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LiveBlogging the Closing Ceremonies 13 Aug 2012 | 07:15 am
[10:55] Thanks for participating in the Olympics, countries. Here, have a scorched copper petal with your name on it. Don't know where you'll put it, but here you go.[10:52] Enter a giant, inexplica...
Ode to a Failed Starter 9 Aug 2012 | 10:01 am
O! Sourdough Starter, So flat, so sluggish. I fed you well, With flour and water, And love. All for naught. At first you smelled yeasty, A bouquet of bready promise, Until your scent blossomed Into so...
'Murca. 7 Aug 2012 | 10:46 am
I did, in fact, take advantage of this down-time to bake some bread. I've even got some sourdough yeast currently culturing in the kitchen! After the first day it smelled, according to the Wife, "lik...
A new chapter. 3 Aug 2012 | 11:47 pm
Good Christ, it's done. Six years of graduate school, now finished. That's three years of course-work, one year of studying for qualifying exams and another two years to write the dissertation. Now...
And with that, I'm a doctor. 3 Aug 2012 | 08:24 am
Nothing else to say, folks. I made it.
Fifty Shades... 20 Jun 2012 | 08:56 pm
Someone explained Fifty Shades of Grey to me like this: The author originally wrote volumes of smutty Twilight fan-fiction that envisioned the two main characters in an extensive BDSM relationship. ...
Home Stretch 18 Jun 2012 | 08:55 pm
You know what I've learned? It's nearly impossible to finish a dissertation and regularly update a blog at the same time. Huh. I'm nearly finished. I'm turning in my final draft in less than two w...
How hard can it be? 1 May 2012 | 07:36 am
This midterm is going to be a goddamned bloodbath, and they've brought it on themselves. My Roman Lit course has about fifty people enrolled. I haven't had more than thirty show up since day two. N...
Well, *that* happened. 27 Apr 2012 | 03:36 am
If I had written anything in the past month, it would have read only: Ohgodohgodohgodohgod!!!!!! So let's back up a bit. Before the "Ohgodohgod" business. Back to March, when all of the ads for 1 y...
True story, bro. 4 Apr 2012 | 01:47 am
In what sounds like the set-up to a joke, yet isn't: "A senior classics prof goes to the annual APA meeting..." Struck by the realization that the conference hotel hosted dozens (if not hundreds) of ...
