There’s something singularly irritating about coming in to campus on a rainy Saturday, hoping to get some work done, only to discover that you no longer have after-hours key-card access to your building. We’ve sorted it out, finally–it looks like my building access was accidentally listed as expiring at the end of fall semester, [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | No Comments »>I’ve had a string of days full of tiny irritations–each little thing is insignificant on its own, but as they accumulate I start to feel like I’m being nibbled to death by cats. I’ve locked myself out of my campus office five times in two days, locked myself out of the house once, and [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | 6 Comments »>You know how some family traditions don’t even really look like family traditions until you get some distance from them? If it’s just what everyone does, you don’t even notice. I’ve said before that I never really felt Italian until I left New Jersey; after leaving the East Coast entirely, I’ve felt more [...]
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