Residential Recap

March 9, 2008

So, the promised recap of my first week of school. I drove down to Santa Barbara on Saturday, with all of my books, shiny new pencils, the laptop, etc. I almost went and bought Pee Chee folders out of nostalgia, but based on the amount of reading, am glad I went with the 3″ binder [...]

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Home Sweet Dorm

February 23, 2008

More on my first week of grad school later, but here’s a little visual to whet the appetite…

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Reasons to Hope

February 4, 2008

I always want to find something pithy to say about politics, especially in an election season as charged as this one. But as usual, people who are far better writers than I have already beaten me to it. Michael Chabon’s call to hope (and a vote for Obama) says everything I could hope to about [...]

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New Chapter

February 2, 2008

The new year has come and gone, and this blog has been dormant (as usual) for quite a while. The good news is that the situation’s about to change. Partly, I suspect I’ll have a lot to talk about, and partly, it will be because writing on the blog is going to be part of [...]

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Missing in Action

October 11, 2007

Hi there. You may be wondering where I’ve been these last few months, and the fact of the matter is: all over the place, both physically and mentally. But I don’t want to leave the blog hanging, especially on such a somber note. It’s just that it’s been a very busy summer, and since I’ve [...]

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Dear Mom

June 28, 2007

It’s been a year now since you passed away, and though I’m not fond of euphemisms, this one seems like an accurate description of what you actually did. I still miss you a lot—every day, and terribly sometimes. Sudden tidal waves still come, less often but no less sudden or forceful, and usually without any [...]

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Me

April 15, 2007

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Stats

January 1, 2007

Adding it up for the year: Movies Seen: 35 Books Read: 42 Pounds Gained: ~30 Jobs Quit and Gained: 1 each May add more if I can think of interesting stuff. Until then, Happy New Year to you all!

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Past Perfect

December 24, 2006

Verbs are tricky. They’re the shapeshifters of grammar, taking on different forms to suit the full range of human actions and experience. And depending on what they attempt to describe, they also take on a sense of personality. The present perfect tense, for example, has a certain ring of triumph in Wikipedia’s illustration: I have [...]

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A Public Service

November 20, 2006

Greetings, friends. Since the holiday season is upon us, I consider it a public service to offer to the Internets at large this most indispensable gift: The Complete Internet Guide to the Definition and Negotiation of Spousal Events. Please note that while the title does imply a certain level and type of relationship, that it [...]

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