Some excellent moments throughout the last week or so. While being sort of marooned away from family was not my first preference for the Easter holiday, I had some chances to make up for that. One highlight was having a good talk with my brother Joe at the beginning of April in celebration of his birthday, reminding me again how after my visit to ( Read more... )

Behold!:

MICHAELMAS!


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Lots more incidental paperwork and such has kept me busy with the end of the school year. More than I'd wish. But that's not all. Mari left to visit family in Hungary today, and to wander some in Europe and beyond after, so we had dinner last night to hang out for a few last hours. I'd intended to finally introduce her to Dante's Kitchen, but ( Read more... )

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Live from New Orleans: looks like we have a winner! It's a few blocks off St. Charles Avenue, quiet and lined with old trees. About a mile's walk or bike ride to the University. I'm on the second, main floor of a gorgeous old monster of a house, with some of the other five apartments taken by a Tulane med student, an Army Corps of Engineers ( Read more... )

More-or-less random tidbits:

Erik called yesterday, picking up our conversation from Thursday dinnertime, when he had been talking with me when Tim Cahill, the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Loyola had called me with the job offer. ("Tell him I said 'Hi!' laughed Erik randomly, as I switched over to the other call. I did. I'm ( Read more... )

Naaaaaahhh naah naah na na na naaahh ... na na na naaahh....Kinda flying right now. Just spent the last three-and-a-half hours with Kevin, one of my best friends from Notre Dame, who I hadn't actually seen face-to-face for 14 months, since visiting him and Frannie in Tulsa a year ago last December. He had discovered a few weeks ago that he would ( Read more... )

I was gifted with a bit of a breather around the turn of the month. After the big "dissertation sprint" through January, and then the revising of the text and editing it into its more-or-less final form, I'm now about to revise the revisions now that Professor Fahey has had a chance to read through the whole text in its entirety and to email me a ( Read more... )