On my bike, on my way to the Grad Center today, a Greenpeace canvasser shouted the above to me. I thought that was nice. I have an intense and conflicted relationship with canvassers. In the summer months, the streets around my apartment are swarming with young, white, idealistic kids on summer vacation from liberal arts [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
“Thank You For Not Driving!”
26-Jun-08What I Ate For Dinner and Why
24-Jun-08Had a great, wonderful time with Emily tonight. I made us pork chops and kale, she brought us a special beverage. Dinner conversation topics included: reading The Order of Things; abandoning The Order of Things; professional conferences; alienating professional colleagues by criticizing gay marriage movements; sociology journal rankings versus library science journal rankings; her new [...]
Your Lucky Day
18-Jun-08Chris Caruso, whom I know through the Tech Fellow program of which we are both part, has put together an amazing web project. Chris coordinated a team of people to videotape the weekly lectures from David Harvey’s “Reading Marx’s Capital” course last fall. Now the 55 hours of tape are edited, and Chris is putting [...]
New York Sucks
12-Jun-08I was going to head out to do work someplace besides the single room that constitutes my office/bedroom/living room/kitchen, and then I heard that the (unfortunately re-named) Hopscotch Cafe (formerly Alt Coffee) has closed! Though I sort of missed the anarchist decor of the Alt Coffee days (couches with no springs, piles of broken computer [...]
Tuesdays With Mannies
11-Jun-08The temperature seems to have returned to something resembling a habitat suitable for human life, which I’m happy about, as I’m planning to be out and around on my bike later. Though first I need to fix a flat — the second in one week! Defying everything I know about having (and keeping) a bike [...]
You Wish Your Bed Was Already Made
09-Jun-08I’m not totally ready for it to be Monday. I think I achieved a good balance this weekend between doing work and having fun, but does this every get easy? Does any academic ever hit an automatic stride in which you’ve figured out how to get enough work done, how to feel like you’ve gotten [...]
Synesthesia, and Finishing School
06-Jun-08Sometimes when I can’t sleep, or am barely sleeping, I get a word or phrase running through my head over and over. The insomnia episode of a few nights ago featured just a few lyrics from an Alicia Keys song (“no one, no one, no one”) as I flipped uncomfortably around in bed. This morning, [...]