So the State Department wants to send me to Cairo for the summer but I said yes to the Carter Center. WHY ARE SUMMERS NOT SIX MONTHS LONG?

So there are some things you don't forget, or rather if your mind forgets your body remembers. Like the turn up the bank and throught the willows two miles down the Porcupine, with the dogs running out strong. I got on the sleigh 2 hours off the plane with half a brain still somewhere over the rockies in a book and just went and then it was like ( Read more... )

Oscars: Sunday

Location: Please advise

Food: Please advise

Time: Really please advise, because I'm TV illiterate

Yes I know we all have work/thesis/job applications/thesis/pounding coffee headaches and not enough sleep. But please. Jon Stewart is hosting.

1. I've spent the last four days in the company of a particularly onerous historian. He is unavoidable, since few people have written histories on my thesis topic. However he and I disagree in a one-sided interchange of my reading his writing and then my yelling at innocent bystanders ( Read more... )

So I’m thinking that I should update my LJ every day with the Current Plan of Demuth’s Future.  Or maybe every hour.  People could take bets on which Plan will actually occur.

There has been a lot of communication chez moi.  This means I don’t get enough sleep, because ( Read more... )

Where can my dad park overnight near campus without having his car hauled away?

So all I wanted was a picture of the cow being loaded up for slaughter. We pulled over to the side of the road and I got out and put on the long lens, the CIA-style lens, and started snapping photographs of the bull with it's head tied back and one flailing leg, and the men glossy with sweat, muscles pulled bare across their arms and back ( Read more... )

So. After three airplanes and one bus with less-than-perfect AC, I've arrived in Owerri. The country is chaotic - the driving alone will probably give me gray hair, and it's hot, and there is no running water, which all feels good. To be honest I've missed the confusion.

Work begins tomorrow. Much to be done and so little to do it with.

Thanks guys - it was really really sweet and lovely.

WHEN in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ( Read more... )