Being happy
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope:
But she was not a woman to be unhappy because she was growing old. Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, – never reached but always coming. She, however, had not looked for happiness to love and loveliness, and need not therefore be disappointed on that score. She had never really determined what it was that might make her happy, – having some hazy aspiration after social distinction and literary fame, in which was ever commingled solicitude respecting money.
Tricky
I’ve decided where I’m going to go to grad school! I’m very excited about the lab, the school, the new place.
But I’m not excited about moving. Partly because of the actual pain of moving and partly because moving is going to be really expensive.
Unfortunately, a lot of the work I need to do before I leave is paid out of an insufficient grant – that means I only get paid half or a third of the hours I actually work. Normally I wouldn’t be willing to do that, but, well, I’d really like to get a publication out of my undergrad research and that’s how it has to happen. So my paychecks are going to be very skimpy the next few months.
Plus, I probably won’t see any of my stipend until I’ve been in awesome new town a few months.
Looks like I’m going to have to get clever in the next few months.
Sunday Song
Journalism today / Journalism a century ago
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope:
The ‘Evening Pulpit’ was supposed to give daily to its readers all that had been said and done up to two o’clock in the day by all the leading people in the metropolis, and to prophesy with wonderful accuracy what would be the sayings and doings of the twelve following hours. This was effected with an air of wonderful omniscience, and not infrequently with an ignorance hardly surpassed by its arrogance. But the writing was clever. The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive.
Relatively ignorant
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