So so much. . . A fun, full and stressful time - I hope I have time to write about it some time next year. This is just a place-holder.

5 Songs I'm Feeling:

"She's a Woman" - I know that I just (well, not just - my last music post was in late June) wrote a whole thing about two Beatles' albums, but having just gotten the re-mastered version of the "Past Masters" double CD (including rarities and singles) there were a few songs I have never owned a personal copy of. "She's a Woman ( Read more... )

Waiting for Kit to get here ( Read more... )

Once upon a time I used to write weekly reports of my teaching or my grad school classes, but right now there is none of that. Instead, I seem to be giving reports of my weekends, because while they may not be as enlightening and educational as those weeks of learning and teaching (and learning) they are no less fruitful and a shitload of fun ( Read more... )

My family moved to Sunset Park from the Bronx near the middle of 1973, and we lived there until March or April of 1984 when we moved to the Red Hook Projects, when my mom was forced, for reasons both economic and social, to bring us there. However, by the time I came back for my first weekend home from prep school, we had moved back to the old ( Read more... )

( Tuesday )

I found myself on one of the new "M" trains last Thursday afternoon when nobody was around. It was eerie being on this clean and alien train in my home borough.


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What was it I wrote in the fall when break fell on the 13th week of the semester? "Like a superstitious skyscraper we skip thirteen." I like that, and we have done it again. I did not have much of a spring break to speak of, as I worked for most of it, but I did take last Thursday and Friday off, going shopping for an entertainment center with ( Read more... )

It was so beautiful this morning. Everything quiet and covered in pristine white. People were just starting to get up to shovel their walks, and the plows had come and gone in the night, leaving the middle of the street the easiest place to walk. As other people trudged through the three or four inches already on the ground on the way to the ( Read more... )

Is it a bad sign to be exhausted already ( Read more... )