If only I had known the power of Evian H2O

You have inspired me in a good way, and the public library in a bad way

Thank you for the encouraging responses to my previous despondent post, let's chalk that one up to a low blogging moment. But I have been inspired, but for the wrong reason.

In an effort to keep a balance between reading for school and reading for pleasure I look to the public library to fulfill my needs, and let me tell you, Edinburgh's public library does not do a very good job of purchasing those books are interesting. For some reason in the back of my head I feel I have posted on the insufficiency of the library systems (university and public) alike here in Scotland.

Luckily, the library has 40+ copies of To Kill a Mockingbird, but no copies of Mountains beyond Mountains, a story about Paul Farmer's, an anthropologist, time in Haiti. If nothing else, and I'll never get tired of saying this, you have to give snaps to the public (and university) library systems of America. They get it right.



Men in kilts in front of Edinburgh's central public library. Obviously undergoing some construction, which is not that uncommon in this city of very old buildings. I would say that at any one time 75% of all buildings in the city have scaffolding on them.

Mabye I am not cut out to be a blogger

I am frustrated by my lack of things to blog about. It is difficult when one is not married, doesn't have kids, isn't pregnant, anything and everything that can be said about Michael Jackson has already been said, many times over, and your soul is dying because your life is being sucked away by your dissertation. Will I ever have something to blog about again?

The bright spot right now in my life: Wimbledon. I could blog about that, but I don't really have much more to say about the whole event other than, GO ROGER!

And like always no blog post is complete without some picture. This is from my 2005 Cambodia/Thailand trip. This was taken just outside of Ankor Wat, just loved the "greeness" of it all.

Because My Sister Did

I too had to create a photo montage from my recent travels. The only difference for most of my faithful blog readers will be the addition of music, since everyone that reads my blog has already received all 156 pictures, while this short piece only has 24 of the pictures I like the most.

The general order of the pictures are:

Loch Ness
Isle of Skye
Lake District
Peak District
Stratford upon Avon
Oxford
Blenheim Palace

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There is Hope for the U.S. Banking System Yet

If only more bankers spent their time doing acts like this.

Was Sesame Street this hip when I was young?

Turn off that light bulb