. . .that I can’t keep. But it’s been quite a couple weeks, as we’ve gone from lizard. . . > (on the grounds of the resort where we were staying)… …to yet another blizzard, this one putting us within 30cm of the all-time record for snowfall. Here’s a pic of where we would have …
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Somehow I thought I’d get a bunch of writing done this month. Instead, I accomplished a lot of entertaining (of candidates and guests), many and varied chairing tasks and a little bit of writing. Which is better than nothing, certainly. After a bunch of interviews, we moved on to hosting Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler …
This is one of those blog entries from an email exchange. Someone asked: Someday I’d love to hear anything you have to say about being a musician/scholar. I’m probably the wrong person to ask since I’ve been doing serious admin for the last 2.5 years and at the same time I’ve been playing the jet-setting …
I’m on vacation until school starts. My parents were here for 5 days, which was nice although it was a bit treacherous going out with them. I think they may come in warmer weather in future years. They left on Christmas, and since then it’s been a bit of socializing and self-care, which means finishing …
That giant snow drift with the person walking by? There’s a car under there, and that’s where we were parked for the last snowstorm. I don’t know if it comes out well in the picture but from our window, you can see the antenna — but that’s all. We wised up and put our car …
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This is what it must be like to be a morning person.
So it took me this long to actually listen to the new Radiohead CD since downloading it. Well, I started listening to it about a day ago and haven’t really stoppped since then. It’s excellent. So all I have to say is this: anyone who is complaining about the sound quality simply isn’t listening to …
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