Who owns February?

Hi little lost reading lambs, if there are any left out there. It's been a while since I've been a-postin. Life has been quite busy with grad school, work, teaching and the like.

Some things that occupied my mind this week:

• Chernoff faces: unique way to map multivariate factors to faces or a quantitative phrenology?
• Postcolonial theory, Orientalism and Edward Said: maps a bit more closely to the way I see the world than others in the fact that there is a resistance component.
• The fact that reading postcolonialism might impede one's ability to enjoy other activities like a smug American chastising a continent while he flies over it. I think I prefer the talks at National Geographic when they stick to animals.
• Time to get my butt in gear in terms of my preliminary exam for the PhD
  

As you can see in the previous posts the wind tore down our backyard tree and no the dog on a string was not harmed - I actually haven't seen that matted little guy in months. Once in a while it's good to be a renter.

This weekend is going to be about bowling, writing, reading, and getting to go behind the scenes at a museum. Dating a budding biologist has its privileges.

Hope everyone is happy!