I’m too old for this.
I received a set of papers from my morning class on Friday afternoon and then spent the weekend on a crazy project, to which I must rededicate myself ASAP. Hence the all-nighter I’m pulling right now: I must return these papers tomorrow. If I was already exhausted around noon, then [...]
Archive for February, 2009
24 Feb
Glory days
22 Feb
Baaaaahh!
Funky City, my adopted home town, hates Jesus. It belongs to the Fake America. To compensate for its lost souls, I listen to Handel’s Messiah all the year round. My favorite part of that oratorio is the “We like sheep” chorus. When I first heard it, I was maybe four, but not much shorter than [...]
14 Feb
Because academics in the humanities are such experts on these things. . .
As if I didn’t have enough distractions, I half-heartedly follow a discussion board whose topic is tangentially related to my research. The board is populated primarily by non-academics. Lately some folks have mentioned incidentally that they’ve received their tax refunds. Rut-roh, I say, Scooby-like. I want mine, too, but I’m waiting on my 1099-INT’s. It’s [...]
11 Feb
Worst stalker ever
Yep. That would me. But relax: by “worst” I mean “incompetent,” not “your restraining order amuses me.”
At the moment, it’s just after 3 AM, and I’m in the unenviable position of stalking myself. More specifically, I’m putting together my mid-tenure review file, which necessitates that I track down what everyone—anyone—has said about me or my [...]
6 Feb
No reservations
This is not a post about Anthony Bourdain rhapsodizing over balut or “long pork” or whatever he samples to the horror and bafflement of his swooning, menopausal fans. No, I don’t get it, either. Perhaps it’s that heroin-attenuated physique, shared by so many of my department’s ladykillingest undergraduate menfolk. Or maybe it’s that the man [...]
1 Feb
Stupidly titled meme that no one asked me to participate in in the first place
Some months ago, a food meme inspired by a BBC bucket list with similarly stupid title spread through the internets. It is an illogical list, one that smacks of first-world privilege, one that indiscriminately includes twelve beverages (2, 18, 33, 35, 44, 45, 58, 59, 73, 76, 80, 99), three full meals (37, 56, 84), [...]
