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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
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10:15 am - Orestes pursued by the Furries.
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| Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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11:42 pm - prop 8: the musical
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| Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
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9:33 pm
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Sitting in long underwear on my new couch, I have run out of things to do. Laundry is done. That haircut that I've needed for at least a month, I have performed. I've eaten dinner, and made myself dessert. I have even written a poem (a poem!) about sitting by the phone with nothing to do. In short, I have run out of ways to put off writing the lecture for my 9 A!M! class. So, I find myself posting here after months of silence.
Here is what I have been doing on those months of silence (in no particular order):
Working as the Campus Ministry coordinator at the UU church here (which means, among other things, getting up early on Sunday mornings and being cheerful about it).
Teaching an introductory class in Chinese philosophy.
Teaching a lecture course (for which i have graders!) -- introduction to philosophy.
Applying for grants to go overseas again, about which prospect I feel thoroughly ambivalent.
Trying to start writing a dissertation.
Recovering from a nasty accident (bike vs. car) last semester, in which I had several bones broken for me.
Loving on my kitty cat.
I'm leaving some things out, I suppose, but I'm still alive, about which fact you might have been wondering.
current mood:  okay
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| Monday, September 10th, 2007
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7:33 am
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It's 7:30 in the morning and animal crackers for breakfast. I'm thinking about Socrates on his way to trial and wishing I were in bed. 1.5 hours till I have to be coherent in front of my students.
current mood: lethargic
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| Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
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5:37 pm - mango, mango from Mexico
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Mango sesame sorbet:
3 ripe mangoes
1/2 c. coconut milk
1/4 c sugar
3 tbsp lime juice
1/2 - 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
Puree. Add 1.5 tbsp black sesame seeds and freeze.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
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| Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
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10:19 am - lemon balm for my soul, and for my inner spaces
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Lemon basil sorbet:
about 4 c lemon basil leaves (not packed)
about 2 c water
1.5 c sugar?
1 tbsp dried lavender flowers
2 tbsp lemon juice
Chop basil leaves, and bring to boil with water, sugar, and lavender, then simmer for two minutes. Put liquid through a fine sieve, and press remaining liquid out of basil leaves. Cool. Add lemon juice. Put into a large metal pan in the freezer, and freeze until much of the liquid has become crystalline, but not frozen solid (1-3 hours). Blend until chunks have been broken up. Return to freezer and freeze until approaching solidity (another 1-3 hours). Blend, and return to freezer in a quart container until solid.
Serve with a garnish of mint leaves, and make your friends guess what flavor it is.
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| Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
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5:50 pm - culinary adventures
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I'm thinking of making a basil sorbet (by first making basil simple syrup), and sweetening it a bit with honey. Two questions for my esteemed readers:
1) Would a bit of honey taste good with the basil (which might be of a lemony variety)?
2) Does honey affect the freezing properties of liquids?
In other news, I'm feeling moved to pickle lemons in brine in order to make salty lemonade, since there are no vietnamese restaurants within 100 miles of here, and I've been craving this all summer.
current mood: distracted
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| Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
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9:08 pm - SOS
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| Friday, June 22nd, 2007
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2:04 pm - Selfkiss
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| Saturday, June 16th, 2007
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1:33 am - Best cat poem ever, tho a trifle unseasonable.
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| Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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11:20 pm - p.s.s.s.
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11:03 pm - things broken
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Broken: 1 iBook G4
Status: Replaced by Mac.
Broken: 1 lawn mower handle
Status: Replaced for under $15.
Damaged: 1 left rear tire -- slipped belt
Status: Slipped belt judged a manufacturer's defect. Replaced by Sears.
Lost: Several days' productive work
Status: Gone, gone forever.
Damaged: User's heart
Status: Mending. In good care.
TCB.
I'm immensely grateful for the help of all of those service people who have helped make it likely that I'm going to get through the Summer intact, and caught up on my work. Now for starting to get through the Summer.
Also, I think I won $100 on a $5 lottery ticket. Here's to the heady cocktail of stupidity and good luck!
Also also, today I applied to enroll in a junior-level poetry workshop. I hope the instructor lets me in. I don't know if I could bear to be edumacated by one of my peers (i.e., if I took a lower-level course).
But now I'm just procrastinating.
current mood:  accomplished
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| Monday, May 28th, 2007
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9:03 pm - Here we go a-morelling, all in the month of May
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Rather than complaining about how you all seem to be lying down on the (posting) job lately, I thought that perhaps I should add something for your reading pleasure.
The only really interesting news I have is this:
Morel mushrooms are really really YUMMY
They were on sale at the Co-op (only $35/ lb!), so I bought about a quarter of a pound and cooked them up in this fashion:
--Saute morel mushrooms (cleaned and trimmed) in oh, say, 2 tbsp. butter.
--Remove from pan.
--In the same pan, saute maybe 1/3 c. of minced vidalia onion and two cloves of garlic in another tbsp. butter.
--When the onion is translucent, add 1/2 c. of dry white wine and ONE dried chipotle pepper.
--Reduce, then add 1/2 c. of vegetable broth and reduce some more.
--Somehow cook about .75 pounds of venison, and when the stars are properly aligned, add the venison to the reduced sauce, add the morel mushrooms back in, and wait a bit.
--Consume.
Have you all been cooking up any delectable dishes lately? Tell me about them!
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| Monday, April 30th, 2007
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9:31 am - Bank error in your favor. Collect $200.
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Hot Damn, do I love this place. Not only were the secretaries checking up on me to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing (since they know these things better than anyone else), but in the process they discovered that I (and some other first years) are supposed to receive fellowships for the summer. Fellowships that we had never heard of -- fellowships that ensure we have enough money to pay the rent. Hooray!
Also, I got a very part time job at the Unitarian Church. At most, 15 hours a week during some weeks of the summer. Therefore, I can also EAT this summer! What luxury!
(Now, back with me to the grindstone. Early Chinese linguistics awaits.)
current mood:  impressed
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| Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
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12:59 pm - that delicate middle-state
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"Over tribal drum rhythms and monstrous guitar riffs, it’s also a choreographed re-enactment of chaos, rude and simple and immaculate. It represents a total thesis on rock ’n’ roll — not by any means the only possible one but a great one. And the Stooges’ show at the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights on Monday night was an argument, too: for the re-uniting of old bands without shame or second thought, once they figure out what, philosophically, they were all about in the first place.
"Iggy Pop, now 59, is the captain of these inside-outside actions. Try to take your eyes off him. How he re-enacts fear, rage, sex, abject boredom, universal love and lethal cynicism, while dancing with originality, remembering lyrics and maintaining the delicate middle-state between having pants on and not having pants on, is why he is he, and you are merely you."
From the NYTimes review of the Stooges show, at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/arts/music/11stoo.html
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| Monday, April 9th, 2007
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11:48 am
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After a recent scary incident with estrogen (Women who have migraines with halo should *never ever ever* take birth control pills with estrogen, no matter how little, because of the increased risk of clotting and stroke.), and because of the nasty depression that my body falls into when I take progestin, it looks like I'll be choosing a more time-tested method of birth control.
No, not the rhythm method. I'm thinking seriously about getting an IUD, despite my slight discomfort at the idea of having something sitting in my uterus for five years. Yikes. My biological clock is seriously opposed to this idea, though. (I'd appreciate it if my biological clock would just shut up and go regulate something useful like my work schedule.)
I think this biological clock business is mostly due to the fact that many of my friends are getting married and having kids, and that my body just isn't working like it did two years ago. It's not quite the twilight of my life, but maybe it is the twilight of my reproductive life. (It doesn't help that my mom went through menopause before she was 40 -- I feel like I need to make a decision about having kids pretty soon.)
Any opinions? Bad experiences with IUDs? Rants against the social nature of biological clocks?
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| Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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2:04 pm - quitting smoking, still
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I gave up smoking back around Yom Kippur, in mid-September. I have been lucky enough to, up to this point, have no significant ill effects from quitting. But now, six months later, I'm feeling that sort of hollowness in my chest that means it's time to smoke. There's a market across the street -- should I go buy cigarettes? Oh, sigh. Maybe they'll give me some good brain drugs next week.
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| Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
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11:14 am - Mmm... moral theories... tasty.
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"Peter Singer supports the idea that people with sufficient means should aid those who are suffering from the effects of famine with certain moral theories."
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| Monday, February 26th, 2007
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9:04 pm
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| Friday, December 8th, 2006
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7:40 pm - supercool paper sculptures
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