JLS

JLS is part self-help, part poor-person philosophy, and total nostalgia. It was the book of the seventies. And I read it until it fell apart. It was followed by a movie too. I remember seeing the movie, but have no idea what it was like. It seems so odd now. I must ask my daughter if there is a similar book for the 2000s. Anyone know?

I thought that once I had graduated with my PhD, I would no longer have to live on other people's garbage. I would choose my own line of research - dive for fish. Being a grad student is like rooting through garbage. If you survive it, you can dive for fish, but to get there you have to dig through a whole lot of muck. And the more competitive the program, the worse it is. I can’t believe how many professors have such an inflated opinion of their value in the world.

I swore I would not be like that. And I'm not because I can't be. I really have so little time.

Dive for fish

Listen, everybody! There's no limit to how high we can fly! We can dive for fish and never have to live on garbage again! - Jonathan in Jonathan Livingston Seagull.