At JPU, students can withdraw from our jumbo public classes at their leisure, without blemish to their GPAs. Well, they will have a “W” on their transcripts, and they’ll still be on the hook for the student-loan funds purportedly allotted for the class, but at least they’ll have been able to make their car payments [...]
Archive for March, 2008
23 Mar
Spring breakage
Chthunk!
That was me, landing in Funky City after twenty-one hours of planes, trains, and automobiles. And waiting.
Most of those hours were spent in a middle seat, next to a long-legged young man who, despite my passive-aggressive attempts to push him within the borders of his allotted space in coach, seemed continually poised for a pelvic [...]
18 Mar
Ten pounds of copies!
I’m blogging from a world capital, at an exclusive, top-secret location whose name rhymes with the Schmittish Schmybrary. For shits and giggles (and research) I’ve been in the Music Reading Room listening to recordings and looking at scores, from which I want to make a few copies.
Heretofore I had been enjoying such a charmed trip [...]
16 Mar
The milk of human kindness. I lacks it.
Unless something extraordinary happens, like a fare I can afford, I tend to fly on weekends. It may be that I am just so unobservant that I should not be allowed to bathe and feed myself or operate heavy machinery, but it wasn’t until this weekend that I realized that weekend flights are also family [...]
1 Mar
Looks like I’ve won
. . . a passport makeover!
But this makeover has a more successful ending than all three episodes I’ve seen of Later Today, whose programming seems as dedicated to “Ambush Makeovers” of people who don’t need really them as Maury Povich’s is to paternity tests for those who do. Don’t ask me how I know about [...]
