At some point I will get around to posting about my amazing trip to Portland, but right now I need advice on something closer to home ( Read more... )

Hey, all you smart people on my friends list who have PhD's -- could you send me copies of your dissertation abstracts?  I need some templates to look at, and it's more fun to ask for yours than to on the University's Library website. :)

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in addition to thinking about getting another ballet technique class going, I've been thinking about offering a dance appreciation class out of my house. This would be an opportunity to speak some about dance history, dance technique, and also to watch a bunch of dance videos and talk about them with me and with others so that you could start to ( Read more... )

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What do you think is AWESOME about teenagers?
and/or
What about your own adolescence was particularly fantastic?

I'm trying to think past the idea that being a teenager is an inherently awful period in one's life, so please keep that in mind as you answer.

in the land of exciting developments, I need recommendations for good mortgage brokers/originators.  I would like to talk to several different people, so I want as many suggestions as possible. If anybody has experience working with a mortgage broker who was especially helpful with a multi-family house or with a mortgage on which more than the ( Read more... )

As faithful readers may know, Aatish and I are leaving for India to week from today. (I feel like, really, that previous sentence should be All in Caps, Followed by Many Exclamation Points, but You Get the Idea ( Read more... )

I don't suppose, by any chance, did any of you reading this have my copy of Flora segundalying around your house is anywhere? I need it for teaching this week and I can't find it anywhere.

Anybody on here and in the Boston area have a copy of Kim Stanley Robinson's book The Gold Coast that I could borrow for a few days?