This post is about ambivalence, neutrality, wishy-washiness, noncommitment, and I haven’t decided what else, occupying the middle of the road in a land neither here nor there. While the navel-gazing that follows is kinda desultory and perhaps incoherent, it is ultimately about teaching—which should never be perceived to be either desultory or incoherent. It may [...]
Archive for July, 2007
28 Jul
“how to make myself to be more lucky?”
So goes a search that led to this site the other day. The question is phrased with a poetic cadence that, to my ear, is almost worthy of the Manolo.
And that makes me even sadder to think that the searcher—whom I picture being as spectacularly down on his or her luck as Jude Fawley from [...]
27 Jul
8 L8 Wonderments
Unlike that last post, this one is my go at the “8 Wonderments” meme that Dance kinda sorta tagged me for. It was invented by Squadratomagico, renamed by Hilaire, and has sort of petered out by now. Toward the end people were noncommittally not tagging people, as if to avoid that playground drama in [...]
25 Jul
Overshare
Not that anyone asked, but…
(NB: This is emphatically NOT the enchantingly named “8 Wonderments” meme that Dance kinda sorta tagged me for, oh, years ago, when we were all still young and impressionable. That meme deserves far loftier contemplation and less narcissism than what follows.):
Why can’t I eat just one? Kettle-cooked potato chips have a [...]
23 Jul
Nomenclature
Yesterday marked a whole month of this blog.
I’ve actually had this space for rather longer, since April 1. It was an appropriate date to become Lucky Jane, whom I was ambivalent about becoming. On April Fool’s Day I wrote a handful of posts, some of them pastiching the misadventures of my namesake: not the eponym [...]
23 Jul
For shizz and giggles
The package remains unopened. Do the Harry Potter books count as campus novels? If HP 7.0 is anything like, say, I Am Charlotte Simmons, then I won’t be moved to open it any time soon. But Snape narrating Straight Man? That I would read. In a heartbeat.
À propos of that last post, though, here’s a [...]
23 Jul
Why? Why-y-y-y-y?
So I get back from my excellent weekend at World-Class Library, and what do I find on my doorstep but this:
When the last installment came out, I was in England, at the best conference I’ve ever attended. Though I say so myself, I rocked my talk. I turned down four (underwhelming: don’t be impressed) [...]
21 Jul
Seen! at a subconscious near me:
The Simpsons [Presumably International] Airport
Daily flights to Rome, São Paolo, Jerusalem, London, Sydney, Dubai, Mumbai, Tokyo, Paris, and many more!
Courteous Airport Security! No waiting!
Serviced by Southwest Airlines.
Pink donuts [hmmm], made with organic whole wheat flour and only the freshest organic eggs, fried only in zero-trans-fat oil. Hot! Fresh! Daily!
Never mind that I haven’t seen the [...]
20 Jul
Ungentle readers
For various reasons, it will be a few years before I can begin living my dream of a House Beautiful. Meanwhile, I do what I can to make the apartment I live in a gracious refuge, despite its persistent six-legged population. To effect this transformation, I’ve been slowly replacing my crap grad student furniture with [...]
18 Jul
Best! Day! Everrrrrrr!
WordPress, which hosts this blog, maintains a category of statistics that logs the highest number of visitors a blog has ever had in one day. This category is, as this post’s title makes almost plain, the “Best Day Ever.”
Well, the day this blog was footnoted in the Chronicle was just dandy, thank you, though I’m [...]
