Archive for May 2012 | Monthly archive page
For Christmas he gave me an Italian map and the generous gift of a vacation wherever I wanted to go…(with the gentle suggestion that he thought Tuscany would suit me well). He was right. As he so often is. :) Grazie PS: and of course the trip has had more than a few trains–from the [...]
Monday morning I found myself in Zurich, as an unexpected but pleasant detour on my Europe trip. It was the day that the full force of jet lag hit me, so I was walking around in more than a bit of a mental fog. Fortunately as I breakfasted with a local friend (@chanson), she showed [...]
Sunset from the upstairs window of our villa (sososopretty) #europe2012 http://t.co/hqbzO8fZ # Under the Tuscan sun #europe2012 http://t.co/nKB0B9fS # Lunch: wild boar panini, Rosso vino, thimble of coffee w/this view http://t.co/ZtJQGJ5Z # Next challenge for the day: I'm taking to the streets myself (renting a car for wandering Tuscany). #scaryscary #europe2012 # Riding in my [...]
Just booked the Mason Inn for #THATCamp @chnm #madeitoffthewaitinglist Looking forward to long evenings at The Well w/DH friends! :) # Big choppy swell made for a fun ride tonite! #somuchbetterthanarollercoaster #outrigger # The finger-counting begins (5 days until #europe2012 ! http://t.co/Y3Ey81cN # Airline passengers as explained by their pants: http://t.co/WlMpXYVn (of course I always [...]
I was filling in the template for my dissertation file last night. As I typed up the dedication page, I was pretty humbled by all of the people that I wanted to name–those who listened and read and helped and were just there when I needed them. (really friends, you are amazing and I owe [...]
Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other. –Donna Haraway
"No one teaches us the value of failure when we're in graduate school" great article w/a nod to the digital humanities: http://t.co/d32GIeqd # How Los Angeles cured the stigma of her divorce (resonates w/ my experience in many ways): http://t.co/hVAEmLb1 # Some reading for my train trip to Venice (thx Steve!) @ North Star Beach [...]
Ten years ago I took the first steps to something important, this becoming-a-doctor thing. It’s so close now, that the last step is consuming all of my mental energy and my discretionary time. In the midst of it all I’ve left emails unresponded-to, missed appointments with friends, and have been a bit short-tempered in situations [...]
Deforming the Humanities: "Can twitter replace the scholarly sofa?" http://t.co/k1PaKuAv # From _Fascinating Womanhood_, a chart explaining the kind of woman a man wants: http://t.co/dFe324fH # Wishing I had a spare $80k for this amazing knee (w/a gyroscope & accelerometer!) http://t.co/gdHdAfpb #lifeofacyborg # Here's a good summary of global disease trends (bc of vaccination programs): [...]
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