Somewhere back a few weeks ago, I passed a milestone of sorts–the end of my first year teaching. I almost missed it, in the middle of everything else I was trying to keep track of. Presented for your amusement and edification, a brief (and certainly incomplete) accounting of what I’ve been up to [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | No Comments »>Getting ready to leave the house on Thursday morning, Matt and I agreed that “regalia” is a really good word.
So here’s the thing. The night before graduation, we were out for dinner with my family, and in the middle of dinner my mother turned to me, looked me straight in the eye, and asked [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | 2 Comments »> Puffy hat and all.
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Posted in academic, personal | 26 Comments »>Last night, talking to Matt about some detail related to my graduation ceremony, I had to pause and point out the obvious. “This is all assuming that California hasn’t washed into the sea by then.”
It’s been raining for, I don’t know, eight thousand years. Or at least since January. Some days it’s sunny [...]
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