Retreated to Cambridge to decompress. 3 days of ASA down, 1 more to go.
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Report from the Hynes Trenches
01-Aug-08I’m in Boston, at ASA. Arrived yesterday. The rough start to my ASA adventure included: waking up yesterday with a nauseating migraine; a bus driver who got lost leaving NYC and entering Boston, making us late and unable to attend the panel we were arriving for; a panic that I might puke on the bus; [...]
At Home He’s a Tourist, 3 (a & b)
15-Jul-08Leaving a coffeeshop where I’d done some work, I (a) took the indirect route, through Washington Square Park and (b) stopped to listen to some eager boys playing music on acoustic guitars. They had strong but clear voices that made for sweet, clean harmonies. I stayed for a song and half, then figured I’d had [...]
Awesome
15-Jul-08Via the always resourceful Wicked Anomie, I discovered Wordle, which will create “word clouds” out of pasted-in text or a blog feed. Here’s what it made of an article based on my dissertation: That basically does say it all. We should be able to submit dissertations in Wordle format, don’t you think?
At Home He’s a Tourist, 1 & 2
11-Jul-08Dean is working on me to work on my powers of positive thinking, and along those lines, I’ve decided to assume I will get a real job for next year, despite some indications to the contrary. A corollary to this is that I will, most likely, be leaving NYC in about a year. I think [...]
M.A.S.H.
09-Jul-08Greg and I just took a study break with a quick game of M.A.S.H. Remember that game? Well it looks like I will be marrying Greg’s boyfriend Ted, who apparently is going to make a lot of money, because we will be living in a mansion in Peoria and I’ll be driving to my job [...]
Reasons to Leave Your Apartment
07-Jul-08I was a bit slow getting out of the apartment today, but it turned out to be perfectly timed, as I ran into two of my favorite blogging friends, WIAFLAW (playing hookie from work) and WISRMBAT (on a summer vacay visit), almost as soon as I stepped onto the street. I was actually thinking about [...]
Blogs, Bikes, Sledgehammers
07-Jul-08Last night, the bloggies, aka the video group, aka a group of GC soc students (and one poli-sci interloper) who have been collaborating on mutating projects for the past year, got together at the home of our advisor for some drinks and some re-capping of our latest activities. The group started as a way of [...]
Tearing Down the House
03-Jul-08I am back in the blogosphere after another trip out of town, this one to Northampton to help the chosen fam out with their new home purchase. I spent a few days tearing out sub-flooring, which I have to say was amazingly therapeutic: I didn’t think about my dissertation or the job market even once. [...]