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Saturday, March 27, 2004

Hey, was that a hiatus?

One week without a new post, well, yes, I guess you could call that a hiatus.  Add to that the fact that the week of March 15-19 was full of half-posts and as-yet-unfulfilled promises, and you’d have to conclude that I’ve hit that deadly part of the semester when it suddenly becomes impossible to find fifteen spare minutes in a day.

The weird thing is that the real crunch time was mid-February to mid-March, during which I had to write two talks and one essay while teaching and parenting and travelling on three consecutive weekends (which is quite clearly a violation of the human rights provisions of the Articles of Academic Coupledom-- many thanks to Janet for holding down the fort).  Then, over “spring” “break” (it never got over 30 degrees, and it wasn’t a break) I graded my undergraduate essays and got ready for a pair of talks at Columbia . . . and then, finally, this week I was free! 

But not really.  I was four weeks behind in responding to mini-papers from my graduate seminar, and for some reason I had no trouble blogging when I was supposed to be writing my talks and my essay, but this week I simply couldn’t leap back into the blogosphere until I’d caught up with my own seminar.  But (pant, pant) I did manage to catch up-- in fact, this evening I managed to clean the damn refrigerator.  If that isn’t caught up, I don’t know what is-- oh yes, the cars need to be cleaned inside and out after a long nasty winter.  Curses.  Then again, Janet and I have managed to go dancing three times in the past week, which is roughly three times more than we’d managed between the years 2001-03, and she just happens to be a fabulous dancer, so it’s not like I’m devoting all my time to Good Works.

Anyway, I really will get back to current affairs and matters academic this week, and I’ll even make good on a couple of past promises, too.  In the meantime, I suggest you visit Adam Kotsko’s site and check the zone-flooding Adam et al. have orchestrated in response to one of those delightful professors who tells his students that gay marriage is a contradiction in terms because 50 percent of gay men have over 500 sexual partners, and so forth.  Flood!  Flood!

Posted by Michael on 03/27 at 02:04 PM
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