interesting...

it's difficult to do history without it...

I've been curious about the sociology of fringe religious groups, like those snake-handlers back in West Virginia...

[ghostsofgiants]

31. I really like it.

Covers some realy interesting topics. Hell, I even liked the classical social theory course I did, and shit like that is usually boring as hell.

[ThomCat]

2. Anymore? When did it make sense before?

:shrug:

[Adsos Letter]

6. the older I get, the less sense things make...

plus...I'm reading and writing my way through a graduate program in History right now...after all the years of reading some things just make a whole lot less sense...maybe I'm just jaded...

[bridgit]

4. agreed as a summary judgment...

[Adsos Letter]

5. ah...thankyou bridgit...

did you enjoy our rain?

[bridgit]

7. we are so ready for some steady rain, woke up in the night the other...

and heard the rain...it was like some Twilight Zone episode where they never get any rain and then they start dreaming of it; shit like that, but in the morning everything was wet and we thought, "Cool...it is still possible." :hi:

[Adsos Letter]

10. Yeah...it felt good...I love the smell of a light rain on hot streets in the evening...

...reminds me of...victory...

This Summer's gonna' end some day, ya know...

:D

[bridgit]

14. yep, some day; we're actually Autumn People, so while we enjoy the summer...

we long for fall...weird huh? i already have pumpkins on my screen saver :bounce: and we can't wait for the Pumpkin Festival in Half Moon Bay :shrug:

[Adsos Letter]

16. Autumn and Spring are good around here...

Winter can be OK, in bits and pieces, if ya' don't have to go outside much...but as much driving as you guys do...

[bridgit]

20. omg yes!! one days worth of rain and already people are skidding into each other...

how soon we forget :(

[Adsos Letter]

24. And it's a big deal on the news every year about this time...

Every.Single.Year.

:D

[bridgit]

34. Honey!! Look! It's WATER falling from the sky!!!!

:wow:

[Adsos Letter]

38. Yes...AMAZING...

...:rofl:...

[Writer]

27. Yeah, I've pretty much given up, too.

[Adsos Letter]

32. Hi Writer...

...ya' know, it ain't the given up that's gotten to me...it's the all the stuff I used to "know" I don't "Know" anymore...

I think I'm just burnt out on reading and writing...much as I love it, I think I'm becoming a bit jaded on things...

:)

[Writer]

39. I hear you.

I've become jaded on reading, writing, politics, mentors, husbands, friends, and dental care.

I'm sure I missed something there.

Hope you're well, despite...

[Adsos Letter]

42. I am, indeed, well...

and you all have lightened my mood some...it's 12:30 here ...time to gather up "The Cheese and the Worms" by Ginzburg and head to bed for a couple hours reading

It's about the "intellectual world" of some 16th-century Friulian peasant, as determined from records of two doses of the Inquisition he endured...we'll see...gotta' write a historiographical study on it...

You be well...

:hi:

[Writer]

44. Historiographical studies make me antsy in a good way...

yup. Enjoy!

[Adsos Letter]

48. Thanks for the conversation everyone...

...time to grab a book and head fer bed...

"Night night,
sleep tight,
don't let the bedbugs
bite, bite, bite..."

:hi: