emptyparadigm wrote:We use StoreEnvy, and thus far haven't done the tax stuff because it's been so small. I think I'm going to keep up with it this year, though, and file in part as a musician. Grant from In the Company of Serpents explained some of the logistics and it seems like a good idea. He said (and I think this is coming from his/a CPA) that if you file as a musician, you can write off albums that you buy as job-related research. It also probably depends on whether or not a slight boost to your gross income would bump you into a higher tax bracket.
Also, RE: obesity, Phil (the other guitar/vox guy in Khemmis) and I are both PhD students in sociology, and he focuses on health/life outcomes. He just published a paper that considers context effects on reported life satisfaction and obesity. Neat stuff! -
http://www.colorado.edu/news/multimedia ... -one-lives
Right on. I will probably just ignore that bit since there is very little possibility of this thing impacting my income in a noticeable way.
Cool that you are studying sociology. I will have to check out his paper
Also, I'm probably going to start calling you Dr. Doom.
odontophobia wrote:the doom room is slowly turning into the dad room.
congrats to all the dads out there.
I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about starting a Doom Dads thread.
AxAxSxS wrote:I love this place. I had no idea that parallels between Travis's book and my wife's work would touch of so much discussion. I am sharing the Khemmis Phil paper with the Wife, thanks for that. she is always looking for research that dovetails with what she is doing.
Today I went by a Wendy's to see about healthy options. A $1.47 gets you a chicken Caesar salad wrap. Pretty tasty and no grease. so there are options. I think nutritional education within the less wealthy demographic also plays a major role. Another thing to consider is if a single parent is working two jobs, will they really want to go shopping and prepare a meal for thier kids when they finally are off from work? especially with a Mcdonalds on every corner? Temptation is a bitch.
Then those kids grow up only knowing that food needs to be unwrapped so you dont bite into the paper, and so on and so on.
We are a crazy diverse group of folks to all be united by a love of the heavies.
True story - back when I lived in Charlotte one of my fellow grad students told a story about her internship. She and her supervisor had to actually take a family to the grocery store and teach them how to shop for food, then help them with some simple recipes. They were broke and on the verge of being evicted, but ate fast food every night because it was easy and they thought it was cheaper, so they ended up spending like $40 every night on shitty food for their family of 5 or maybe 6. Never heard anything else about them, but the story always stuck with me. It goes back to the education piece - these adults were not taught about food, cooking, budgeting, etc, so all they knew was they needed food right now and had enough money to cover dinner - tomorrow and the rent or power bill never factored into the equation at all.
live-i-evil wrote:van_muddlestein wrote:t-rey wrote: I will almost certainly post a tasteful nude of myself with the stack of books when they arrive.
I want an autographed
tasteful nude with my copy, sir.
See that?
Tasteful. No rehashed instagram dick pics, something real classy like.
But the filters make it look so much more impressive...
