he learned he is nothing and can do it

It's a rest-cure from 30 years of "publish or perish". I can now take it
easy and have a period of rest. Even though I'll be retired, I know I will
not stop working. I cannot understand myself without doing science. But now
retired I can read more, learn many things I never learnt for the pressure
to publish, and in general, to take it easy.

lisa in mass. wrote:

Teilhard Knight wrote...

Doing nothing. Well, you know, playing full time with my
computers. I still have students working towards their
PhD, but they will finish soon.

when do you think they'll finish up? then you can be
really retired.

it's easy to become a total hermit when you don't have to
get up and go out to do anything. be careful. it only
makes depression worse. i saw it happen to my father. he
only came out of it when an old friend decided to buy a
house a block away from him. now they get together a
couple days a week to do nothing together, and he's
feeling much better.

Don't worry, Lisa, I have always been a hermit. I feel
comfortable that way. I am now under no obligation to show
up at work, and things have become so unpleasant there that
I don't want to show up unless I have to. According to the
proceedings, I will have more than two hundred grand by
December the 10th. I have never had that much amount of
money together in my life. I plan to buy an small apartment
and look the way to put the rest of money to work in such a
way to increase my pension income. Perhaps you read I've
been thinking to put an Internet cafe, but lately I have
been figuring out other possibilities which can work better
than that. I plan to buy my apartment in front of the
National University. Now, we researchers continuously
invite people to work with us and we are also invited. So,
if I bought three apartments instead of one and hire the
other two to visiting professors or the people who invite
them, I maybe can do better than with a cyber cafe. I have
not decided yet, but I'll have to do something with the
rest of the money I will have free. Wish me luck as a man
of business.

% wrote:

i believe the nothing part

I give a damn what you believe or do not believe. Go and take care of your
cow instead of sticking your nose on people's business.

--
Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial

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