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Hallo Spaceboy
The laundromat raised prices 25 cents on their front-load washers. So now the rates are: * top load: $1.25 * double-load front load: $2.25 * triple-load front load: $3.00 * quad-load front load: $4.00 * $0.25/10-minutes for the dryers I … Continue reading
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Let them eat Cake
I made it to “C.” I was supposed to get together with J&C and Matt on Sunday to watch “Das Leben der Anderen” — one of the best recent German films, and one which has won a lot of awards. … Continue reading
Mitteilungen aus Madison, or: “who prompts visions of sex with a Smurf”
My office has not been touched since December; the week before xmas I came in twice to hold “office hours” of sorts, allowing my students to come by and pick up old homework, quizzes, exams, and papers.I always want my … Continue reading
Let’s call today Blahday rather than Thursday.
I got up late but not too late. No energy, even after a shower, tea, and cereal. Just no desire to do anything. For another blog I was writing about Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan (a large, beautiful, cycle of poems inspired … Continue reading
I like to be under the sea
… In an octopus’s garden. I wanted a translation of Lenau’s short (7 stanza, 4 lines per stanza) poem “Die drei Zigeuner” (The Three Gypsies), so I searched 4M, which houses the German literature collection (see the PT area, in … Continue reading
Gross Slayage
There is little more fascinating than a Geostationary Banana Over Texas. 12+(22×6)=144 episodes. 7 seasons. 40 DVDs. That is a lot of Buffy, let me tell you.
Season’s Beatings
“Season’s Beatings” seems like an appropriate sentiment, although with the (much) warmer than usual weather (currently 47F — coincidence, Pomona People? I think NOT!) and pleasant literary diversions at hand, I cannot or should not complain too much. Season’s Beatings … Continue reading