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Summer Soups
Ms. S. recently dubbed me the King of Soups. It’s possible that she was exaggerating; it’s possible that I misremember exactly what she said. But hyperbole or not, it’s true that soups have recently been “my thing.” Before this year … Continue reading
Wednesday in Review: Battenberg, Lunch & Coffee
I awoke this morning almost ten minutes before my alarm was to go off. The 2nd half of season 1 of “Türkisch für Anfänger” had finished encoding overnight. I checked my email, showered, packed my things, had a glass of … Continue reading
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Battenberg … half done
Tuesday is one of my “days off” though I should (and sometimes do) use it for productive dissertation work. I need to get back to work on that but have been feeling a little unmotivated recently.
The missing links …
Growing up “The Links” were the friends of the family; Mrs. Link had been a high school friend of my aunt, who isn’t really my aunt, for she’s my father’s first cousin, about 11 years older than he, and sort … Continue reading
Smooth and aromatic with a hint of light citrus
Back to Gn’R if only briefly, a continuation from yesterday. I started listening to Guns N’ Roses in the 8th grade by way of the radio and bus rides to track meets, but it was in Germany that I came … Continue reading
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I’ve got imitation ice cream. Yum.
I finished 23 hours of so of “E” this afternoon when I made it through two albums of Evanescence. Here’s the thing, it’s just light nu-metal with a female vocalist, and it accomplishes the same thing as those generic-world-music-female-vocalist tracks … Continue reading
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It’s fish-fry-Friday, but I did not get any fish today.
I stayed in the department rather late, even though after a short day of teaching I wanted to get out early … alas! Julie visited my class today to hand out some surveys; it seems Melissa was a student of … Continue reading
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Stranded at Sam Waltons’s place
Music: Edie Brickell (from Volcano); other “E” singers and bands on the list include ELO, Elis Regina, Sir Elton, Elvis, Eminem, Enrique Iglesias, Enya, Eric Clapton, the Eurythmics, Eva Trout, and Evanescence. The Clapton and Eurythmics are the things I … Continue reading
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