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The house, far from the city
Among large plans and changes: British citizenship, Zürich training, a big financial transfer – and small: a new jacket and shoes, a trip to northern Italy paid for by the the university, and most startling a re-engagement with two research projects that had dropped off the radar (just as though I were as productive as…
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Anniversary 4
Four years of this blog – and you'll pardon me for writing so few entries over the past four months; I promise I haven't stopped writing completely. In fact, next week I'm in Milan and Parma for a trip to our exchange partners; I was naturally a bit intimidated by going to northern Italy wearing…
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Writing and hearing
Working on a presentation about Derek Jarman's last films, for Wednesday. After much procrastination, aided by the calm, dull backwaters of the Easter holiday. And, amid brief frustrations as to exact dates, processes unrecorded, I realize I am enjoying myself: while making dinner in the kitchen, I say aloud to no one: But this is…
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Spring
And finally, here it is, what we've been waiting for. Nearly a week after Easter (and apparently this year Roman Easter and Greek Easter were the same day, which is in itself a fairly weird result of changing calendars and seasons). A young father, slightly anxious-looking but in a light t-shirt, walks with a child…
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Cornell
[By which I don't mean the upstate New York university, where my nephew – hi, Ben, how are you? – is finishing his freshman year…. Which brings us to a peripheral tale, before I even get into the point of this blog entry: I told my sister, and have joked to several friends (sorry, Ben)…
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Making
A tutorial with a smart but thus far undisciplined masters student, where I was quite definite about the draft paper he'd sent me – I thought it was chaotic and touched on an unmanageable array of topics, and said so. Fortunately he didn't seem to mind, and went home to rewrite the whole thing (not…
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Paul Attinello 