31 January 2010

Trannies, Trains and Creativity

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Today my long-lost cousin called. Well, actually, he's newly-found, as I am to him. You see, near the end of August, he and I met for th...
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30 January 2010

No Deduction, Just My Life

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"Can you deduct that?" If you live in the USA and you've been reading this blog, you know what that question refers to. ...
29 January 2010

Ramble On Waking Up Late

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It's amazing how quickly the day goes by when you wake up late. I'm not so surprised about waking up late: Yesterday, the first da...
28 January 2010

Where Does It Begin Or End?

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Today was the first day of the Spring semester. Funny that they should call it that: It snowed this morning and there's talk of more on...
26 January 2010

Meetings

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Today I guess I had a taste of the "real world": I spent most of it in meetings. If I told my students, or any other young perso...
25 January 2010

Is Prometheus What Pandora Would Have Been Had She Been A Man?

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Last night the drizzle turned into rain. It became a torrent that raged, with the stiff winds, against my windows. At least I didn't h...
24 January 2010

Sunday Mist And Drizzle

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When does a mist become a drizzle? When you go outside. At least, that's how it seemed today. No mist is finer than the one you see thro...
23 January 2010

A Familiar Shore In A New Life

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Probably no cinematic scene is more emblazoned in my consciousness than the one that ends Le Quatre Cents Coups , a.k.a. The 400 Blows. Ant...
22 January 2010

Sleep And Body Heat

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Last night I fell asleep while reading a student's paper. That should not be taken as an assessment of the student's work: I prob...
20 January 2010

When I Started To Learn What Is Mine

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Tonight I got to see Dwayne again. Even though I saw him about two weeks ago, it felt like a reunion all over again. He says that I am a d...
19 January 2010

Mine: Becoming Mine

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Neither the students nor I can believe that the winter session is almost over: just two more days of classes. This means, of course, that th...
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18 January 2010

A Bike Ride Into Change

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I just had to get out of the house and on my bike, even if only for a little bit. And even if I still had a heavy cold. Today I pedaled som...
17 January 2010

Giving Birth To New Definitions Of Ourselves

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When I began my current life, I had assumed that there were two things I would never have: XX chromosomes and a uterus. Somehow I had the fe...