Author Archives: fustianist

“Martyrdom in the key of F”

It’s nice to be back. Apparently very few of you read our blog over the weekend (congratulations on having better things to do), so we were hardly missed! It was a really good weekend. Sydney very nicely played spouse at … Continue reading →

This morning I desperately tried to get ready to teach a PHIL 101 section where I was going to tell my students what sorts of things they needed to improve in their papers and try to get them to understand … Continue reading →

Sydney and I have been working long days this week in preparation for our upcoming weekend away. Lest you think it’s a relaxing vacation that I’m talking about, let me explain. My political debate group from college is having its … Continue reading →

That same Beebe Lake near our offices is also the view outside gym that I frequent. Today as I was at the gym, trudging along on the treadmill, I saw a gigantic hawk circling high above the lake. As I … Continue reading →

One of the best features of Ithaca is the great scenery all around us: lakes, gorges, waterfalls, and so on. We even get to enjoy this every day at Cornell, since we park on one side of the Fall Creek … Continue reading →

I have a divided academic brain. Not like Sydney, who wants to study 30 different fields at once, but I do have more than one literary love. When I start working on dissertation stuff this summer and fall, I am … Continue reading →

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 →