Monthly Archives: March 2008

Finally

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

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Snow

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

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green consumers?

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

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Visitor

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

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orchid photos

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):

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Am I losing it?

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

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Good things

Happy Easter! I have glorious hymns ringing in my ears from this weekend. On Saturday Sydney and I left the house around 5am to drive to NYC. We left the car in the suburbs and took the train down to … Continue reading

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Why I like being married to Sydney

When Sydney was gone, I had a nice little life going (except for the missing him part): early start to the day, time at the gym, carefully scheduled and productive work hours, and a meal routine that was nourishing but … Continue reading

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what did I do in Oxford?

Alright, now that I’ve had almost a week to recover from an interesting trip home, perhaps I should write a post about what I did at Oxford before moving on. Apparently, all I’ve talked about so far is flowers and … Continue reading

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Spring and company

On Friday Sydney’s long-time friend Milton stopped in for a visit. Milton happened to be driving a semi-truck through the middle of New York and thus became our first drop-in visitor.  We never have people come to visit us, since, … Continue reading

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