At about 1pm today I was discharged from the hospital. With the help of the staff Carrie and I packed up and caught an Uber back to the apartment. I then very slowly, taking breaks, walked up the stairs and into my living room. There’s going to be a bunch of rehab ahead, but since …
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Cancer Crawl 25 Oct 2024
A Provisional Diagnosis A lot sure changes in a couple days. We saw my local oncologist today and I now have a provisional diagnosis and a treatment plan: high grade metastatic thyroid cancer of the lungs with a BRAF-600 mutation. It is technically not anaplastic thyroid cancer but that may be a diagnostic distinction without …
Cancer Crawl 22 Oct 2024
First of all, I voted. I am in the cancer ward and I voted. Americans: you now have no excuse. Second, I’m thumb typing this entry. Wish me luck. Third, thanks for all your kind messages. I cannot keep up with all of them or give a customized account of my condition to everyone, so …
Update and a Brief Detour into Existentialism
You know how people sometimes post really personal stuff on social media and then say “I might delete this later?” Yeah, this is one of those posts. The update: I am surviving ok at home. I’m in some kind of steady state where I am not in immediate danger, but I also hate this. My …
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Music News
I’ve got some gigs coming up. These will probably be my last in Montreal until sometime later in 2025, since I’m away on sabbatical. Though there’s always a chance of a brief return visit. Tl;dr: Jonathan Sterne solo synth act, Saturday 15 June 2024, 5:30pm Hard Red Spring, Wednesday 19 June, 8:00pm Volte, Monday 19 …
“What’s a Guggenheim?” (aka the promised good news post)
So this post echoes my insane fall of applications post. First of all: probably nobody should ever apply for 11 things like I did. But it was a hell of a good year professionally. Tl;dr: we will be in two places next year. Carrie will be based at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral …
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4 June 2023: Cancer Crawl
I’ve just completed a period of intense conferencing. Three in-person conferences in five weeks. Plus a number of Zoom talks on top of it. For me, it was wonderfully social and intellectual. In addition to getting to meet and see work by a new generation of grad students and assistant profs, whom I’d not “discovered” …