Sunday 19 October 2008

This is... my current reading material

I'm back on the Mainland and slowly catching up with all of my blog reading. I'm still in anti-climax mode after arriving in late last night and don't know what to do with myself, so catching up on the "This is" posts seems like a good start (rather than, say, unpacking/washing/tidying).

My current reading material, which I arrive at work to every day, looks very much like this:

Courtesy of jepoirrier

... except multiplied across my entire desk and with extra coffee and tea stains on top. I recently went through and organised it alphabetically and arranged them into folders, however my unsorted pile of "interesting new articles" is growing rapidly and I am not sure if I will ever get to the bottom. But surprisingly, I have actually been looking forward to reading my humongous pile of papers. I like to think this is a good thing.

In my spare time I have been plugging away through the Chronicles of Narnia which I am thoroughly enjoying. It is something easy to read that doesn't constantly have funny phrases like basal ganglia (the word "ganglia" always sounds silly to me), gamma-aminobutyric acid or rostroventral lateral medulla, but at the same time has great depth. I have just started reading The Silver Chair. I am quite a hopeless reader when it comes to fiction novels and I have started many books and never finished them. I usually only have time to read when I go to bed, and I only ever read 2 or 3 pages before I fall asleep. So a book has to either be really exciting or really easy for me to ever get through it.


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3 comments:

straykat said...

amygdala will always make me laugh internally.

It's funny how alphabetical system just doesn't work when trying to organise one's research.

The alternative thematic order might be a reflection of the brain's thinking and ordering process.

Why can't you you a PhD on this??? Paperchase: the science of research and it cognitive underpinnings????

JuliaB said...

Hello .. do you work for Elsevier? I used to (in Oxford)! x

Liesl said...

That's a very impressive pile of reading material. Clearly its not the sort I would have any luck with .... I had to go and look up basal ganglia on Wikipedia!