Reader, I married the guy in the eye patch below. He doesn't have an eye patch in real life. We ran off to BC for three years all for my academic jobs. Now we're back under a layer of coal dust--cookies and brains! Cake and friends!
What next? I don't know. Academia's the same cad it's always been, and I'm only seeing it part-time.

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I've overdone it! I'm officially exhausted ( Read more... )

My new approach is working and I'm actually getting some work done, while still doing all the other creative work I want to do! Still have a daunting book review to write over the next couple of days, a conference paper to deliver next Friday, and an open mic and 200 cupcakes to make between now and then, but for once I'm bloody HAPPY ( Read more... )

Macho music scenes. This picture of The Band and a naked woman sums up so much of the kind of atmosphere I've found myself in off and on over the years, full bore again this year, and thus it also sums up so much of the horror that has accompanied my deeply ambivalent and long-standing love of rock and roll.
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Here's a dandy little interview meme from edgecondition. Hooray for doing internets instead of work on a Thursday morning!

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As it turns out, I think I'm resolving a lot of unresolved things about my life this month ( Read more... )

At last it is the weekend. Weekends don't really have much significance in the grad student lifestyle, but this one seems to put an end to the most romantically eventful week of my life ( Read more... )

Woke up at five, and I won't go through all the mind-racing: it was all fairly ridiculous early-morning paranoia ( Read more... )

I'm so exhausted. It's like I've forgotten how to fall asleep. It's such an exciting time with the move and Cathy's baby (that still refuses to be born, against all odds!!!) and my dissertation getting some steam and trip to Vancouver and seeing the mathematician more... that I'm making myself ill and exhausted and lethargic with spiraling insomnia ( Read more... )