Library Sleep

I always dream when I sleep at the library.  Today I fell asleep and I thought that David had bought an 18 foot alligator.  It was so awkward, too, because he was so proud that he’d bought it for $2000.  He thought it was such a good deal and all I could think was “that’s [...]

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North Wind

We’ve got wind from the North tonight that is cool and makes it seem like summers gone to fall.  This is very pleasant, because this year I will be home in September.  Also, this year, the fall will fade into a rainy winter that will make sense.  I’m okay with going from California.

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Financial Aid Survey

The financial aid exit survey tells me I’m $118,000 in debt.  I was expecting to be $16,000 in debt and found this alarming.  I inquired, and I am in fact $11,000 in debt; they don’t know why it said the other number. 
The front desk man at financial aid is very freindly and has always been helpful, [...]

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Hamster

My Mother: How are things there?
Me: Not much is up. (Meanwhile, my father is waving the dog behind my mother; I can see through the skype internet camera).
My Mother: How’s the Hebster? (She means David, because he’s in Israel. She usually says “What’s up in the Holy Land”.)
Me: He’s fine.
My [...]

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Suit

It’s nice to present my thesis tomorrow because I get to wear a suit.
It’s not nice because I have to write a presentation.

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Onions

Me: How’s Ontario, Oregon.
My Father:  It’s alright. It smells like onions. Which is okay. It’s not bad, it’s just a bit annoying, you know, like the smell of onions. You drive into town and you think “oh, I’m in Ontario. There are the onions.”
Me: Well, does it make your eyes water.
My Father: No, it just [...]

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Technical Difficulties

Me: What’s up there?
My Father: I’m just up over here in Ontario, Oregon.  Right up towards Idaho.
Me: Mhm.
My Father: It’s difficult, because we have an electronic thing that records the trials, and they told me the set up was different in Ontario because I didn’t need to bring everything, I just needed to bring the [...]

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Punctuation

Isn’t it confusing how, in the last post, the commas were inside the quotation marks.  I don’t know.  That’s just how it’s done at Pomona, but as soon as I’m out of here I’m going with regular MLA style.  Yep.

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The Boys

My Mother:  I think your father looks forward to David coming.
Me: Why?
My Mother: I think he likes to think there are boys in the house.  I came home and I found a note telling me that he’d taken the dogs (Chauncy-Akbar and Oscar) running, but it didn’t say “I’ve taken the dogs running,” it said [...]

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King’s College Website

It’s very very difficult to find anything on King’s College website.  I think they only accepted the inevitability of the internet this year (way to hold out, guys), and so it’s not very effective yet.  This leads to tremendous gaps in their efficiency.

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Allergy Medicine

Alirgies make me sleepy and so it’s difficult to work.  In a tragic combindation, alergy medicine has a similar effect, though it gets rid of my allergies.

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Democratic Debate

My Mother: I said to your grandfather “Did you watch the democratic debate?” and he said “No, I didn’t know there was a democratic debate; I wish I would’ve known, I’d have watched it.”  Then when we got in the car your father said to your grandfather “Did you watch the democratic debate?” and your [...]

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English Department T-Shirt

If Professor Kunin had a t-shirt, it would say “Hermeneutics is the grandfather of grammar…and much more”.  He told me so himself.

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The Astral World and The Human Aura

Me:  I got these swami books.
My father: What?
Me: It was free-old-paper-back books at the library day, and I got two little guide books on how to be a swami.  They’re  called The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms and The Astral World: It’s Scenes, Dwellers, and Phenomena.   They say “true occult knowledge gives you [...]

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Gasoline in Oregon

In Oregon we can’t put gasoline in our own cars.  The gasoline station attendant has to do it for us, which makes sense, because they’re trained and gasoline is highly flammable.  On the other hand, they’re not trained very well and we’ve handicapped ourselves in this way, so that we can’t function outside Oregon.  It’s [...]

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Article

I’m working hard to transform a chapter of my thesis into an article.  This is not quite true.  I’m working to transform a chapter of my thesis into an article, but it shouldn’t really be described as working hard yet.  When it’s an article, I’ll let you know where you can read it.

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Thesis

There’re very few weblog worthy conversations these days, because everyone is tied up in thesis.  Pesach is coming up, though, and that should make for some good stories.

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Stress

It’s been a long day and I’ve been worrying a lot and haven’t been able to sleep.  However, it all seems better now, I’ve gotten work done, and some of my worry is mitigated.  I’ll sleep tonight.

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Monday

Today Harvard was snippy with me, as was the CDO, making deferral seem very possible but a bit annoying.  Also, Harvard sent me admissions stuff today (four weeks after I’m admitted) that they want back by Friday, which is a bit of a hassle.
Today I’m not elected graduation speaker (which is okay and saves me [...]

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Blue Truck

I drive my grandfather’s car while I’m here, but at home I drive a little blue 1979 Datsan pick-up truck with a sticker that says “Vetrans of Guam”  in the window and also a sticker that says “OSU”, and which doesn’t start with a key anymore because the key thing fell out, but which you [...]

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$11.75

Me:  If this costs less than $11.75 I can pay in cash.  Let’s see.
Clerk:  Good luck. 
Me: I think it’ll be over.  I think that dang nabbed lotion is going to put it over.
Cash Register:  $11.74.
Me: Rock on.

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Stetson

So my grandfather had this hat…
Bernice bought a $200 Stetson for my cowboy grandfather.  It’s not that suprising; he visits her in Arizona every year.  She’s his cousin and she used to ride horses with him out in Eastern Oregon when they were kids.  She gets tired of him sometimes, but for the most part [...]

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Election

In a bold and weird move, the graduation speaker election has been fixed.  This makes it nearly impossible for me to speak at either graduation or class day; I’ve sent a diplomatic e-mail, but unless it is fixed I probably won’t win.  The election was postponed previously because it disadvantaged candidates who were from similar [...]

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Squirrels

There are more and more squirrels these days.  Most of Early Modern Lyric I spend looking out the window behind Professor Kunin, watching the squirrel that runs back and forth on the telephone wire outside his office, and while running in recent days I’ve noticed that squirrels are having a hard time not challenging me.  [...]

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Lucky Divers

Lucky Divers, of Eilat, Israel, is a dive center where they’ll teach you how to S.C.U.B.A dive and will take you on diving expeditions.  Their slogan is:
Lucky Divers: the best way into the Red Sea since Moses.
I think it’s pretty funny.

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English Department T-Shirt

We’re trying to think of a slogan for the English Department t-shirt.  We can’t think of anything, though there are many isolated quotations from Kunin and Mann that seem good.  Remember when Professor Mann said “maybe we’re lucky and it’s the world ending” when the lights flashed?  Remember that Professor Kunin’s complaint about Yoko Ono [...]

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Beauty

Someone’s away message says is an unattributed quotation that says “I wish I were beautiful and full of rage!” (It’s okay about the punctuation inside the quotation mark; that’s how she does it and I’m fine with representing the quotation in that manner if it represents the actual intonation of the sentence. I think [...]

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Tristram Shandy

The last weblog (thematicallyconsistant.wordpress.com) is being put in a paper on Tristram Shandy and other non-linear narratives.  Yee-haw. 

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What We’re Doing

Yesterday, as I walked with Big Joe (who I talk to at most twice a year) I asked what he’s doing next year. He reported that he’s moving to New York to be a consultant.  I said, teasing “oh, you’re one of that set,” (I know, it doesn’t make sense to have the comma inside the [...]

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Mt. St. Helen’s

My Mother: Dad wants to know if you and David love each other. Yes he does. He says he doesn’t but he does.
Me: I’m not going to respond.
My Mother (to my father): She’s not going to respond to your question. (To me) He says that wasn’t his question, anyway, but it was, I know it [...]

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