Looking for good biomechanics programs. At least I'm starting to. It occured to me while I was buying running shoes the other day that shoe companies like Adidas, Asics, and Nike all must have R&D departments that are pretty heavy into biomechanics. Working in the lab the last couple of years got me really interested in the field in general, but I wasn't sure how to translate that interest into something specific that I would really love to do. Then God dropped the Boeing thing in my lap. I wasn't sure exactly how that would affect the possibility of going to grad school, but further education was still something I was interested in. Turns out that the company will finance a return to academia. Now I just have to find the right program. I'm sure it may prove to be a little more complicated than that, but it's a start.
posted by Tom 10:18 PM
Sunday, July 06, 2003
Thanks to Dunny's rants on Jules' current condition, I've been reminded to inform you all that my civic--which, sadly, never had a creative name, but was often referred to as the pregnant rollerskate--is no more. That's right, the reliable veteran of countless cross-country road-trips, often my transportation, shelter, kitchen and stereo for days at a time, has gone where all trusty automobiles go when they reach the end of their useful lives. I don't exactly know where that is. Perhaps it has gone to a junkyard to be parted out and, like an organ donor, keep some other old, decrepit Honda running a little longer. Or possibly it will be reconditioned with spare parts from an even less servicable vehicle and passed off to someone who will try to squeek a few thousand more miles out of it. There's a chance that it's greatest value will be the few dollars it can fetch as scrap metal, and it will be crushed in short order. All I know for sure is that I hadn't driven it in four months. This guy from the towing company said he might be interested if it ran. I pulled out the keys and it cranked up somewhat reluctantly. And that was it. I'd driven other cars before; I'd even had a car that was designated for my personal use while I was at school and my parents were overseas, a car that my parents had never even driven until the day before I convinced them to sell it. But the civic was MY first car. Even though I have a new RSX, which makes my daily commute quite enjoyable, the civic still is--and will be for the next several years--the only car I have owned outright. Dunny, you haven't had the best luck with cars. Here's to hoping the next one turns out a little more like my last one. Okay, enough sentimental crap. Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, I need to call the insurance company and get that taken off my policy.
posted by Tom 1:15 AM
It starts with the shoe. Maybe the next day it's a t-shirt or a sock. You don't know if the washing machine ate it, or your roommate borrowed it a month ago and forgot that it was yours. All you know is that by the end of the week, you're walking to class naked because you don't have any clothes left.
