15 March 2009

The Ides: Recalling Time, Remembering Lives

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A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. Well, I haven't heard any soothsaysers lately, or at least I don't think I have. And...
13 March 2009

Momento Allegro

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The D train hurtled through the tunnel from 34th Street-Herald Square to the West Fourth Street Station. For a long time, that was my favori...
12 March 2009

We Don't Need No Education

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At least I didn't have to go to the college today. In fact, I didn't talk to anybody until I went for my electrolysis session. There...
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11 March 2009

Isolation

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Today at the college, I felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness overtaking me after I taught my first class: The Poetics and Rhetoric of Hi...
09 March 2009

The Fatigue Defense

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Today my department had its monthly meeting, which was supposed to be held last Monday but was cancelled because a snowstorm closed the coll...
08 March 2009

Quinquagesima

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Today was warmer than normal for this time of year, as yesterday was. And both days passed under overcast skies that didn't so much thre...
07 March 2009

In Four Months I'll Slip Into My New Gender Identity

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So now we're down to four months... Who's "we?," you ask. I guess I am speaking for both the person who is moving me onwar...
06 March 2009

Every Girl Should Be So Lucky

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I knew the economy was bad. But I wasn't expecting to see anything like this: A favorite Thai restaurant was empty at lunchtime on Frida...
05 March 2009

No Escape and No Luxury

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Getting closer and closer... Didn't accomplish much today. Got up late, but I probably needed the sleep, as I'd been up late the las...
04 March 2009

My Course, A Real Education As Justine

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One of my students in the Poetics and Rhetoric of Hip-Hop class I'm teaching is writing a feature for the college newspaper. It happens ...
02 March 2009

Snowstorm

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School's out....for today. It snowed last night, let up this morning and snowed some more this afternoon. In all, eight or ten inches, d...
01 March 2009

A Matter of Time

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"Can you believe it? We're into March already." "I know." "Only four more months..." That was Mom remindin...
28 February 2009

Size Matters

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OK, now I'm going to tell you something counterintuitive. (Oh, that word is so pretentious. But I used it again!) It might not matter mu...
27 February 2009

Le Cafe Perdu

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Today Bruce and I went to lunch at the Red Egg, a Chinese restaurant on a part of Centre Street that sits in a nether-world between Chinatow...
26 February 2009

Going to School: It's a Girl Thing, Ya Know

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It's really strange to have the day off on a Thursday. For as long as I can remember--yes, even back in elementary school--it was my lon...
25 February 2009

You Should See Yourself Giddy With Shakespeare and Ice-T

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I haven't studied biology in more than thirty years. I'll be the first to admit that I don't remember much, and what little I do...
24 February 2009

My Worst Fears Are Coming True And I'm Ecstatic. What Do I Do Now?

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Maybe I'm not joking after all when I tell people about my "special tranny powers." You know...I can put together an outfit. I...
22 February 2009

Taking History Personally

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Tonight I watched 60 Minutes. There was a time in my life when that was the only TV program I watched, and I never missed an episode. It is ...