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might just kill us off. Unfortunately we’re more tired than when the break began! Too much computer time and moving sluggishly around the house. When I imagined us in grad school together, I think I was hoping we’d be a … Continue reading →

For those of you who have your own blogs (and who know I regularly check those blogs): I have been writing a short paper, the first paper I’ve written in awhile (yeah, I’m rusty), so I have allowed myself a … Continue reading →

For a delightful skewering of the ever more ubiquitous narcissistic yoga twaddle, see here. I especially like the part about Zen leading to instant relaxation. Right. Eastern thought looks a whole lot more intelligent to me than its Western perversions. … Continue reading →

We slept with the window cracked open last night, the snow is almost completely melted, and the cardinal serenaded us for hours this morning. Spring is really here! Of course, spring for me means cleaning time. Normally this is where … Continue reading →

I have actually gotten around to trying some of those new recipes, and here’s the reaction: Butternut Squash and Onion Pizza: Sydney really liked the pizza, though both he and I thought the squash needed to cook a bit longer. … Continue reading →

Sydney graded papers, I muddled around with reading, writing, and cleaning, and we both felt like microwaved pizza. Sorry, that’s about as close as I can come to accuracy today. Filling my spring break with (surprise!) work has given me … Continue reading →

I suppose there won’t be too many Foucault disciples reading this blog, but, in case anyone is tempted in such a direction, Foucault gets a well-deserved castigation for shoddy scholarship here. Sydney

A note on hiking in our household: When I think of hiking, I think sneakers, Ithaca hills (as much vertical as horizontal), and enough forward motion to get pink cheeks, sweaty, and pleasantly exhausted. When Sydney thinks of hiking, he … Continue reading →

I think I’m done with taxes. I guess I’ll just wait to see if the government decides to ring me up in the next couple of weeks . . . Anyway, filing those things made me grateful that we don’t … Continue reading →

Click here to see Chris Hedges saying that Operation Rescue is an equivalent of al-Qaeda and that Christian universities that teach Creationism are the equivalent of Wahhabism. This is roughly the most inane thing I’ve seen in months, the sort … Continue reading →