I sit here, typing merrily, with Maverick on the television and looking back on a thoroughly ambivalent day. In the absence of full mental stimulation all days become a mire of ambivalent sludge. In fact, ambivalent apathetic tedium. Fortunately job hunting has paid off with a couple of nice opportunities and corrections continue steadily. Ten days until completion by my best estimate. A lack of whimsy means this may be a <gasp> serious blog entry.
Looking for research postings can be an awfully hard business, especially in these times of economic hardship. Almost all mathematical research is funded at least in part by government resources and is always hit hard in recessions. Ah, recessions, here's a serious point. By 'eliminating' fast booms and busts we now have loooooong booms and busts which hurt more people and for longer. Perhaps the old short booms and busts weren't so bad? I'm no economist.
Maverick's been forced into a boxing match. Go on, Bret, go on! And... he won. Not bad against someone with twice the mass. Little underdogs always win boxing matches on television shows.
Not much to write about at the moment. It may be that life content is dropping quickly. If I were a movie, people would be out buying popcorn. A book this dull would sit in library deep storage somewhere before being sold off. Some persistence is required to get from the grim, lonely beginning to the grim, confusing second act and then the grim, tedious current phase. At least I have fingers to type with!
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I now return you to your regularly presented entertainments and go looking for adult hula hoops.
Awestruck Oliver.
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