Author Archives: fustianist

I’ve been scheduling conferences with each of my students this week, leading to a host of amusing and frustrating interactions. Some realize only later that they’re not available for the time they signed up for, some tell me there is … Continue reading →

Last night I helped some friends move, which reminded me that we, too, will have to do that in just a few years.  I’ve been quite keen on staying just where we are since I’ve never heard that academics didn’t … Continue reading →

While having conferences with my students yesterday, I realized it was prospective-student day on campus.  Hoardes of excited teens, bored younger siblings, and slightly frazzled parents milled around campus and took tours through the building in which I teach.  Several … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago a neighbor stopped to chat as he was out walking his dog and I was out feeding the birds.  We had just been acquainted at a recent potluck, where he had been introduced to Sydney and … Continue reading →

This afternoon I sat in a room with 16 philosophers to hear Sydney deliver a paper at his department workshop.  I can’t give you a summary of his argument (for which most of you will be grateful), but I can … Continue reading →

Today I peeled the last of our potatoes from Sydney’s garden, combining them with some onions from that same garden for a potato salad.  An hour later I planted the little onion seedlings that arrived in the mail the other … Continue reading →

An overzealous American border guard has barred a Canadian telecommunications specialist from entering the U.S., even thought he has been working in the U.S. for over a decade with a NAFTA visa. He and his wife even owned a home … Continue reading →

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 →