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The conference on Saturday was great.  A conference put on by grad students for grad students of this department, it meant I got to spend a Saturday learning what my friends and classmates have been doing since I last saw … Continue reading →

Very shortly I’ll be taking off for a day-long conference on campus.  It’s being organized by friends and will feature mostly people from my department, so I’m anticipating much friendliness and catching-up during the breaks.  I’m also just interested to … Continue reading →

Yesterday Sydney and I took a visiting student and his wife out to dinner.  As always when new people are visiting (their one chance to experience Ithaca before making big decisions, one day’s memories to hold on to until they … Continue reading →

I learned in college that, no matter what hour of the day, someone on campus would always be taking a break from work.  Sleeping, partying, playing Frisbee, getting coffee–something that made you feel like an idiot for being at your … Continue reading →

I seem to crave the unhealthy.  Sugar, to be precise.  I love fruit, sure, but it’s a bit harder to turn my tastes to vegetables.  Take that, and thne imagine being married to Sydney, who has no sweet tooth and … Continue reading →

After almost two weeks of low-forties flirtation with spring, Ithaca got hit with another snow storm. This would, of course, be the same day that a) our housemate was coming home from the airport in Syracuse after two weeks in … Continue reading →

The Washington Post has a lovely piece on that recent oxymoronic development called ‘green consumerism’. Here’s the opening of the piece: Congregation of the Church of the Holy Organic, let us buy. Let us buy Anna Sova Luxury Organics Turkish … Continue reading →

This week Sydney and I are hosting a visiting prospective graduate student for the philosophy department.  He, like Sydney, studies medieval philosophy, and so I find myself with two tall, serious, nearly-silent medieval philosophers in what is, after all, a … Continue reading →

Alright, I’ve finally gotten around to loading the promised photos. Clicking on the below photo should open a file with a bunch more (the file is rather sizable):

Today when I went to check out a slew of books from the library in preparation for my upcoming exams, I was asked if I wanted to recall a book that was out and that I had on my list … Continue reading →