For those of you who really know me (and I am referring to the in-the-flesh me), you will be excited to know that I, at long last, have access to the internet from my home!!! This is one of the first times in my entire life that I have both owned my own computer and at the same time have had access to this [not-so] amazing media! Yippee ( Read more... )

As some of you may have been aware, Saturday was my birthday. Never having been particularly fond of birthday parties (when I was a child no one ever came to them--even when induced with free activities such as roller skating!), I didn't advertize that fact much around the department, preferring to perhaps go out with a small group of folks to a ( Read more... )

Yes, I do believe that is how I would describe my attitude toward this format recently. Mainly this is because I have been extremely busy in moving and preparing for the beginning of the semester at the same time. The long and short of this would be that I haven't even really looked at a computer in about two weeks and haven't had a chance to get ( Read more... )

After spending a pleasant weekend with apperception I realized that my comprehensive exam is about two weeks away. Seeing as how I still have a great deal of reading left to do about Ancient conceptions of the body and soul, I am going to take at least a two week LJ sabbatical. See you on the hither side of hell!

Now I've been an Al Sharpton fan for some time; regardless of what others say of him, he has a point that need be acknowledged and he makes it rather well. Last night, however, he put the icing on the proverbial cake. In a time in which Democrats consider the word "liberal" to be akin to saying "fuck" on national television, and in fact have ( Read more... )

Today at work, I have accomplished absolutely nothing. The day began with a discussion with Cheryl about Kant, graduate school, fellowship opportunities, and the bit of babysitting I did yesterday (read: entertaining her four-year-old brainiac daughter). Then I started working on my word lists (yes, I have returned to the indexing task) until ( Read more... )

If reading Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein has reinforced one thing with me, it is the importance of written communication between individuals. As a know technophobe who resists most attempts to become "digitized"--this being the notable exception--I have frequently been ridiculed or patronized for my disdain of computers. Recently, for ( Read more... )

So yesterday, for the second time in my life, I was an [unwilling] participant in a road rage incident. The first time was about seven or so years ago and involved my friend Marc, who was driving, getting punched in the face and his door getting kicked in--you remember that, right Paul ( Read more... )

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I spent this weekend with my father at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. I'm not sure what I expected, but was a little surprised at how even the Hall of Fame supports the view of baseball as big industry. I have to admit, I like the Red Sox, but I purposefully try to watch as little as possible and never buy anything because I try to ( Read more... )