I arrive on campus this sunny afternoon to witness the spectacle of the first day of school. Undergraduates everywhere, corporations hawking their logos and free food, one sorry frat trying to get people to eat hot dogs. As I walk up the hill toward the Arts Building (which houses my office), I pass the giant …
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The syllabus for my Seminar on Repetition Seminar on Repetition is finally complete and on my courses page. You can view it here, complete with pretentious irrelevant blurb and bad puns.. Right now, I am listening to the Swirlies, who are like a bouncier My Bloody Valentine.
Chat Radioactif
As the picture suggests, our cat Tetrys(1) is radioactive. He’d been having digestive problems for some time and when we took him to the vet she said all indications were that he had hyperthyroid. Hyperthyroid is a condition that eventually kills cats, and can be treated through a regimen of medicine that will deal with …
Canadian Bankruptcy Politics and other news
Weclome to the first of a double-post Tuesday night. I have been busy learning the intricacacies of curriculum revision at McGill and it turns out that well, it’s complex. Kind of reminds me of scientology, like if I get far enough into it, someone’s going to take me aside and tell me that aliens actually …
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Back from Toronto
and this week begins, how shall we put it, the “rude awakening” phase where optimism meets actual fall-semester work. Toronto was indeed lovely. As predicted, we did nothing touristy* and instead just hung out with friends. Our hosts, Greg Elmer and Paula Gardner, were even kind enough to throw a party Saturday night where we …
Last Trip of the Summer
Tomorrow, we are off to Toronto for a couple days. Wish it could be longer, but we’re going to do ABSOLUTELY NO WORK on the trip so it should be nice. We are bringing the French flash cards Carrie made, though. My coursepack is in at the copy shop. All is right with the world.
Finally!
A theory of intelligent design that I can really get behind.