here I am
Still here. Eating reasonably well. The newish Tibetan place in Davis Sq. turns out to have yummy soups for small money. Soup & a spicy potato naan on a cold day, mmm.
It's disgusting out. Paraphrasing la_chispa, I like my days to look different from my nights.
Annoyed at all my instructors. One of them only because he's more interested in economics than I am, so the readings aren't so much doing it for me. In my cog. sci. class this week, though, we spent the first hour as guinea pigs for his research. Don't people usually get $5 or at least a cookie for doing that? And the third one sent us to the library for a workshop in how-to-do-research-for-your-final-paper workshop: here's the online catalog, here are the e-journals, isn't this quirky? Sigh. Must be the end of the term.
I like this quote from a comment that Timothy Burke made on Crooked Timber, discussing the idea that universities enforce liberal orthodoxy: "The real issue here is the way that each successive academic generation succeeds in installing its own conventional wisdom as the guardian at the gates, and burns the principle of academic freedom in subtle, pervasive fires aflame in the little everyday businesses and gestures of academic life."
It's disgusting out. Paraphrasing la_chispa, I like my days to look different from my nights.
Annoyed at all my instructors. One of them only because he's more interested in economics than I am, so the readings aren't so much doing it for me. In my cog. sci. class this week, though, we spent the first hour as guinea pigs for his research. Don't people usually get $5 or at least a cookie for doing that? And the third one sent us to the library for a workshop in how-to-do-research-for-your-final-paper workshop: here's the online catalog, here are the e-journals, isn't this quirky? Sigh. Must be the end of the term.
I like this quote from a comment that Timothy Burke made on Crooked Timber, discussing the idea that universities enforce liberal orthodoxy: "The real issue here is the way that each successive academic generation succeeds in installing its own conventional wisdom as the guardian at the gates, and burns the principle of academic freedom in subtle, pervasive fires aflame in the little everyday businesses and gestures of academic life."