California Knows How to Party

I arrived back home today to 48 degrees and windy rain, and I thought to myself: I did not make the good life choices that my friend RG made.  And I heard the song that inspired the title of this post on the radio n my drive home, and that only added insult to injury.  [...]

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Paying it Forward

I defended my dissertation in August of 2oo3.  I’d moved back to my hometown in May 2002, so the whole defense business meant that I needed to fly back and take care of the whole defense thing in a few days, knowing that I already had a tenure-track job that was to start in just [...]

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Exhale

I have a full nine pages of my conference paper for next week.  Is it the best thing I’ve ever written?  No.  Do I make many provocative theoretical claims that I have no hope of substantiating in 20 minutes?  Yes.  Is it, ultimately, “new work”?  Most definitely.  But, if I were held at gunpoint and [...]

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Woohooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, y’all.  After the sad sack post I did this morning, I really hadn’t thought I’d have anything that would brighten my day enough to post again today.  I mean, I had to give a big lecture about Expectations related to what I described in that post, a lecture that involved a caveat about how [...]

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Entertaining

So, if I do say so myself, my party last night was fantastic.  Everybody seemed to have an excellent time, and what’s better, I had an excellent time. I’ve never been a person to throw parties.  I’m a person to go to parties, or I’m a person to go to a bar instead of throwing [...]

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A Milestone

Today, I went out and ran errands in a pair of jeans that I don’t think I’ve been able to button for the past two years.  (I mean, it’s possible that I had some sort of strange skinny day in that time span and just didn’t know it and so didn’t try on those jeans, [...]

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Insert Song Title Here

So I almost titled this post the title of this song: But then I realized that might be mean, because I am no longer working for the weekend, as I have reached the point where I have decided that I am done working on that chapter! Now, sure, I did tell myself a lie about [...]

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