The past few days have seen a small breakthrough for me in my research, as I now have a new framework perspective for my whole problem that helps to make much better sense of what I've been doing.
I also spent several hours this week preparing a post-doctoral fellowship application on the dreadfully poorly organized website of the host institution. I am now officially done with post-doc fellowship applications (unless I don't get any of them), which is a relief, though I can't say that I really gave my best effort into this final one.
In more exciting news, this week I had the pleasure to read John Steinbeck's "The Pearl", which was a delightful little story about Kino, Juana, and their young son Coyotito, a poor family from La Paz, who have the fortune of finding a great pearl only to discover the misfortune that accompanies both the perceptions and reality of acquiring an object of tremendous value in a greedy society. One of my favorite aspects of the entire story is the fact that, in most instances, it's not actually obvious whether the "evil" that pursues Kino and his pearl is real or merely a figment of Kino's paranoid imagination.
I also love Steinbeck's literary style, which is vividly descriptive yet concise, always focused on conveying the emotion and tension that surrounds a simple yet masterful storyline. I read Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath in grade/high school but don't remember them really, but now I think it's time I pick up (for the first or second time) his other classics.
I also spent several hours this week preparing a post-doctoral fellowship application on the dreadfully poorly organized website of the host institution. I am now officially done with post-doc fellowship applications (unless I don't get any of them), which is a relief, though I can't say that I really gave my best effort into this final one.
In more exciting news, this week I had the pleasure to read John Steinbeck's "The Pearl", which was a delightful little story about Kino, Juana, and their young son Coyotito, a poor family from La Paz, who have the fortune of finding a great pearl only to discover the misfortune that accompanies both the perceptions and reality of acquiring an object of tremendous value in a greedy society. One of my favorite aspects of the entire story is the fact that, in most instances, it's not actually obvious whether the "evil" that pursues Kino and his pearl is real or merely a figment of Kino's paranoid imagination.
I also love Steinbeck's literary style, which is vividly descriptive yet concise, always focused on conveying the emotion and tension that surrounds a simple yet masterful storyline. I read Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath in grade/high school but don't remember them really, but now I think it's time I pick up (for the first or second time) his other classics.
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