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Jul. 2nd, 2013 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineLots of stuff ongoing that I want to talk about and can't, due to promises made and oaths sworn. Maybe someday I'll be clear of those oaths. Summed up: some of it's more frustrating stuff, other stuff is more on the hopeful side.
Lately, I've been on a Jane Jacobs reading kick. Started with Death and Life of Great American Cities a couple of weeks back, and it seems like that one's going to take at least three or four re-reads, front to back, in order to properly make sense of it. Those of you with an urban politics/development interest will already know of this as the book that made her as a historian and activist, and started her down the road to being memorialized via the Jane's Walks in cities across the planet. Therefore, it seemed a good idea to stop putting off that particular study project.
(Also in the hopper for eventual read-throughs: Cities and the Wealth of Nations and Dark Age Ahead, for related reasons.)
Wanting to make time in between sending out resumes and doing job interviews over the phone and medical appointments to get back to learning the ins and outs of Adobe Creative Suite and Manga Studio. What versions I have access to at the moment, at least. I'm not happy with my lack of time and progress with this, and seeing as being better versed in both might be helpful on the job-search front, it feels like I'm shooting myself in the knees to save my arms at the moment by not pursuing it.
The weather's back to grey and wet here. It seems to vacillate between that state and hot and damp, so runs the impression of the last 2-3 weeks in particular. It's not anywhere near as difficult as what various communities in the prairie provinces and elsewhere across the planet are facing right now, however. Just mildly inconvenient for now.
More as it comes to mind.
Lately, I've been on a Jane Jacobs reading kick. Started with Death and Life of Great American Cities a couple of weeks back, and it seems like that one's going to take at least three or four re-reads, front to back, in order to properly make sense of it. Those of you with an urban politics/development interest will already know of this as the book that made her as a historian and activist, and started her down the road to being memorialized via the Jane's Walks in cities across the planet. Therefore, it seemed a good idea to stop putting off that particular study project.
(Also in the hopper for eventual read-throughs: Cities and the Wealth of Nations and Dark Age Ahead, for related reasons.)
Wanting to make time in between sending out resumes and doing job interviews over the phone and medical appointments to get back to learning the ins and outs of Adobe Creative Suite and Manga Studio. What versions I have access to at the moment, at least. I'm not happy with my lack of time and progress with this, and seeing as being better versed in both might be helpful on the job-search front, it feels like I'm shooting myself in the knees to save my arms at the moment by not pursuing it.
The weather's back to grey and wet here. It seems to vacillate between that state and hot and damp, so runs the impression of the last 2-3 weeks in particular. It's not anywhere near as difficult as what various communities in the prairie provinces and elsewhere across the planet are facing right now, however. Just mildly inconvenient for now.
More as it comes to mind.
