What have I been doing?

So, what the fuck have I been up to the past, er, two or three weeks or however long it has been since I have blogged?

Quite a lot actually. I’ve started attending AGASA meetings on campus where a bunch of nonbelievers get to engage in lively debate about all sorts of yummy nonbelieving topics. I’ve also been attending a lot of talks hosted by the Department et al.,which have given me some hope for improving the public discourse in this country, although not too terribly much.

But any sign of improvement is encouraging considering that I’ve pretty much decided to go into the business of doing just that. Although not just when it comes to the public discourse surronding history, but the public discourse surrounding politics, culture, and oh yes, even religion. This has something to do with the possiblity that I might switch my dissertation topic to the twentith century, since that would be much more relevant to you know, now. But as I’m having trouble seeing what I would want to do in this very depressing century devoid of white, virtuous old men in wigs I’m not too confident about that yet.

But in order to make sure I can at least make something ultimately relevant out of my dissertation to someone beyond Gordon Wood and…well yes just Gordon Wood, I’m taking a seminar on non-academic job searches for that time in the future where I’m going to try to make my living off of being clever, making arguments, and writing well.

So what I have been up to? A hell of a lot, as I’ve basically decided to seriously start embarking on my life goal to basically change the world. Yeah. Wish me luck. On that.

But oh, the excitement and the beauty of it all. Really, it can just astound me sometimes.