Roll up

Aaand I'm back down to one post a month. Sorry about that. Let's see, what's been going on in my life? I'll be presenting a paper at another Philosophy and Psychiatry conference; this year's meeting is about freedom. I'm sort of surprised that they accepted it; as the reviewer noted, my abstract didn't really do a good job of conveying the extent to which I am going to be talking about psychiatry. Frankly, this is because I really didn't have nearly as clear an idea of what I was doing when I first wrote it. (The idea has to do with this variety of compatibilism I've been mulling over for some time, but there are definitely a couple of ways that psychiatry is uniquely relevant to the central ideas, so I plan to explore those in various ways)
Went to Kristen's confirmation yesterday; that was pretty interesting. It turns out that Lutheran ceremonies are far more like Catholic ones than I would have expected.
Oh, and I've finally started the third Phoenix Wright game, which reminds me of something: I've recently discovered that I am pretty into the whole mystery genre. I guess it's the sort of thing I always just kinda took for granted; growing up there was frequently Perry Mason or Columbo or Mystery! playing on the TV, and I guess I never gave much thought to the fact that one could actually be "into" or "not into" mysteries, instead of being kind of indifferent to them, as to an ambient hum. But yeah. It turns out that they're pretty good. I've also been getting a little bit into horror, which is even more unexpected, but it's all classic stuff like Jekyll and Hyde and Lovecraft and such. So that's what I've been reading lately (er, aside from Iron Man)