After collapsing Friday night from a week of advising and other new student events, we decided to take the weekend entirely off from work. Actually, decided that before collapsing. Saturday night we hosted friends for dinner and caught Crank, which was both forumlaic in the mobster badguy action genre and entertaining in its subtle innovations. …
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It’s Really Starting
I arrived on campus late this afternoon after dropping Louis (Carrie’s dad) off at the airport. He was the last of our month-long string of visitors. We’ve never had so many people visit us in such a short period of time. It’s been wonderful as a social experience and in terms of taking time off. …
Night Time is Meme Time
I’m not normally given to insomnia, but the 3 hour nap is a big thing in the Rentschler family when vacation is in effect, and I’m more of a no-nap or 30-minute nap kind of guy. 3 hours was my downfall. But that leaves me time for a contemplative post, thanks to Muse passing a …
Complaints Department
They’re doing road construction outside my office at school, which means that I’ve had to take several meetings somewhere else or endure the sound of one of those giant hammer things. Well, now they’re ripping up the street right in front of our place, which is not only insanely loud, but when they hit the …
New Text
“The Historiography of Cyberculture” in Critical Cyberculture Studies eds. David Silver and Adienne Massanari, 17-28. New York: NYU Press, 2006. Carrie’s dad arrives in a few hours. I’m off to the Music Library for some good, wholesome fun with reference materials. Not enough time. I’m cleaning my office until Carrie comes to pick me up.
Hump Day
I woke up this morning intending to write a little bit and catch up on a pile of things to read on my desk. I accomplished neither thing, instead cleaning out my inbox (which is good as a bunch of things had been waiting) and dealing with an avalanche of administrativa (ditto, though today had …
Bed and Breakfast in Full Effect
We’ve got a steady stream of visitors coming until mid-month. But I’ll try and keep it together. In the meantime, tV reminds me that if you were wondering about the Harper administration’s agenda for higher education, their initial big idea is a plan to make Canada the first country ever to pull out of the …