Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Please see the update at the bottom of this post.
What do we know for sure about Jonathan Petropoulos, Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College, former head of CMC’s Centre for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights, expert on Nazi art looting, and my colleague?
We know that he and a German partner [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are too many things to do.
The too many things to do are all individually meaningless.
I don’t know what the things to do are.
Other people who do know don’t care; but they want me to care with better doublethink than they need to show.
I want to do all these things better than anyone else.
I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have so much to say and no time to say it. Everyone wants a piece of me. Could someone please remind me why I agreed to be chair? Oh yes! I had no choice. And as soon as my slightly junior colleague gets tenure — haw haw — it’s hers. Payback for those nice [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Where did the summer go? I was just getting set to blog on how baggage handlers stole 150$ worth of plamobil from my suitcase on the way to Canada — more fool me for putting it in a ziplock bag — when I see it’s time to start packing to go back to California. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I don’t understand why some people complain about the bad language the kids pick up in the car. There is nothing more likely to give me a spurt of joy than hearing Eila holler out from the backseat, MOVE ALONG YOU BASTARDS, THE LIGHT IS GREEN! It’s so frolicsome. I get a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
is off to battle a couple of Levinas conferences. Tra la la!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m very busy: trying to get two papers written for delivery at the end of the month and prepare for the summer. I would guess most people are busy at the moment. But right now I have a singular complaint. The day before I’m hosting a birthday for twelve children at my house is NOT [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The one that says “Assistant Professor.”
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“You drink plonk, right?” wrote my friend. “So I can drop off all my old bottles of gut rot at your door this aft?” I thought for a nanosecond about taking offense, and shot back a relatively grateful yes. I know my friend wouldn’t turn her nose up at a bottle of ripple were she [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A former student, now graduated, will be pitching a tent in my backyard tonight. Last week another came by; she unrolled her sleeping bag in the living room. The latter of these is jobless. The former is gainfully employed as a barista. This is the kind of student I attract and care about enough to [...]
