Also going to start using this space to keep a running record of things I read, learn, hear, etc. I also have a sort of vague goal of taking a run at law school later this year, so I'll do my best to chronicle that adventure. In all, if I can fit an entire day into a single paragraph, then maybe I'll start to learn to do more interesting things. Either that or I'll learn to make up more interesting things. Either way, I'm pretty much set for life.
This is just a start, so I'm sure it'll start to take on a different face over time. Have some ideas, but will have to see what it looks like in practice.
To start:
I am beginning to reread Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling. And by "reread" I mean actually read for the first time. This book was assigned in a class I took on International Security Policy and in typical fashion I did some skim reading (which I'm relatively good at). So this will be the first full reading without simply looking for the usual buzzwords that my professors liked to hear.
I've only briefly read through the preface and the start of the first chapter on "The Diplomacy of Violence," but the tone is pretty well set. I shall be learning the nature of diplomacy, coercion, and the power (or in some cases, the perception) to hurt. This is a book I've always meant to give full attention to, so we'll see how this goes.
Also, I frequently have to look up words in the dictionary, so I thought it'd be neat to document them. I know, not neat for you, but whatever. I usually look a word up (www.tfd.com and whatever my Kindle uses) if I want to know how it is pronounced or if it has any other contextual meanings. And, of course, the obvious situation of when I don't know what the word means at all. Some words you just don't see very often, so yeah.
Here will be my first for the series:
pro·pin·qui·ty (pr
-p
ng
kw-t
)n.
1. Proximity; nearness.
2. Kinship.
3. Similarity in nature.
That shall be all for now.
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