09 April 2009

Can You Get Over the Fear of Sleep?

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I can't help but to think about being under anaesthesia for my surgery. Is it odd that I'm more worried about that aspect of my surg...
08 April 2009

Spring Break; The Point Is...

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Spring recess is about to start. I can't wait. I warned my students, especially the freshmen in my composition class, that there will be...
07 April 2009

Three More Months; Strange Bedfellows

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My surgery is three months--91 days--from today. The funny thing is that today I had less of a sense than I had yesterday that some things i...
06 April 2009

One Step Closer: Where Will I Wake Up?

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One more meeting. Today my department had its penultimate meeting of this academic year. One more to go...until my surgery. It seems lately ...
05 April 2009

Palm Sunday

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Today is Palm Sunday. I can remember when this day would begin a week of going to church twice a day with my Catholic school classmates. Eve...
04 April 2009

Opening In The Wind

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"Winter's coming!" That's what Johnny, Millie's husband, exclaimed when I saw him by his car this evening. The wind wh...
02 April 2009

Changing Clothes

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Tonight I am doing yet another thing that I'm most likely doing for the last time in my current life. It's really exciting: I'm ...
01 April 2009

Sleep and Dreams

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I was just talking to Dominick. He told me I should go to bed because he was tired. Well, OK, it wasn't quite like that. He said he was ...
31 March 2009

M'illumno D'immenso

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Today looked like a spring day, but didn't quite feel the part. It may've had to do with the hint of chill in the air that turned in...
30 March 2009

Ghosts Don't Blush

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Today I went someplace I haven't been in many years--ten, to be specific. I'd gone to the New York City College of Technology to tak...
29 March 2009

One Hundred Days To Go

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Barack Obama is still in his First Hundred Days. Tomorrow I will start my last hundred days. That's right: It's only one hundred day...
28 March 2009

You're Not Adopted

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Someone once asked Anne Coulter what she would do if her son told her he was gay. "I'd tell him he was adopted," she snapped b...
27 March 2009

Not Total Recall, Thank You

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tToday Bruce and I were walking around SoHo, the neighborhood in which he works. I worked there, too, many years ago: half my lifetime ago. ...
26 March 2009

Defending Him: Catfight?

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I'm not a violent person. But I did have a fleeting thought... Dominick told me about a female co-worker who accused him of cursing at h...
25 March 2009

Which Way Next?

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OK, so let's see...In the last two days, I submitted a paper that will contribute absolutely nothing to my professor's (or anyone el...
23 March 2009

A March Or A Journey?

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Bricks reflected orange light turning red from the setting sun. Somehow this felt autumnal, even though spring arrived (at least officially)...
21 March 2009

The Lie of Spring

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Yesterday was the first official day of Spring. And it snowed early in the morning. Today was sunny but still chilly. In other years, this d...
20 March 2009

Hormones, Migraines, Laughter and Tears?

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Tonight I called Dominick. I caught him as he was having supper with an old friend of his, who was his Spanish teacher in high school. Domin...