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Happy Friday and First Day of February! George Eliot Letters, Shine Blowdry Bar Pedicure and Fun Weekend in LA with Play at the Geffen and Time with Florida Friends
It’s what everyone says but there’s a reason for this: I can’t believe today is the first day of February! Where did January go? For me it went to dance, the symphony, LA, Dad’s bronchitis, the SBAC pool and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Babe Walker, class, death gardens, depression, grad school, happiness, memoir, nyc, Shine Blowdry Bar
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Gloomy Monday in Santa Barbara Brightened by Lunch at Fresco and Musings on the Literary-Critical Landscape of UCSB English in the 1990s (Another Victorian Chick Ars Critica)
Gloomy gray days don’t bother me; I find them oddly comforting and generally energizing but not today. I am loving the Trader Joe’s mango Greek Yogurt, 5.5 ounces and 120 calories and will go for a big swim and … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, School, UCSB, Uncategorized
Tagged book reviews, books and arts, chaucer's books, christopher benfrey, claim of reason, cultural studies, depression, emily dickinson and the problem of others, ethical criticism aesthetics, fresco of santa barbara, grad school, henry james, in pursuit of the ordinary, julie carlson, kant, kantians, kay young, louise fradenberg, martha nussbaum, new criticism, new historicism, paul guyer, philadelphia junto, philip terzian, philosophy and literature, stanley cavell, ucsb, weekly standard, yale school of criticism
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Happy Pre-NYC/DC Trip Friday! Photo Blog from San Francisco and Auburn 40th Birthday Trip with Trip-Inspired Grad School Reflections
Friday, 9:30 AM. I have been up on Facebook and chat since 5:30. I do not usually arise this early but this is the second day in a row up before 6:40, my internal clock’s preferred wake-up time. J and … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Philosophy, Relationships, School, Television, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 40th birthday, application to grad school, auburn, birthday, book reviews, brian fischler, brutality of academia, californication, cross country skiing, depression, dissertation, garwood's, grad school, irvine, journalism, lake tahoe, laugh for sight, law school, literary theory, luigi dance center, monkey cat, new york city, orange county, person of interest, rutgers, san francisco, smash, snow, the weekly standard, toddlers, ucla, ucsb, washington dc, west los angeles, white collar, yale
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“You seem so normal! What happened to you?”: A Partial, Intellectual Answer to a Frequent Question
I got an IM on FB from a very good friend up in Oregon, a Republican lawyer with a wife and children. He’s a smart and fun guy and we enjoy chatting on FB. He asked: “Did you get rescued … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, UCSB, Yale
Tagged aesthetics, analytic and continental philosophy, barbie dolls, beautiful, beauty, carol rovane, deconstruction, depression, dissertation writing, elizabeth bishop, feminist critics, gender studies, geoffrey hartman, grad school, kant, katherine philips, lacanian theory, letters on the aesthetic education of man, literary criticism, morality, on moral personhood, paul de man, paul fry, philosophical criticism, play, richard eldridge, sara suleri, schiller, wsecs conference
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