I’m in two seminars this term. Seminars require 30 page papers instead of exams, and I prefer papers to exams, hence my choice. In one seminar, our professor required us to have our paper topic approved by her last Friday. Nearly every class meeting before that date, she said pretty much these exact words: “Please…
Category: Sometimes I Get Hepped Up and Think I Know a Thing or Two
Burdens: Who really cares about part 3 anyway?
I heard a story the other day about a family that had lived here for generations. All of them – every cousin, every aunt, every niece and grandchild and son and daughter. When Katrina came, they had nowhere to go, because everyone they knew was here. Could you afford to pick up and move to…
Vitriol
I hope the Arizona shooting provides us with the opportunity to take it all down a notch and begin agreeably disagreeing. I’m not super hopeful, because it depends partly on a lot of political pundits changing their rhetoric. And when one can make big dolla dolla billz talking out of your hat and calling people…
Wasted Day
Sitter couldn’t come today, and the Professor is occupied at school from morning til well after dinner. I have about 35 pages of a paper to write, 35 difficult pages of a difficult paper that I’ve had to re write and re-structure twice now, and I have about 9 days to do it. I wish…
Fini
A finite number of pictures will be taken of each of my children, this I know. One day, their lives will end, and there will be no more. It’s an odd way to think about death, but as I watch Madeline Alice Spohr’s parents try to negotiate their lives without her, and I see them…