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• For anyone who has every longed for Greece:

  June 13, 2007

    Ithaka  As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, Angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as...

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• For Perspective

  February 24, 2007

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• Minus Three Teeth

  December 21, 2006

  Well, the wisdom teeth are out and all that goes along with that.  I came to the frightening realization today that if all goes according to plan after I leave on the 2nd of January I will not be back in st. louis again until the middle of  August.  I suppose this is all somehow&he...

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• Henry James and Helene Cixous

  December 2, 2006

  Strange bedfellows...it there ever were any.  Yes, I'm still alive...though at the rate this cold is hitting me, only marginally so.  I have a 12-15 page paper due tomorrow, a 5-8 page paper due Tuesday and a linguistics final on Thursday.  The first paper is actually going well *f...

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• Yesterday’s Cornfields

  July 23, 2006

  Have you ever decided that cornfields were fascinating and suddenly found it to be so?  In the three hundred mile stretch between Chicago and St. Louis they are certainly hard to miss, but I am no longer with the camp of those who groan and say, “not another cornfield.”  Cor...

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• Q: What do you get when

  June 5, 2006

  you cross Locke, Rousseau and theories of education?A: A headacheFinals week...yes I know the world is mostly all finished, but at the few hold outs of the quarter system the school year is just now starting to come to a close.  I still have about 25 pages to write (this is on top of the&hel...

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• Brief sojourn into STL

  May 7, 2006

  I will be in town on Saturday May 20th (I'm back for real on June 11th, but I have to come home in order to train/learn magic tricks).  Anyone free and interested in having dinner with me?  Likewise, anyone interested in writing some or all of the 50 pages that I have to complete before...

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• Hanging by a Deadline

  March 15, 2006

  Finals before spring break...it's not pretty.  Betwen now and 3 p.m. tomorrow i need to write 10-12 pages of literary analysis on how the compassion that chekhov shows towards his characters does or does not translate into english.  Perhaps i should stop typing in here and start on that...

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• Flying Pancakes

  December 31, 2005

  As i drive down this street with tears streaming down my face, which of course is no good for driving, i wonder what it is i've done.  But this is a new year.  His mother gave me cookies...and i felt like a rotten human being.  But this is a new year.  I spent last night…

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