It's Monday after Pride Weekend in NYC. I'm typing in an exceedingly comfortable internet cafe on West 10th St. It has been a fun weekend over all, but NYC has changed so much. It's kind of like fun has been privatized. OK, the weather was not ideal: there were major downpours on both Saturday and Sunday, the latter one just as the parade was ( Read more... )

Things have been looking up recently. I have a job in the fall, at a really great school: highly progressive, committed to collaborative learning, with a very active gay-straight alliance for both students and faculty. It's really tiny (34 in last year's graduating class). For the last four years, I've been teaching at a very traditional boys' ( Read more... )