Monthly Archives: March 2009

Back to the Grind

3/19/2009 – 10:20 am

Ah, it’s time to get back to work after a nice spring break. Unfortunately. I’ve got to finish the second half of Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise and write a paper on the different societies posited by Hobbes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche. It’s a short paper, 4-6 pages, and I haven’t decided on a topic yet. I might [...]

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Footie – Session 12

3/17/2009 – 10:23 am

Recap: A somewhat strange day yesterday with both fields going and about 28 guys, meaning one sub per team. The quality of play was sporadic, ranging from pretty good to kinda stupid. There wasn’t a whole lot of rhythm to the game, and I was on the slightly better of the two teams on the [...]

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Sign of the Coming Apocalypse

3/15/2009 – 1:51 pm

This week on MTV Cribs:

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Another Blog? Really?

3/13/2009 – 3:05 pm

For those readers who may be interested (and I suspect there are few): upon the recommendation of two of my advisors/mentors, I’ve started a new blog to keep track of what I’m reading for my preliminary Ph.D. examination. Of course, underlining is all fine and good but this is a way of serializing my thoughts [...]

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Footie – Sessions 10 and 11

3/13/2009 – 2:36 pm

Recap: Remarkably similar days both today and last Friday. Two fields going with about two subs for both teams. Both Fridays featured skillful games played at an up-tempo pace. Both Fridays, I was on the superior team (a core group of guys tend to wear replica jerseys that are colored, while others wear white or [...]

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Off the Grass

3/12/2009 – 4:24 pm

I finished the audio version of The Tin Drum by Günter Grass earlier this afternoon. Much of it was good, parts of it were breathtaking, but I felt that it was too long. The problem is that I wouldn’t quite know what to cut. There are definite highlights—the beach scene with the eels, the events [...]

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2009 Is Already Better Than 2008…

3/10/2009 – 12:25 pm

I just received word from Ellen Datlow that my story “The Hodag” (which appeared in Black Static #7) is going to be reprinted in Best Horror of the Year #1 by Night Shade books! Yay yay yay! After a couple honorable mentions in Year’s Best Science Fiction and Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, this is [...]

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Not Our Thing

3/6/2009 – 11:11 am

We signed up for a six-week parenting class over at the hospital where we’ll be delivering. Classes go from 6:30 to 9:00 (!) and Amy doesn’t think I can try to get this time converted into credits and transferred onto my transcript. We went for the first session last night and, how can I say [...]

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrel

3/4/2009 – 5:36 pm

The post title is my own (tongue-in-cheek) self-assessment after pulling a fast one on my English 101 students. Happily, I don’t think they hold it against me. I assigned Jeffrey Ford’s story “The Honeyed Knot” for class two weeks ago. It’s a twisty, turny, convoluted, non-linear story with only the slightest bit of a speculative [...]

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If It’s Not One Thing…

3/1/2009 – 11:12 pm

Well, this weekend we put a lot of work into converting my old office (the smaller bedroom in our two-bedroom house) into a nursery, and brought my desk and bookshelves into our master bedroom (and now office). I like the new arrangement quite a bit, except one minor problem… Actually, it’s a major problem insofar [...]

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