Wistful thinking

You know what I'll miss next year? Today's word-bomb:

Emolument: n. (formal or rhetorical) profit made from being employed; fee or salary.

That's why it's absolutely imperative that I wring every last bit of gratification and edification from the experience.

So here are some book ideas (for grown-ups) that could go along with furthering that goal:

• Austin's Eco-Culture: The Rise, the Reason and the Reproducibility (would require a lot of interviews of locals, which would be a great way to meet people)
  
• How to Survive for One Year without Spending Money or Mooching: Tapping Social Networks and Being Resourceful in General (semi-autobiography, semi-humor)
  
• Achievable Utopia: Blueprint to an Enlightened and Efficient City (this could go hand in hand with the graduate studies in city planning; this could also be combined in some way with the Austin's Eco-Culture subject)
• Traveling on a Shoestring: Budget-Smart Ways to See the Seven Continents (to be learned from real-life lessons; the challenge would be Antarctica, but if global warming continues apace... otherwise maybe should change "the Seven Continents" to "the World")
  

Hmmm maybe I'll get started on one of these right now...