Today, I answered my first query letter in French without running it through an automatic translator. POST EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: I have no idea how to type in French. I answered in English. — As of tomorrow evening, I’m off to North Carolina again for the second time this month. This time, it’s a podcasting …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Lost Wallets and Plot Questions
So tonight Carrie’s wallet was stolen while we dined at Basha on St. Catherine. Her bag was literally right next to the table the whole time. Someone was very tricky. There were a couple charges one credit card, but that was dispatched quickly and there was only $10 in the wallet, so it’s more PITA …
The Illusion of Mastery
This blog entry is brought to you by my intense desire not to clean my workspace, which I badly need to do in order to make further progress on my talk for next week. It’s one of those things: I think I’m just getting on top of all these administativa and my seminar is going …
“Jenny?!? C’est un bon nom Francophone!”
Saturday night, we got dinner with two friends, who’d taken the liberty of buying us tickets to the very entertaining Kiss My Cabaret for afterward. KMC turns out to be a lot funnier than the old performance art revue Balls that we attended several times long ago when we lived in Minneapolis. I remember Balls …
More Montrealization
Yesterday after work and before approximately 7.5 consecutive hours of very enjoyable (and necessary) socializing, I went over to Cheap Thrills, which is right near McGill. I can’t believe I’ve been working there a year and only now gotten there. I’ve been sorely in need of a record store to call my own, and I …
Blog? What Blog?
Sorry to be so absent lately. September is the new February. By that I mean it is now the busiest month of the year for me, as February once was. A lot has to do with various fellowship and university deadlines, but some of it is also my fault. After all, I am inbetween the …
Time Flies When
you’re starting the school year. I’ve had six continuous nights of socializing (before tonight) which were absolutely outstanding, especially a labo(u)r day party which perfectly started off the school year/ended the summer. But the reality is that I’ve been having a blast every night since the fun started last Wednesday with a birthday party. Which …