Welcome to the real world. You’ve been living in some nature-fairy land while the rest of us have been drugging ourselves since the age of 16 just to get by. You don’t smoke and you hardly drink and now you’re all like “Ooooo! Two cups of tea in the morning!” It’s probably funnier to hear …
Category Archives: Life
Sabbatical Rules
Which can of course be considered a complete sentence or a set of guidelines. Let me assent to the former and get on to the latter. I may add more latter. 1. Just because I’m blogging while on sabbatical doesn’t mean I have time to do work for other people that I didn’t have when …
And on the sabbath, he rested
My first semester as a professor was the fall of 1999. What I remember the most was the intensity. It was like a constant sprint except I didn’t always know where or why I was running. Then, sometime in October a Friday afternoon arrived when there wasn’t something I urgently had to do. I had …
Good News, Fishing for Bad
Brazil was amazing, as expected. Rio is a very interesting and intense city, my hosts were wonderful, the experience was totally unforgettable and I hope to go back. My visa is good for 10 years. Yesterday I went to the radiation oncologist for followup. He pronounced me fine and said not to come back; and …
The New Normal, or Is That a Summer Hiatus Coming On?
For those readers not accustomed to the ways of academic blogs (which is mostly academic only by virtue of its association with its author), there is a tradition called the “summer hiatus.” People spend less time on the internet reading blogs and writers take time away. I tend not to announce such things but since …
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Disability Studies 101: Saturday Night Practicum
This is a post about some issues I encountered at someone else’s birthday party, which makes it inherently pathetic and self-centered. But then, this is a blog, so I get to be pathetic and self-centered once in awhile, right? I apologize up front. For the record, it was a fun party and any non-fun issues …
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Goodbye Oughts and Hello Tweens
Okay, we’re back and it should be really, really fixed this time. First, OMG. WordPress says this is post number 1000. I feel like I should do something special. Here’s a pony: Okay, I cannot possibly tell you the best of anything over the last 10 years. I don’t think that way. So here’s some …