Monthly Archives: January 2007

Many good things in life seem designed to make you sleepy. A good, full cup of tea that you can feel creeping down and warming your stomach. A cat who has finally settled in on your lap and warms away … Continue reading →

This is Week 2, meaning we’re finally starting to see a shape to this semester’s schedule. As in, Sydney answers my probing (and incessant) questions about his classes and meetings for about two weeks early on, and then is astonished … Continue reading →

Did you notice that I married somebody who rambles even more than I do? So I thought that we needed a few pictures to provide some relief. This is the south wall of our living room, which is where most … Continue reading →

I still consider us quite newly-married, and I don’t anticipate us having kids just yet. So don’t get your hopes up or start to worry, depending on your disposition. But I am a planner, so I have spent some time … Continue reading →

I need an office with a window. After holing up for several hours in my office, I stepped outside to realize that winter had finally arrived while I was busy being a nerd. Gorgeous! I never knew that a college … Continue reading →

In 2000, North Americans spent roughly 330 billion US dollars on clothing. Western Europeans spent about the same amount. In case the profligacy isn’t obvious already, I’ll let you figure out the per capita amount. But apparently that was not … Continue reading →

One of the really nice things about the philosophy program at Cornell is that after every semester the professors write up evaluations of the grad students that they had during the semester. Eventually these evaluations are given to the student. … Continue reading →

After two days of classes the semester seems to be shaping up quite nicely. I wanted to share two things I’m particularly excited (and nervous) about: 1) I’ll be auditing a class on aesthetics taught in Sydney’s department. I’ve never … Continue reading →

Here’s a quotation from a CBC piece: “A separate study released Jan. 9 by the Pew Research Center found that about 80 per cent of 18- to 25-year-old Americans saw getting rich as their prime life goal.” That sounds like … Continue reading →

Here‘s a librarian’s lament about how kids no longer read books. So in a few years I’ll get to try to get these kids (who don’t have the patience, mental maturity, and so forth to read a novel) to read … Continue reading →