Art Harvey is dead. In fact, he's been dead for over a year, but I just found out when I received an email yesterday from the attorney handling his estate, because I was a witness to his Last Will and Testament. Although I scan Notre Dame Magazine for such news whenever I get an issue, I somehow missed this, and just the other day I found myself ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think that the most interesting piece of data on the iTunes display isn't the "Play Count" column but the "Last Played" one. I glance at it, as "Suffer Little Children" by The Smiths is playing, one of 282 songs in my "All Time Favourites" playlist out of my 4913 songs in iTunes. And I think, "Have I really not listened to this song ( Read more... )

This last week featured lots of running around with Jen, more than I would have thought possible after the comparatively excessive amount of free time that it was possible to squeeze out of my Spring Break. Last Sunday, after trying out a French restaurant south of the Third Ward, we took in the Saw Doctors' concert at the Potawatami Bingo Casino ( Read more... )

The midterm exams are now finished, with my second section of Intro to Theology seeming more amiable about the affair. During the exam, while keeping a watchful eye for untoward shenanigans - particularly tacky in a Theology course - I went rifling through the pockets of my sport coat. I hadn't worn this particular jacket in a while, it being a ( Read more... )

After four days of headaches and lethargy, it's good to be able to get out of bed again for a sustained length of time. I took in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream tonight with Aaron and Dawn Smith, and a friend of theirs, an undergraduate here named Janice. Tony Bonta was supposed to have joined us but was called away on family business ( Read more... )

Interesting weekend so far. Interviewed the second of the two outside Chair candidates for the Department of Theology and I am continuing to be initiated into departmental politics. Not in a negative way, but in hearing all that goes into having a vision for a department and what it takes to execute it. I tend to look at things so optimistically ( Read more... )