Some items that each could be posts in themselves!
- Wow, am I excited that it’s spring break next week.
- Thomas Friedman is a tool. If only there were a MOOC to set him straight!
- I’m hosting a non-dinner-party dinner this weekend at which The Dude, CC, and CC’s beau will be in attendance. I am making boeuf bourguignon, accompanied by mashed potatoes, crusty bread, salad with creme fraiche dressing, and alcohol, so, really, how badly could it possibly go? It does hurt my feelings that The Dude won’t eat vegetables other than salad, but I suppose that is a small problem, in the grand scheme of things.
- I found out one of my students has been accepted into law school – with a full tuition scholarship for the first year and research assistantship funding for the second and third years… in other words, law school on a full ride.
- I’m exceptionally irritated about how some things in my department are being handled, but what else is new?
- Kitties are at turns irritating and delightful. I think Hugo’s new exercise regime combined with me being more careful about how much I feed them might be helping with his obesity problem, but man is it annoying how he begs for me to play with the laser pointer. Oliver is both the sweetest cat ever (to me), the most judgmental cat ever (to The Dude), and the most bossy cat ever (to everyone, including Hugo).
- This might delight you, kill your soul, be mildly amusing, or some combination of the three, depending on your feelings about Nine Inch Nails and Carly Rae Jepson.
- Snow in March is stupid.
- Did I tell you guys that BES won an essay prize from an allied organization of the MLA? Hells yeah!
- While I am loving my classes this semester, I am finding myself… tired… of my students in my upper-level course in my specialization, who would “rather be reading Harry Potter” than reading the Booker-Prize-Winning Possession by A.S. Byatt (which is fucking awesome). Dude, you are English majors. If all you want to do is read books written for children and teenagers, how can you live with yourselves?
Uh, Crazy, didn’t you just unmask another of your furry companions? How is the Man-Kitty now supposed to protect his privacy from his many fans?
EXCELLENT POSTE!
Re. #10: AND ADMITTING IT. That’s what gets me. I mean, I know, sometimes we all feel a little less than super intellectual, but English majors should at least have the wits to fake it. To their *professors*. (And *Possession* IS awesome. Losers.)
#1 Envy! (Our break came last month.)
#4 & #9? Yay, wow!
#10 I’m reading “Possession” for the third time, even though I generally loathe the Victorian novelists. Poets and essayists and fiction about Victorian writers rock this historians’ world, however! (And if they carve out the time, they can reread HP AND read “Possession”.)
#2: I have hypertension, so I have to be careful about what I consume. I’m under doctor’s order not to read more than two paragraphs of Tom Friedman’s ignorant nonsense every six months.
#7: Fie Upon This Quiet Life actually clued me into that a few days ago. Surprisingly, the soul-murder factor was lower than I’d feared. It’s intriguingly freaky that those two mash up so well.
ELP – Hugo has never really “cared” about pseudonymity… He only got one because Oliver had one. As for Oliver, he has really become much more affectionate and open in the past few years, and I intuit that he is no longer so worried about masking his identity. It might have something to do with all of the attention that Henri (with Ennui) is getting that he has not gotten because he has been more discreet. That said, he remains the one true Man-Kitty, but it’s more like how we all know that Sean “P.Diddy” Combs is also P.Diddy, Puffy, and Puff Daddy, or that Jay-Z is Sean Carter, or that Charlotte Bronte is Currer Bell. He embraces his “given” name, while at the same time he rocks his pseudonym. Don’t fence him in!!!
CPP – you only think it’s excellent because it’s short
Heu Mihi – I know, right????
J – YES!
Koshary – did you know that the producer of NiN also produced Carly Rae’s record? This might have something to do with the peculiar synergy of these songs.
True story: Trent Reznor was still very Cleveland-based (where I’m from) when I was in high school, and he was a SUPER douche. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’. So I have no reverence for NiN, even though I recognize his talent, blah blah blah.
re:#3: my man (13 years now) hates cheese and things cheesy and creamy. He is wonderful in every other respect. It makes cooking a challenge, but since everything else is hunky-dory and I know he will never eat the last of my feta, it’s actually not as much of a big deal as I thought it might be.
Snow in March is excellent if you can ski on it, and/or if you’re going away for spring break (preferably someplace warm)>