it's thursday......that's about all i have to say

slow day today. i contacted Quentin Stafford-Fraser (http://www.qandr.org/quentin) in order to setup a meeting with him to see if he can be of some assistance to me in firming up a phd topic and some research i would like to do for the remainder of this term. things seem to be stagnant right now, but i am trying to work through it as best i can. i cannot seem to find any interesting papers to read either. maybe i am looking in the wrong places? maybe i am looking for the wrong topics/types of research? i think this is the reason that i am pressing so hard to find a topic. it is extremely difficult to know what to read when you don't know what you need to be looking for.