So, I found myself at a dinner for a wedding rehearsal last night.  Everything was delicious, albeit much more on the rich cream sauce side of things than I'm used to these days.  As I was enjoying my entree - two thin slices of chicken breast, breaded and pan-fried, with a delicious white french cheese and some prosciutto between the two pieces of ( Read more... )

I'm not thrilled, obviously, with the results of this election.  One of the two people in the Senate that I've genuinely looked up to as something of a personal hero is no longer going to be there.  The house has flipped.  The Senate will be deadlocked ( Read more... )

I'm not a fan of being ill.  I'm especially not a fan of being ill over the bestest weekend of the year.  There were no parties for me.  There was oozing and being cranky.  Feh.  Now I'm at that vexing stage where I'm no longer so sick that I'm just dead beat tired... but I'm not focused and clever enough to do anything other than be annoyed at the ( Read more... )

I just noticed a headline blurb in the Times ( Read more... )

I read Hayek's Road to Serfdom on the train ride home today.  It was... interesting.  I was initially a very hostile audience, having only ever encountered his ideas at second hand.  I came away from reading his work with a much more positive view of Hayek and his ideas.  The versions of Hayek's thought that I've encountered have been very one- ( Read more... )

This has been a slow week, mercifully - after wearing both wedding DJ and best man hats at Z & J's wedding over the weekend, I was *exhausted*.  That was a stressful experience.  Everything went well, however, save for perhaps letting Z get a bit too drunk at the bachelor party late in the evening when I'd stopped monitoring his drink intake.  The ( Read more... )

So today, the laptop and projector that I use for powerpoint slides in one of my classes (only one of my two wednesday classrooms has a built-in projector) vanished.  The department literally doesn't know what happened to them... argle...

I'm able to give a lecture without ppt, but without *any* notes... that's not a good time...

Oh well, I

I had a new experience in class today.  One of my students asked if they could go home, because they weren't feeling well.  Of course, I said yes.  Sadly, they didn't make it out of the classroom before throwing up all over the floor, and all over one poor student's laptop.  Ack.  (I suppose... perhaps this was more of a curse day for the guy with ( Read more... )

I've been dieting some, lately. Part of this process involves paying attention - something that I never *really* did to my food. That is a good and useful and helpful thing. It has gotten me thinking about the numbers involved in other parts of my life, as well. I'm decent at keeping to a budget - being a cheapskate with no real debts helps ( Read more... )

I was watching a bit of coverage about Rick Sanchez's dismissal from CNN. Granted, the meaning behind what he said was much more than the simple words, devoid of context, would imply, and absolutely struck an inappropriate and anti-Semitic tone, but I was struck by how similar his remarks were to others that I have heard, and about which there has ( Read more... )