I’m a genius

Clearly, I picked the perfect time to do a PhD that requires travel to an EU country for research. Those numbers on the left? That’s how many dollars it’s taken to equal 1 euro over the last two years.

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Sometimes, this is how I feel about things…

After finding an undisturbed swatch of 70s-era wallpaper behind her bathroom mirror, Redneck Mother sez:There is no attractive wallpaper. Ever. Don’t email me your wallpaper photos, because I will only pretend to concede the point and then mock you behind your back.Try as I might to be sweet and kind, especially to people I don’t [...]

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Crinkle crinkle

Ugh, I have fluid in my left ear that’s making crinkly sounds when I yawn. Which is happening a lot today because I’m inexplicably tired after sleeping roughly 9 1/2 hours last night. Today I’ve been sorting out travel details and making lists, and have thankfully now moved on to transferring old notes [...]

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It’s official

I’m back to Dublin October 8 to November 8. Or, to be more specific, back to Dublin for three weeks starting October 8 and then skipping around from Thurles to Dublin to Belfast back to Dublin from November 1 to November 7 before heading home on the 8th.

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Good old days

You know, when Portage/California Ave. looked rough, but different rough.and further down, Portage bridge over (now nonexistent) railroad tracks by Martin’s.
Pics courtesy of a neighbor in the ‘hood.

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One good thing…

…is Ken Burns’ The War on PBS now. Yes, it’s a commitment, and yes, you can wait until it comes out on DVD and watch it at your leisure, but it beats all hell out of most stuff on TV, even those new shows that look so sparkly and fancy in the commercials.I was [...]

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Interrupting regular programming

For a real good freak-out! I’ve been offered a couch at my friend’s apartment in Dublin for the month of October, and now all I have to do is figure out how to pay for, you know, actually living there. Home equity loan? No thanks, I need far less than $5000 and [...]

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Apropos of nothing

I want this.

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Big ‘un

A last bit about the Jena 6 being an example of a more general issue… At the bottom of the case, according to all the commentators I’ve heard and seen in the last few days is the inequality of prosecution of black and white students. Which, in turn, says something very important about [...]

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Jena 6

If you haven’t heard the story, the facts of the case are roughly this:
During an assembly at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana August 31, 2006, a black male freshman student asked the principal if black students could sit under what was known as the “white tree” in the school courtyard, which [...]

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