Big news. I’m writing this from my dining room table at home. It’s nice. The only beeping I’ll hear today is from appliances if I use them, or perhaps a synthesizer if I get frisky (maybe in a few days). I am definitely exhausted from 5 days in hospital but I can just chill here …
Category Archives: Sabbatical
Probably Not Cancer Crawl: 26 Sep 2024
There are so many things I want to tell you about! This is not that post. On August 26th I moved into my Cambridge apartment. Carrie and I drove down a U-haul, and up and down the stairs we went carrying boxes. Sure I got winded but it was normal. I walked around and did …
Sabbatical Fellowships, or My Semester of Applying for Stuff
This term has set a personal record for me: 11 applications for things. Eleven. Let me tell you about them. Sabbatical (Are you a US citizen working a contingent academic job? Scroll down for an interesting opportunity that not a lot of people in my world seem to know about). I’m up for sabbatic leave …
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Stuff
One of my goals for this year was some serious introspection so as to return to my Montreal life with a clearer head. I am not sure if I have simply not done enough of it, or if it’s simply a matter of being outside of my normal “zone” and having epiphanies now and then. …
Life on Sabbatical
I haven’t said much of substance in this space apart from my SSHRC post, which is a whole other story. So let me set the scene. This is my first sabbatical, and I’m still figuring things out. I had wanted a fairly routinized life, and so far that’s what I’ve gotten. We spend all day …
No pressure
I occupy Study 30 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. I requested it based on the recommendation of my friend Fred Turner, who had enjoyed it a couple years back and who said it doesn’t get too hot. Which it doesn’t. Then I looked at the list of previous residents of …