Summer 2008 was the closest thing I’ve had to a normal summer in a couple years. And it wasn’t all that normal. It began with my return from Europe in the middle of a TA strike, and then ICA hit, which meant that May was a very busy month. By mid June, things slowed down …
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A Brief Digression on Vacation Weather
<b>4 May 2008</b>: sunny and warm. The first real day of summer for Carrie and I. We are in Washington DC, waiting for my parents to arrive in town. We see that there is a baseball game between our two old teams: The Washington Nationals (formerly the Montreal Expos) and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Accustomed to …
Loggia, Year 2, Stage 1
Carrie planted a garden, or the closest thing to it, with flowers and herbs. <image src=”http://sterneworks.org/loggia1.jpg”> <image src=”http://sterneworks.org/loggia2.jpg”>
Well
that was an intense two weeks. A week of ICA stuff, then all the chair stuff I didn’t do during ICA. Now off to Minneapolis. See you sometime in June. As an extra special treat, I am going off email entirely while in Minneapolis.
Party Casualties
The last week of my life was consumed with the International Communication Association conference here and a variety of activities related to it. The climax of it all was a massive blowout party at our place on Saturday night. The guestlist was a little erratic. We missed a couple people we wanted to invite (especially …
Sssshhhh! Scholar at Work!
Sorry for the quiet. I’ve been using every extra moment to get four talks together for Europe. Why I agreed to give four different talks in six dates is beyond me. Oh wait, I figured fear of public embarrassment would motivate me to make progress on that difficult chapter in my book. And it worked. …
A Day in the Life
What a day yesterday was. Very admin, but also very Montreal. Blog’s been quite lately as I’ve had lots going on. Here’s one day. Some times are approximate. 7:10am: Wake up, get ready, get to school. 8:30: Breakfast with the provost and six other department chairs. Conversation ranges across various administrative initiatives. This is a …