Couldn't sleep tonight. Don't really know why - I feel all right, no loud noises, no bad dreams - but my eyes popped open at 4:20 AM & I've been awake since then. I probably could've called some of you East Coast people & you still would've been awake. West Coasters for sure. But instead, I sat up reading a book that Brian Davis recommended to me a long time ago called
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy. It's got some very compelling data on how people become wealthy - not about how to earn a lot of income, but how to accumulate a lot of wealth. Read it.
I got my birthday present from
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chaosvizier yesterday, which explains why today I'm so attractively outfitted in a black
Trogdor the Burninator T-shirt. !Muchas gracias, CV! I think I'll wear it again next week for my first day of teaching; that should set the right tone for my classroom. Included with the gift was a belated birthday card, something you don't often see six days before the day. CV tells me he mailed the package just 4 or 5 days ago, & since it was overseas, etc. he anticipated it taking longer to get here.
On an ironic note: while my birthday present, sent via regular USPS, gets from North Jersey to Scotland in record time, my next-door neighbor Heather's box of divinity books, which she mailed about 3 1/2 weeks ago via USPS Priority Shipping, has yet to arrive. Also, no-one (USPS or Royal Mail) can tell her where her box is - both organisations say that the package should be tracked in the other's system. Heather can't start work on her Ph.D. proposal until that box shows up, because most of her primary research materials are in it. To add to the irony, the topic of her Ph.D. is theological understandings of the nature of human suffering.
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