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WAD
Sorry I didn't comment on World AIDS Day, or attach a speech as I have for the past five years. My reasons: it was a very long day – successful but long – and I ended up not using the speech I'd prepared; what I did say wasn't written down. An all-day conference, largely organized…
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Enrage
[It's some months since I showed up at meetings of the University writing group; most of my classes and seminars this semester have ended at 1 p.m., and then of course people have questions, etc.; so crossing the University to be fifteen or twenty minutes late for a meeting that last less than an hour…
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Craic
A lovely one-day-late Thanksgiving: Bennett cooking, Merrie setting everything up; I brought Annie with me; Michelle and her husband came, plus two of our new postgraduates from the US. A gorgeous evening, good food, endless laughter, lots of stories, everyone seemed engaged right up to the hilt – just what a social life should be…
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Bum roll
As I unpack the groceries, delivered to my doorstep, I discover that instead of nine rolls of toilet paper I have received twelve, three of them emblazoned with a yellow stripe as Bargain Extras. And I remember the old woman in San Francisco: when I was living in the ratty, drug-dealer-infested apartment house on Market…
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Post-Pacific
Possibly the worst mistake of my post-Pacific years – since 2002, that is; since I have no longer lived in my beloved San Francisco, in Los Angeles, in Hong Kong, since I was kicked out of Australia – is inanely watching television. I used to watch television very little; since the collapse of my Aussie…
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Sudden dimnesses
Worrisome news from Paris. M. is not well, in a way that too much resembles my experience this summer. Which cannot possibly be contagious…. And in the back of my mind, as I continue to work rapidly through the plans for the book with Gerhard, is a worry: if I do indeed move forward through…
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