I don’t mean that metaphorically. I mean, when you walk in the gates and up the path toward the Art Building, it reeks of putrefaction. Julian, my TA, says that it’s just the melting snow and the grass interacting to give off some kind of nasty gas. He says Parc LaFontaine smells the same way. …
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In Praise of Dave Noon and His Blog
I am going to start listing some of my favorite blogs here. Eventually I’ll get around to updating the blogroll, but for now this will have to do. Some preliminary facts: I pretty much only read blogs authored by friends. There are a couple exceptions, and I’ll always happily click a link. But I’m the …
The Best Advice Ever + a Music Gear Fish Story
As she was leaving the Art building on Thursday, our colleague Marc Raboy told Carrie to “take some time off, it’s a holiday weekend, you know.” Sometimes, that’s all you need. We took yesterday off and had the luxury of sitting around and talking forever, and then going shopping around town. We started with Zone …
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31 July 2007
Our new work permits arrived today and that is the day that they expire. I consider it a minor miracle that we got more that a year’s renewal (which is the normal amount of time) and that they came back this fast. By 31 July 2007, if all goes well, we will have found the …
Swimming Upstream
It’s that “I’m so busy I’m so busy I’m so busy” time of the semester again, so of course I’m blogging instead of writing. Actually procrastinating other work. I’m particularly pleased because one of my advisees just landed her first tenure-track job. Maybe Full Professors get jaded about this kind of thing, but I’m thrilled. …
Still More Strike
A report from the front lines of student debt: http://thesmokingsection.blogspot.com/2005/03/skinny-on-student-strike.html. Back to work for me.
Outstanding
My friend Dave Noon is once again auctioning off Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. It got him permanently banned from ebay last year. Check it out at http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/auction/89532071?aucview=0x70.